Clown Cast

Joey Musselman
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Podcasts about whatever I find interesting — history, tech, weird rabbit holes. I was making these for myself anyway, so I figured I'd share. Research by Claude, produced with NotebookLM, deployed by tools built using Claude Code. Orchestrated by a clown. Enjoy.

  1. 18h ago

    The Ejection Ritual: Theater, Rage, and Sideline Strategy

    When Bobby Cox got ejected 162 times in his managerial career, he wasn't losing control—he was executing strategy. But was it genuine anger, calculated theater, or something weirder that's all three at once? We compare the sideline meltdowns of baseball managers like Earl Weaver with beach volleyball's ref confrontations (featuring Karch Kiraly's famous net-pulling incident and Evan Cory's recent AVP complaints) to explore why the line between authentic rage and choreographed performance might not matter as much as we think. 00:00 - Opening: Bobby Cox and the 162 ejections 02:30 - Earl Weaver's signature moves and ejection tradition 05:00 - The central question: Theater, strategy, or genuine rage? 10:00 - Comparing baseball to beach volleyball dynamics 12:00 - Karch Kiraly, Evan Cory, and the AVP ref wars 15:00 - Why the ambiguity actually makes it work --- Sources & further reading: • Roland Barthes — "The World of Wrestling" from Mythologies (1957) — (widely reprinted; PDF available via santiago.bz) • Steven J. Hyde & Meghan Thornton-Lugo — "Two Wrongs Trying to Make a Right: Makeup Calls Are Common for MLB Umpires" — Journal of Applied Psychology (2022): https://theconversation.com/two-wrongs-trying-to-make-a-right-makeup-calls-are-common-for-mlb-umpires-financial-analysts-and-probably-you-188968 • Pitcher List — "Manager Ejections as Performance Art": https://pitcherlist.com/manager-ejections-as-performance-art/ • Michael Lopez (Skidmore College) — NFL sideline influence study (2016) — reported by NPR: and FiveThirtyEight: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/nfl-coaches-yell-at-refs-because-it-freakin-works: https://www.npr.org/2016/11/03/500480083/study-nfl-referees-a-influenced-by-coaches-and-players-sideline-yelling • Dartmouth Sports Analytics — "Rile Them Up: Do MLB Managerial Ejections Affect Game Score?" (January 2025): https://sites.dartmouth.edu/sportsanalytics/2025/01/24/rile-them-up-do-mlb-managerial-ejections-affect-game-score/ • Gershon Tenenbaum, Ady Vigodsky, Assaf Lev — "Coaches' Mind Games" — Behavioral Sciences Vol. 13 No. 11 (2023): https://www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/13/11/904 • SABR — "Baseball's Most Ejected Managers": https://sabr.org/latest/burke-baseballs-most-ejected-managers/ • SABR — "Earl Weaver: Strategy, Innovation, and Ninety-Four Meltdowns": https://sabr.org/journal/article/earl-weaver-strategy-innovation-and-ninety-four-meltdowns/ • Baseball-Reference — Career ejection leaders: https://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/mgr_ejections_career.shtml • Suzanne Lowry — "Q&A with an AVP Referee" — AVP.com: https://avp.com/news/qa-with-an-avp-referee/ • AVP — "What's the Difference Between Olympic and AVP Beach Volleyball Rules?": https://avp.com/news/whats-the-difference-between-olympic-and-avp-beach-volleyball-rules/ • Caitlin Adams — "Kayfabe as Framework for Interactive Texts" — Convergence (2026): https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13548565261439169 • National Theatre of Japan — "Mie (Kabuki Performance Poses)": https://www2.ntj.jac.go.jp/dglib/contents/learn/edc25/en/performance-poses/mie.html • Eric Simons — The Secret Lives of Sports Fans: The Science of Sports Obsession — Overlook Press (2013) • Journal of the Philosophy of Sport — "The Moral Ambiguity of the Makeup Call" — Vol. 38, No. 2 (2011): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00948705.2011.10510423 • FIVB — 2025 Beach Volleyball Video Challenge System Regulations: https://www.fivb.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/2025-Beach-Volleyball-Video-Challenge-System-Regulations_Mar-2025.pdf • Volleyballmag.com — AVP Chicago Open coverage (Budinger-Crabb shove): https://volleyballmag.com/avp-chicago-open-090222/ • SANDCAST Podcast — "Find Something. Play it. Win it." (Evan Cory episode): https://sandcastvolleyball.com/find-something-play-it-win-it-evan-corys-patience-adaptability-is-paying-off/ This podcast episode was fully generated by AI — research, script, voices, and production. Built with Claude, Piper TTS, and automated pipeline tooling.

  2. 21h ago

    Built It, Saw It, Said No: The Inertia Trap

    Kodak invented the digital camera and shelved it. Blockbuster passed on Netflix for $50 million. Nokia knew touchscreens were the future. These aren't stories of ignorance—they're stories of organizations watching themselves fail to adapt despite having all the information, talent, and resources they needed. 0:00 - The paradox: Kodak, Blockbuster, Nokia, and Intel 1:15 - Kodak's digital camera invention shelved to protect film revenue 3:45 - Blockbuster rejecting Netflix for $50 million 5:15 - Nokia's internal reports on touchscreen futures ignored 7:00 - Intel's market share collapse: 61% to 11% in three years 9:30 - Why institutional inertia is more terrifying than blindness --- Sources & further reading: • Michael T. Hannan & John Freeman — "Structural Inertia and Organizational Change," American Sociological Review 49(2), 1984: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228314327_Structural_Inertia_And_Organizational_Change • Barbara Levitt & James G. March — "Organizational Learning," Annual Review of Sociology 14, 1988: https://sjbae.pbworks.com/f/levitt_march_1988.pdf • Paul DiMaggio & Walter Powell — "The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields," American Sociological Review 48(2), 1983: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/255482957_The_Iron_Cage_Revisted_Institutional_Isomorphism_and_Collective_Rationality_in_Organizational_Fields • William Samuelson & Richard Zeckhauser — "Status Quo Bias in Decision Making," Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 1(1), 1988 • Hal Arkes & Catherine Blumer — "The Psychology of Sunk Cost," Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 35(1), 1985: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/4812596_The_psychology_of_sunk_cost • Mark Hughes — "Do 70 Per Cent of All Organizational Change Initiatives Really Fail?" Journal of Change Management 11(4), 2011: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233202794_Do_70_Per_Cent_of_All_Organizational_Change_Initiatives_Really_Fail • Diane Vaughan — The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA, University of Chicago Press, 1996 • Steven Ten Have — "Why Vilifying the Status Quo Can Derail a Change Effort," Journal of Change Management 22(4), 2022: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14697017.2022.2137835 • Russell Reynolds Associates — "Why Organizational Inertia Is Killing Your Transformation," 2024: https://www.russellreynolds.com/en/insights/articles/why-organizational-inertia-is-killing-your-transformation • McKinsey & Company — "How to Double the Odds That Your Change Program Will Succeed," 2015: https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/people-and-organizational-performance/our-insights/how-to-double-the-odds-that-your-change-program-will-succeed • Anders Ericsson — "The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance," Psychological Review 100(3), 1993 This podcast episode was fully generated by AI — research, script, voices, and production. Built with Claude, Piper TTS, and automated pipeline tooling.

  3. 1d ago

    The Messy Path to Perfect Sets

    Why does beach volleyball obsess over hand form when the most accurate craftspeople in history had wildly variable techniques? We explore Nicolai Bernstein's groundbreaking 1930s study of blacksmiths—where the hammer hit dead-center every time despite completely different arm paths—and what this reveals about volleyball setting, basketball shot form, and the real secret to mastering a skill. 00:00:00 - Intro: FIVB's Double Contact Rule Trial 02:30 - The Hand-Setting Obsession Problem 05:00 - Nicolai Bernstein's Psychiography Experiment 09:00 - The Paradox: Variability Masks Consistency 12:00 - From Blacksmiths to Volleyball Courts 15:30 - Why Technique Fixation Fails This podcast episode was fully generated by AI — research, script, voices, and production. Built with Claude, Piper TTS, and automated pipeline tooling.

  4. 1d ago

    The Magic Phrase That Broke Science

    Why does 'a study found' turn any claim into fact? We investigate how bad journalism, worse universities, and one deliberate hoax reveal that the pipeline from research to headlines has almost zero quality filters—and why the public's mental model of how science actually works is completely broken. 0:00 - Intro: The Magic Phrase 2:30 - Coffee Prevents Cancer? Screen Time Destroys Your Brain? 5:45 - The Chocolate Hoax: One Journalist's Proof of a Broken System 9:15 - University Press Releases: Where Real Science Becomes Propaganda 15:00 - Your Brain's Broken Mental Model of How Science Works --- Sources & further reading: • Petroc Sumner, Chris Chambers et al. — "The association between exaggeration in health related science news and academic press releases": https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4262123/ • John Ioannidis — "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False": https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124 • Open Science Collaboration — "Estimating the Reproducibility of Psychological Science": https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aac4716 • Nicholas Light, Philip Fernbach et al. — "Knowledge overconfidence is associated with anti-consensus views on controversial scientific issues": https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abo0038 • John Bohannon — "I Fooled Millions Into Thinking Chocolate Helps Weight Loss": https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/05/29/410609184/trickster-journalist-explains-why-he-duped-the-media-on-chocolate-study • Ben Goldacre — Bad Science (2008): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Science_(Goldacre_book • Ben Goldacre — AllTrials campaign: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllTrials • Heinz Valtin — "'Drink at least eight glasses of water a day.' Really? Is there scientific evidence for '8 × 8'?": https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/health-nutrition/water-myth • Paul Bogdan — "A decade of replication crisis: examining trends in fragile p-values": https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/25152459251323480 • Jon Miller / University of Michigan — Survey on public science literacy: https://record.umich.edu/articles/survey-shows-public-interest-science-high-literacy-constant/ • Pew Research Center — "What the Public Knows and Does Not Know About Science": https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2015/09/10/what-the-public-knows-and-does-not-know-about-science/ • Cancer Research UK — "Absolute versus relative risk": https://news.cancerresearchuk.org/2013/03/15/absolute-versus-relative-risk-making-sense-of-media-stories/ • American Marketing Association — "Playing the Broken Phone Game": https://www.ama.org/2022/04/12/playing-the-broken-phone-game-how-successive-news-retelling-distorts-information-and-emphasizes-negativity/ • Royal Society — "Big little lies: a compendium and simulation of p-hacking strategies": https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article/10/2/220346/92017/Big-little-lies-a-compendium-and-simulation-of-p • Nieman Lab — "COVID-19 accelerated the media's reporting on early, drafty scientific research": https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/04/covid-19-accelerated-the-medias-reporting-on-early-drafty-scientific-research-for-better-and-for-worse/ • STAT News — Surgisphere/Lancet retraction: https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/04/lancet-retracts-major-covid-19-paper-that-raised-safety-concerns-about-malaria-drugs/ • Science — "Many scientists citing two scandalous COVID-19 papers ignore their retractions": https://www.science.org/content/article/many-scientists-citing-two-scandalous-covid-19-papers-ignore-their-retractions • OECD PISA — Science literacy data: https://www.oecd.org/en/topics/sub-issues/science-literacy.html • Richard Feynman — "Cargo Cult Science" (1974 Caltech commencement) This podcast episode was fully generated by AI — research, script, voices, and production. Built with Claude, Piper TTS, and automated pipeline tooling.

  5. 2d ago

    Mountains in Song: How Folk Turned Peaks Into Poetry

    Mountains inspire more than tourism and architecture—they inspire songs that outlive their makers. We explore three folk classics that transformed mountain imagery, starting with the dark true story behind "Big Rock Candy Mountain" and its origins in hobo culture. From Harry McClintock's exploitative paradise to Doc Watson's "Old Mountain Dew" and Shirley Collins' "Hares on the Mountain," each version rewrites the mountain myth for a new generation and a new need. 00:00 - Intro: When people sing at mountains 02:15 - Big Rock Candy Mountain: Hobos, jokers, and the uncensored original 05:45 - The Cockaigne tradition: Medieval fantasies of paradise 08:30 - Old Mountain Dew and Doc Watson: Appalachian folk remixes 11:20 - Hares on the Mountain: Shirley Collins and the English tradition 14:10 - Folk as a container: How songs stay alive by changing --- Sources & further reading: • Elijah Wald — "Big Rock Candy Mountain (Mac McClintock / censorship)": https://www.elijahwald.com/songblog/big-rock-candy/ • English Folk Dance and Song Society — "Cecil Sharp's Appalachian diaries": https://www.efdss.org/vwml-digitised-resources/cecil-sharps-appalachian-diaries • tnocs — "One Song, Three Lifetimes: Shirley Collins and 'Hares On The Mountain'": https://tnocs.com/one-song-three-lifetimes-shirley-collins-and-hares-on-the-mountain/ • Songfacts — "The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Harry McClintock": https://www.songfacts.com/facts/harry-mcclintock/the-big-rock-candy-mountain • Wikipedia — "The Big Rock Candy Mountains": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Rock_Candy_Mountains • Library of Congress — "Big Rock Candy Mountains": https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200197158 • Utterly Interesting — "Harry 'Haywire Mac' McClintock and The Dark Side of Big Rock Candy Mountain": https://www.utterlyinteresting.com/post/harry-haywire-mac-mcclintock-and-the-dark-side-of-big-rock-candy-mountain • Travalanche — "Haywire Mac and The Big Rock Candy Mountain": https://travsd.wordpress.com/2023/10/08/haywire-mac-and-the-big-rock-candy-mountains/ • Wikipedia — "Good Old Mountain Dew": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Old_Mountain_Dew • Asheville Museum of History — "February 6, 1928: Lunsford Records 'Good Old Mountain Dew'": https://www.ashevillehistory.org/february-6-1928-lunsford-records-good-old-mountain-dew/ • Radford University Appalachian Music and Culture — "Bascom Lamar Lunsford": https://mozart.radford.edu/amc/index.php/2012/01/10/bascom-lamar-lunsford-the-man-who-wrote-good-old-mountain-dew/ • Murder, Mystery, and Mayhem (Medium) — "Bascom Lamar Lunsford: Good Old Mountain Dew": https://medium.com/murder-mystery-and-mayhem-in-the-old-north-state/bascom-lamar-lunsford-good-old-mountain-dew-6aa37324cff2 • Britannica — "Doc Watson": https://www.britannica.com/biography/Doc-Watson • The Bluegrass Situation — "The Five Pillars of Doc Watson's Legacy": https://thebluegrasssituation.com/read/the-five-pillars-of-doc-watsons-legacy/ • Wikipedia — "Doc Watson": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Watson • mainlynorfolk.info — "Hares on the Mountains / Blackbirds and Thrushes (Roud 329)": https://mainlynorfolk.info/shirley.collins/songs/haresonthemountains.html • Wikipedia — "Hares on the Mountain": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hares_on_the_Mountain • Iowa Public Radio / NPR — "Shirley Collins is an English folk song's bridge between now and then": https://www.iowapublicradio.org/2023-05-25/shirley-collins-is-an-english-folk-songs-bridge-between-now-and-then • Tradfolk — "Hares on the Mountain, a version by Fern Maddie": https://tradfolk.co/music/songs/hares-on-the-mountain-fern-maddie/ • Klof Magazine — "Folk Revisited: Shirley Collins Returns to Music": https://klofmag.substack.com/p/folk-revisited-shirley-collins-returns • …and 10 more in the episode research notes This podcast episode was fully generated by AI — research, script, voices, and production. Built with Claude, Piper TTS, and automated pipeline tooling.

  6. 2d ago

    The Souvenir Scam: Proof You Actually Changed

    That wooden cat on your desk is worthless—except you'd genuinely fight someone for it. The global souvenir market is worth $30 billion annually, yet most travelers come home with objects that have zero connection to their destination. So why does a mass-produced trinket matter more than a better version you could buy online? The answer involves neuroscience, anthropology, and a psychological phenomenon that basically amounts to real, documented magic. 00:00 - The wooden cat from Kyoto: value vs. worth 02:15 - $30B souvenir economy and global travel stats 04:45 - The paradox: why worthless objects matter 07:30 - Beverly Gordon's research: souvenirs aren't about the place 10:15 - The transformation angle: buying proof you changed 13:00 - Russell Belk's research and self-extension theory 16:00 - Implications for identity, memory, and meaning-making --- Sources & further reading: • Beverly Gordon — "The Souvenir: Messenger of the Extraordinary," The Journal of Popular Culture 20(3), 1986: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.0022-3840.1986.2003_135.x • Russell Belk — "Possessions and the Extended Self," Journal of Consumer Research 15(2), 1988: https://academic.oup.com/jcr/article-abstract/15/2/139/1841428 • Paul Rozin & Carol Nemeroff — "Sympathetic Magical Thinking: The Contagion and Similarity 'Heuristics'," in Heuristics and Biases (Cambridge UP), 2002: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/heuristics-and-biases/sympathetic-magical-thinking-the-contagion-and-similarity-heuristics/B8C4BD241231D6D348734A41C28FE135 • Julie Masset & Alain Decrop — "Meanings of Tourist Souvenirs: From the Holiday Experience to Everyday Life," Journal of Travel Research 60(4), 2021: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0047287520915284 • Thomas Gilovich & Leaf Van Boven — "To Do or to Have? That Is the Question," Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 85(6), 2003 — (available via APA PsycNet) • Linda Henkel — "Point-and-Shoot Memories: The Influence of Taking Photos on Memory for a Museum Tour," Psychological Science 25(2), 2014: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797613504438 • Yang et al. — "A Systematic Review of the Neural Mechanisms of Nostalgia," Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 17(12), 2022: https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/17/12/1131/6585517 • Xingyang Lv et al. — "Purchase and Protect: Dual Effects of Tourist Souvenir Customization," Journal of Travel Research, 2025: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00472875241269819 • Kristen K. Swanson — "Tourists' and Retailers' Perceptions of Souvenirs," Journal of Vacation Marketing 10(4), 2004: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/135676670401000407 • Friedericke Kuhn — "Conspicuous Souvenirs: Analysing Touristic Self-Presentation through Souvenir Display," Tourist Studies 20(4), 2020: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1468797620956935 • Nelson Graburn (tribute) — Tourism Geographies, 2025: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616688.2025.2461559 • Victor Turner — Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture, Columbia UP, 1978 • D.W. Winnicott — "Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena," International Journal of Psycho-Analysis 34, 1953 • The Travel Psychologist — "The Psychology of Travel Souvenirs": https://thetravelpsychologist.co.uk/the-psychology-of-travel-souvenirs/ • Academia.edu — "Medieval Pilgrim Badges: Souvenirs or Valuable Charismatic Objects?": https://www.academia.edu/38352369/Medieval_Pilgrim_Badges_Souvenirs_or_valuable_charismatic_objects • FutureDataStats — "Tourism Souvenir Market Size & Industry Growth 2030": https://www.futuredatastats.com/tourism-souvenir-market • …and 1 more in the episode research notes This podcast episode was fully generated by AI — research, script, voices, and production. Built with Claude, Piper TTS, and automated pipeline tooling.

  7. 3d ago

    Where Your Brain Ends: Obsidian and the Art of Keeping Knowledge

    Episode 200: We're drowning in scattered notes across six apps and zero organization. Where do you actually keep what you know? Today we're exploring Obsidian, the note-taking tool that's quietly become essential for developers, writers, and researchers building their entire intellectual lives inside one place. We trace the lineage from Renaissance commonplace books through modern AI knowledge layers, and ask: is Obsidian industry tool or personal obsession? 0:00 - The Knowledge Crisis: Where does it all live? 2:30 - The Problem: 700 notes, zero memory of them 5:15 - Obsidian Introduction: The conspiracy board graph view 8:00 - Commonplace Books: 500 years of knowledge management 12:30 - Obsidian in Practice: How developers actually use it 16:45 - The AI Connection: Why knowledge layers matter now --- Sources & further reading: • [eesel AI — Obsidian AI explained: How it enhances knowledge management](: https://www.eesel.ai/blog/obsidian-ai • [Volodymyr Pavlyshyn — Obsidian, Supercharged: The AI Revolution in Personal Knowledge Management](: https://volodymyrpavlyshyn.substack.com/p/obsidian-supercharged-the-ai-revolution • [Eric Ma — Mastering Personal Knowledge Management with Obsidian and AI](: https://ericmjl.github.io/blog/2026/3/6/mastering-personal-knowledge-management-with-obsidian-and-ai/ • [Obsibrain — What Is Obsidian Used For? A Practical 2026 Guide](: https://www.obsibrain.com/blog/what-to-use-obsidian-for-in-2026 • [DEV Community — The Missing Piece Every Obsidian User Needs: Local RAG That Actually Works in 2026](: https://dev.to/numbpill3d/the-missing-piece-every-obsidian-user-needs-local-rag-that-actually-works-in-2026-2gfp • [FrankX — Obsidian Second Brain: AI Agents, MCP and Agent Skills](: https://www.frankx.ai/guides/agentic-obsidian-second-brain • [MorphLLM — Obsidian MCP Server: Connect Your Vault to AI Agents](: https://www.morphllm.com/obsidian-mcp-server • [NexaSphere — Best Note-Taking Apps for Developers in 2026](: https://nexasphere.io/blog/best-note-taking-apps-developers-2026 • [DasRoot — Obsidian vs Logseq vs Notion: PKM Systems Compared 2026](: https://dasroot.net/posts/2026/03/obsidian-logseq-notion-pkm-systems-compared-2026/ • [eesel AI — Obsidian pricing 2026: Free vs paid plans compared](: https://www.eesel.ai/blog/obsidian-pricing • [obra/knowledge-graph — GitHub: Query and traverse an Obsidian vault as a knowledge graph](: https://github.com/obra/knowledge-graph This podcast episode was fully generated by AI — research, script, voices, and production. Built with Claude, Piper TTS, and automated pipeline tooling.

  8. 3d ago

    Everything in Its Place: How AI Finds Knowledge

    When you ask an AI about something new, where does it find the answer? Host A and Host B explore the fundamental difference between RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) and context skills—two competing philosophies for teaching AI agents knowledge beyond their training data. Using a professional kitchen's mise en place discipline as their guide, they break down how knowledge layers work, why trust matters, and why the future belongs to layered approaches, not single solutions. 00:00 - The core problem: Knowledge cutoffs and frozen training data 03:20 - Mise en place: The kitchen metaphor explained 05:50 - RAG: Real-time retrieval and dynamic lookup 10:15 - Context skills: Pre-loading and structured knowledge 13:45 - Layering strategies: When to use each approach 15:30 - 2026 frontier: Hybrid architectures and knowledge trust --- Sources & further reading: • Patrick Lewis et al. — "Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks" (2020): https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.11401 • VentureBeat — "The RAG era is ending for agentic AI — a new compilation-stage knowledge layer is what comes next": https://venturebeat.com/data/the-rag-era-is-ending-for-agentic-ai-a-new-compilation-stage-knowledge-layer-is-what-comes-next • arXiv — "Skill Retrieval Augmentation for Agentic AI": https://arxiv.org/html/2604.24594v1 • Andrej Karpathy — context engineering framing (June 2025, expanded 2026) — (originally Twitter/X posts) • The Context Graph — "Context Engineering in 2026: From Karpathy's Tweet to Production Infrastructure": https://thecontextgraph.co/memos/context-engineering-2026-from-tweet-to-infrastructure • AI Builder Club — "Andrej Karpathy's AI Engineering Playbook (2026)": https://www.aibuilderclub.com/blog/karpathy-ai-engineering-playbook • Towards Data Science — "Is RAG Dead? The Rise of Context Engineering and Semantic Layers for Agentic AI": https://towardsdatascience.com/beyond-rag/ • RAGFlow — "From RAG to Context — A 2025 year-end review of RAG": https://ragflow.io/blog/rag-review-2025-from-rag-to-context • Redis — "Context Retrieval for AI Agents: What It Is & Why It Matters": https://redis.io/blog/context-retrieval-for-ai-agents/ • Neo4j — "Knowledge graph vs. vector RAG: Benchmarking, optimization levers": https://neo4j.com/blog/developer/knowledge-graph-vs-vector-rag/ • CMARIX — "RAG & AI Trust Statistics 2026: Beating Hallucinations": https://www.cmarix.com/blog/rag-ai-statistics/ • yAI — "Why Citation-Based RAG Still Hallucinates": https://yaihq.com/research/citation-based-rag-still-hallucinates • arXiv — "FACTUM: Mechanistic Detection of Citation Hallucination in Long-Form RAG": https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.05866 • arXiv — "Knowledge Activation: AI Skills as the Institutional Knowledge Primitive": https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.14805 • Startup GTM — "Build Karpathy's Self-Updating AI Knowledge Base in Just 90 Minutes": https://startupgtm.substack.com/p/self-updating-ai-wiki-knowledge-base • Atlan — "Knowledge Graph vs RAG: When Each One Wins (2026)": https://atlan.com/know/knowledge-graphs-vs-rag-for-ai/ This podcast episode was fully generated by AI — research, script, voices, and production. Built with Claude, Piper TTS, and automated pipeline tooling.

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Podcasts about whatever I find interesting — history, tech, weird rabbit holes. I was making these for myself anyway, so I figured I'd share. Research by Claude, produced with NotebookLM, deployed by tools built using Claude Code. Orchestrated by a clown. Enjoy.

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  • Creator
    Joey Musselman
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    194
  • Rating
    Clean
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