2025.07.18: Social Killed The Reality Star

Burnie and Ben King talk about reality TV, the Studio, $200,000,0000 AI Engineers, Meta’s track record at acquisitions, Threads, artificial paramours, Reddit’s iron fisted rules, Rooster Teeth website stats, and rolling with punches.
  
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TV Talk

• Love Island
• ‘Love Island’ UK vs USA: The Biggest Differences Between the Shows
• The Traitors (British TV series) – Wikipedia
• Parks and Recreation – Wikipedia
• Nathan for You – Wikipedia
• Nathan For You – Claw of Shame – The Event
• ‘Nathan For You’ Gas Station Owner Talks About Drinking Grandson’s Pee (VIDEO) | HuffPost UK Comedy
• “The Studio” The Oner (TV Episode 2025) – IMDb
• The Amazing Race 28 – Wikipedia
• The Apprentice (British TV series) – Wikipedia
• Unreal (TV series) – Wikipedia

AI Bubble

• Meta poaches Apple AI engineer Ruoming Pang: Meta’s shocking $200 million offer to this Apple AI engineer is blowing minds — meet Ruoming Pang – The Economic Times
• Former OpenAI Exec Mira Murati’s Startup Raises $2 Bn At $12 Bn Valuation – BW Businessworld
• Elon Musk’s AI Chatbot Responds As ‘MechaHitler’
• Elon Musk’s Grok releases two new ‘AI companions,’ including an anime girlfriend | Euronews
• SpaceX to invest $2 billion in Musk’s xAI startup, WSJ reports

Conservative Youth

• Is Gen Z the most conservative generation in history? – New Statesman

Digital Assets

• Treasury’s Bessent says US should be ‘premier destination’ for digital assets
• Largest Mars rock ever sells for $4.3m bid at auction – BBC News
• Pak’s Experimental Ethereum NFT Drop ‘Merge’ Sells for Nearly $92M – Decrypt
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Ben’s Dancefloor

• Dancefloor: The global home of dance music