Jen and Noam have a nice long chat about the FlyDubai airplane hijacking, Jacob Geller's weird Title IX admission, the whole mess at Cornell, and Eric Schmitt's publicity stunt gone awry.

For our WAWC, Noam talks about Lanterns again now that the season is over, specifically about how the internet is wrong about the show (but what's new). Jen is happy that The Apothecary Diaries is back (so is Noam), and we both explain that the show isn't just for the ladies but is in fact a pretty hefty drama.

Jen and Noam are finally back! Just in time to discuss Nikole Hannah-Jones' big piece on how she was an inattentive parent who left her kid in a bad school because reasons. OK, that's our interpretation of what happened, not hers, not that she seems to have learned anything from the experience either. Nevertheless, she is persisting, along with some of her supporters.

Since it has been so long since we recorded we have a bit of a grab bag of WAWC - Noam is still watching Lanterns and ignoring the online discourse, and Jen went and saw Akira in IMAX when it was showing. Jen sidetracked the conversation by asking Noam about Sidney Sweeney's big naked sports betting ad, which accidentally led to another discussion of Euphoria. We do learn that Noam knows about Gaylor Swift though, of all things.

Noam and Jen get to have the conversation about the upcoming AI apocalypse that they were going to have last week until Nikole Hannah-Jones ruined everything. We discuss AI doomerism, AI CEOs warning of impending doom yet doing nothing to stop it, how AI isn't a sentient being, and how we're not all going to die from AI.

For our WAWC, Jen doesn't have anything because we're in the dead time between anime seasons, but Noam has two fun puzzle games for you - Dimhaven and Penelope Pendrick and the Art of Deceit. We also have a little discussion about if it's finally time to upgrade to the Switch 2, now that there are games coming out for it that we want to play.