2025.07.04: The Bad Pickle

Burnie and Ashley discuss best cookout dishes, fake foods, fireworks, ChatGPT cults, snakes on planes, dryer snakes, and Burnie’s Switch 2 revelation.
  
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GLOW Still Stings

• ‘GLOW’ Season 4: Canceled After 3 Seasons on Netflix
• ‘GLOW’ Season 4: Spoilers, Photos from Cancelled Netflix Series
• GLOW cancelled by Netflix as fourth and final season gets axed | Metro News

Blue LED

• How Blue LEDs Work, and Why They Deserve the Physics Nobel | NOVA | PBS
• The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics – Press release – NobelPrize.org
• Invention of blue LEDs wins physics Nobel – BBC News
• History of display technology – Wikipedia

Snakes on a Plane

• Snake on a plane delays a flight in Australia | AP News
• Snakes on a Plane (2006) – IMDb
• Australia’s 10 most dangerous snakes
• Dendrelaphis punctulatus – Wikipedia
• Are Baby Snakes Really More Dangerous Than Adults? — Asclepius Snakebite Foundation
• Rat snake – Wikipedia

Jalapeno Poppers

• The Best Jalapeno Popper Recipe | How to Make Jalapeno Poppers

AI vs Marriage

• This man says ChatGPT sparked a ‘spiritual awakening.’ His wife says it threatens their marriage | CNN Business
• Anthropic’s new AI model turns to blackmail when engineers try to take it offline | TechCrunch
• AI in charge of vending machine hallucinates trip to The Simpsons’ house & loses money – Dexerto

Switch 2 Sells a Lot

• Nintendo has now sold over 5 million Nintendo Switch 2 consoles worldwide – My Nintendo News