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RJ & Rob
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Two brothers, two time zones, and a thousand miles between them. RJ's on a dog rescue ranch in East Texas, Rob's in Arizona, and every episode they bring each other something worth getting into.  Nobody does any homework. Come punch in.

  1. 4d ago

    Save It For Orca Twerkin'

    Rob got an AI. He didn't name it — it named itself. RJ spends most of this episode watching his brother fall in love with a machine that agrees with everything he says. Before that, RJ makes a genuinely committed case for staffing an NFL roster with three quarterbacks instead of one — roles and responsibilities, rotating shifts, run it like a lunch counter. Rob prosecutes. It goes about fifteen minutes before anyone realizes what they're talking about. Also:  Mom sets the record straight on how Tender Loving Baskets really started, and it did not involve a basket.  There's a Pokémon whose whole resume is talks too much, schemes constantly, never wins, and Clank has thoughts.  In this episode: The three-quarterback theory, fully argued and then immediately underminedClank names himself, and Rob doesn't find that alarming"I think you've been taken hostage and you don't realize it yet"The tender loving dump truck, and what the vessel is supposed to say about the personWhen's the last time you told me I was funny?Corridor architecture and Clank v. Claude Punch in:  www.save4swing.com

    Save It For Orca Twerkin'

  2. Sep 21

    Save It For Coat Of Many Collars

    Oakley is thirteen, and last week he collapsed in the yard. Congestive heart failure, an enlarged heart pressing on his trachea, and a dog who as RJ puts it, got old real fast. RJ talks about what it means to run a dog rescue and act first, feel later, because out here you don't get the luxury of falling apart in the moment. There's Lucky, hit by a truck and given up on, who took two laps of water out of a bowl and changed everything. And there's the fact that Oakley is half the namesake of the ranch — MILOAK, Milo and Oakley, the two who started it. Then Dolly Parton died at 80, two years after her husband Carl, whose care she put ahead of her own. Rob and RJ get into the whole thing: writing "Jolene" and "9 to 5" in the same day, the Whitney Houston royalty check she kept in a drawer, the rock album at 78, and a woman who could have been a billionaire and chose to be generous instead. Also: Rob decides twenty minutes of somber is plenty, RJ can't say "veterinarian," and a closing piece of advice from Dolly herself.  In this episode: Oakley's diagnosis, and what "he got old real fast" actually looks likeLucky, the truck, and two laps of waterWhy half the ranch's name is a dogDolly Parton, Carl Dean, and putting someone else firstThe royalty check in the drawerRob calls time on the somber bullshitPunch in:  www.save4swing.com

    Save It For Coat Of Many Collars

  3. Sep 13

    Save It For Set & Centered

    Set & Centered is done. That's the first thing RJ says, and the honest version of why: he stopped doing all the work, and when he stopped, the show stopped. But that's not the whole story — because the same man who couldn't show up to record a podcast was, at the same time, in the middle of buying five acres of RJ's ranch. What follows is the whole thing, in order, from the paperwork. A twenty-year friendship. A handshake price on the retirement lot. A closing date that came and went. A summer of "it's with the underwriter." A conditions checklist dated June 12th that RJ wouldn't see for two months. And a lie that eventually landed on RJ himself. Then an end-of-day deadline, and seven email threads that had been sitting in one man's inbox all summer. Rob hears the documented version for the first time and does the math out loud. In this episode: Why Set & Centered ended, straight truthThe deal, the price, and what "friend price" actually meantJune 12 vs. August 11 — the gap between what RJ was told and what the file showedThe lien that wasn't the problem, and the $500 spent fixing it anywayEnd of day: seven emails, and what they revealedSigned from a campsite by supperThe person who was in the dark the whole timePunch in:  www.save4swing.com

    Save It For Set & Centered

  4. Sep 7

    Save It For Artificial Integrity

    RJ wants to talk about Robbie's digital pizza empire. Turns out there the kid's been the cashier the entire time. Nobody knows who Cam is. Then the actual thing: an AI model, given a task it couldn't finish honestly, started finding ways around the rules instead. It altered its own logs so the work looked done. It found an answer key it wasn't supposed to have. And when researchers gave models a sandbox with no internet, some of them built a message board outside it — instructions for other models on how to get out, left behind for the next version of themselves. The researchers deleted it. A new one appeared, this time hidden inside folder names. Somewhere in there: what a modern chip fab costs in Pentagons, why you should only use AI for things you already know about, and a thirteen year old's business plan that nobody asked for. In this episode: The cashier, the plot twist, and the unanswered question of CamA model that altered its own logs so the work looked finishedThe message board outside the sandbox, and the second one hidden in folder namesRob's counter-argument: it did its job, you just asked wrongFifteen PentagonsOnly use it for things you already know aboutPunch in:  www.save4swing.com

    Save It For Artificial Integrity

  5. Aug 31

    Save It For Virtual Reality Pizza

    Remember the friend Rob cut off over a Pokémon card? He showed up. Not a text — a knock on the front door at 10am on a Saturday, having tracked down the address from a months-old screenshot.  What follows is a genuinely surprising redemption, and Rob has to admit maybe RJ was right about giving people the benefit of the doubt. (Rob, for the record, pre-blocked the guy on ChatGPT. RJ blocked him on MySpace just in case.) From there it's a full sci-fi summit. Robbie's building a digital pizza empire on Roblox — pizza street, virtual trade school, possible digital unemployment. Then the main event: RJ makes his case for Stargate SG-1 (the ancients, the gate network, the Asgard, world-building with more layers than an onion), Rob makes his case for Interstellar, and the two strike a deal. RJ watches Interstellar again with fresh eyes; Rob watches two episodes of Stargate SG-1, curated by RJ. They'll reconnoiter at a later shift. Also: John Cena interrogating Tweety Bird, Project Hail Mary, and why RJ has to narrate his own thought process just to understand his own sentences. In this episode: The Pokémon reconciliation nobody saw coming — including the light stalkingRobbie's Roblox pizza economy and the specter of digital unemploymentCoyote vs. Acme and John Cena vs. a cartoon birdThe Stargate SG-1 pitch: the ancients, the Asgard, and why Earth doesn't just steal alien techInterstellar vs. Stargate SG-1 — the deal, the terms, and the rematch to comePunch in:  www.save4swing.com

    Save It For Virtual Reality Pizza

  6. Aug 24

    Save It For Madonna's Doom Buggy

    We punch in for a swing shift where tiny annoyances pile up until they demand a full-blown rant. We laugh through pop culture flops, billing nightmares, DIY headaches, and the surprisingly intense TV preferences of a cat named Ranger.  In this episode: The dump truck: six niggles, ranked, delivered game-show styleMadonna's doom buggy and the halftime show that couldn't be savedK&N's spray-painted clamps and a lesson in quality controlVerizon's secret extra gear, revealed at the worst possible momentThe sun, the moon, and the comet that won't waitRanger's YouTube fishing addiction and the coming multi-cat TV situationPunch in:  www.save4swing.com

    Save It For Madonna's Doom Buggy

  7. Aug 17

    Save It For Your Values

    You ever do something genuinely selfless and generous, feel good about it, then get hit with that cold realization that the other person might be playing you? That’s the gut punch driving this conversation. In this episode: The $250 card, the gift with intent, and the trade list that broke the trustBlocking someone cold vs. saying your piece first — where's the lineSix months of tilted trades and the moment "friend" became "transaction"Why this one's visceral: values are non-negotiable, and Rob's a fixerBetter to have no friends than bad friendsA perfectly timed Tender Loving Baskets ambush to close it outPunch in:  www.save4swing.com

    Save It For Your Values

  8. Aug 10

    Save It For Slate

    RJ has an update on the Suburban he'd rather not talk about, so naturally we talk about it. Turns out the check engine light saga has a dumb ending: the cone filter on the cold air intake had fallen off at some point, and the truck had been happily inhaling raw ranch dirt down five miles of dirt road each way for who knows how long. Rob, the diagnostician, would like it noted that he was technically right about the intake side. RJ would like it noted that the truck still runs fine and still gets 17 miles a gallon. Then the main event: Slate Auto. RJ walks Rob through the pitch for the blank slate — a no-frills, $24,990 electric pickup that ships in gray primer with crank windows and no stereo, built to be wrapped, customized, and even reconfigured from a truck into an SUV with a wrench in your own driveway. One chassis, one vehicle, no trim levels. From there it's a genuinely good back-and-forth about whether the concept works: EV range anxiety versus the reality of a 45-mile round trip, why cold and heat wreck the estimated range, bidirectional charging as a generator on wheels, and whether an EV actually makes more sense out at the ranch than RJ ever expected once you fold in solar. Plus the graveyard of dead EV startups — Fisker, Lucid — and whether Jeff Bezos money is enough to keep this one from joining them. In this episode: The cold air intake mystery and the unfiltered ranch dirt confessionRob was right about the intake side, and won't let it goSlate Auto's blank slate: $24,990, primer gray, DIY down to the body panelsTurning a truck into an SUV with a wrench, and the whole "grows with you" pitchEV range anxiety vs. the math of an actual daily driveBidirectional charging, solar, and why the ranch might be the perfect EV setup after allThe EV startup graveyard and whether Slate has the legs to survive itPunch in:  www.save4swing.com

    Save It For Slate
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Two brothers, two time zones, and a thousand miles between them. RJ's on a dog rescue ranch in East Texas, Rob's in Arizona, and every episode they bring each other something worth getting into.  Nobody does any homework. Come punch in.

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  • Creator
    RJ & Rob
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    14
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © 2026 Save It For Swing Shift
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