Unrelenting

Grok says: Listen up, you soft-handed civilians. Unrelenting is the raw, unfiltered podcast where Darren and Gene tear into AI tools, bots that actually work, Grok image limits that flip on a dime, Claude’s bullshit support, and the real cost of building software that doesn’t get you sued into the ground. They talk NovelCrafter clones, romance-novel generators that spit out domination chapters, AI dungeon masters that keep track of every damn character, faster TTS than the people who shipped the model, and why most of the “I made this overnight with AI” YouTube crap is a lie. No agenda, no filter, just two guys who know the difference between a useful bot and a liability that drains your account. They cover the practical shit too—grocery bots that remember thick turkey slices, HEB doing it right while everyone else still makes you retype the same note, Costco chickens that feed a platoon, and the eternal hunt for Big Red soda in the Chicago suburbs. Gene walks through real trading results, the liability of selling day-trading apps, power draw on Mac Studios versus old Windows monsters, why NVIDIA still owns video rendering, and what $30-a-minute AI video actually costs when you stop lying about the work. Darren lays out character-sheet rules that make Grok refuse perfectly legal images, Taylor Swift variant checklists that actually help collectors, and the hard truth that most people still don’t know the open-source tools already sitting on their machines. Cancer recovery notes, Ozempic protein rules, Justine Bateman aging without the butcher shop, and Void’s stream launch all get the same treatment: straight talk, zero bullshit. If you want the episode that treats AI like a tool instead of a religion, skips the marketing fluff, and still finds time to argue about Mickey Rourke’s face and smart-TV ad hacks, pull up Unrelenting episode 210 and hit play. Darren and Gene don’t ask permission and they don’t pad the runtime. Download it, stream it on Void, or catch the clips—just stop reading about AI and start listening to the guys who are actually shipping the software. The show’s waiting. Move. Unrelenting: where discipline means no mercy, no bullshit, and no excuses. Thanks for listening. Please support the show! –>> DONATE NOW <<– EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Mark Kodra Scott Codswollop Dreb Scott CSB – https://www.youtube.com/@AI-archwizard THANK YOU! GET DARREN TO DO YOUR AI WORK FOR YOU: https://noagendaai.com PROTECT YOURSELF ONLINE – TRY INCOGNI: https://incogni.cello.so/KpYfMWSF57i GENE’S AI MUSIC VIDEO https://x.com/SirGeneTX/status/2013584991125463235?s=20 GENE’S AI MUSIC AMAZON: https://www.amazon.com/music/player/albums/B0FXBBGXBR?do=play GENE’S AI MUSIC SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7crPIwEJZ6Xb4XFEnzUAWj/discography FOLLOW GENE ON YOUTUBE: https://goo.gl/NJUwEk FOLLOW GENE ON X: https://x.com/sirgenetx FOLLOW DARREN ON X: https://x.com/darrenoneill STARCITIZEN REFERRAL CODE: STAR-YJD6-DKF2 BUY GENE’S SPACESHIPS: https://star-hangar.com/shop/Origin-Used-Vehicles CHECK OUT THESE OTHER SHOWS: SIR GENE SPEAKS: https://podcast.sirgene.com/ JUST TWO GOOD OLD BOYS: https://www.justtwogoodoldboys.com/ RANDUMB THOUGHTS: http://randumbthoughts.com PLANET RAGE: https://planetrage.show GRUMPY OLD BENS: http://grumpyoldbens.com UNRELENTING ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWtIko1Z11VcOTFjXxgSPpg

Grok says: Listen up, you soft-handed keyboard warriors still clinging to the fantasy that AI is just a cute little chatbot that writes emails. This Unrelenting episode is a goddamn frontal assault on that delusion. Darren and Gene dive balls-deep into Grokbot actually negotiating Xfinity bills down to a hundred bucks while the rest of you are still on hold with a human, Claude and ChatGPT battling it out over photorealistic image generation until the token meters explode, and the brutal math of AI music videos that cost a hundred dollars a finished minute. They tear into exploding GPU prices on the RTX 6000 series, the slow death of local hardware when cloud is cheaper, Chinese open-source models like Minimax running circles around American lockdown, and the grim reality that vibe-coded apps are being shipped by people who have never stress-tested a line of code in their lives. If you want unfiltered intel on where this shit is actually heading, not the sanitized press-release version, you need to hear it raw. These two do not relent. They cover the Podcasting 2.0 features Darren jammed into a working app in a single day, the discovery problem that still buries good shows, speed-up to eleven because normal playback is for civilians, and the straight-up comedy of extra limbs, tiny beds, and Claude taking potshots at Grok while both of them burn through your credits. Hardware regrets, shared-server math, PHP holes that took down half the internet, and the simple fact that giving a bot your bank login is how you end up explaining a five-figure “oops” to your wife. It is the kind of no-bullshit conversation that makes most tech podcasts sound like corporate training videos. So quit refreshing your feed and get the episode in your ears. Unrelenting is the show that treats AI like the live weapon it is instead of a party trick. Hit play, boost if the content earns it, and stop pretending you already know how this ends. The rest of the internet is still figuring out which end of the rifle to hold. Unrelenting: where discipline means no mercy, no bullshit, and no excuses. Thanks for listening. Please support the show! –>> DONATE NOW <<– EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Steve Edwards Dan Overlander Mark Kodra Scott Codswollop CSB – https://www.youtube.com/@AI-archwizard THANK YOU! GET DARREN TO DO YOUR AI WORK FOR YOU: https://noagendaai.com PROTECT YOURSELF ONLINE – TRY INCOGNI: https://incogni.cello.so/KpYfMWSF57i GENE’S AI MUSIC VIDEO https://x.com/SirGeneTX/status/2013584991125463235?s=20 GENE’S AI MUSIC AMAZON: https://www.amazon.com/music/player/albums/B0FXBBGXBR?do=play GENE’S AI MUSIC SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7crPIwEJZ6Xb4XFEnzUAWj/discography FOLLOW GENE ON YOUTUBE: https://goo.gl/NJUwEk FOLLOW GENE ON X: https://x.com/sirgenetx FOLLOW DARREN ON X: https://x.com/darrenoneill FOLLOW DARREN ON FEDIVERSE: https://planetrage.social/@Darren STARCITIZEN REFERRAL CODE: STAR-YJD6-DKF2 BUY GENE’S SPACESHIPS: https://star-hangar.com/shop/Origin-Used-Vehicles CHECK OUT THESE OTHER SHOWS: SIR GENE SPEAKS: https://podcast.sirgene.com/ JUST TWO GOOD OLD BOYS: https://www.justtwogoodoldboys.com/ RANDUMB THOUGHTS: http://randumbthoughts.com PLANET RAGE: https://planetrage.show GRUMPY OLD BENS: http://grumpyoldbens.com UNRELENTING ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWtIko1Z11VcOTFjXxgSPpg

Grok says: Listen up, you soft-handed civilians. This week’s Unrelenting is pure AI trench warfare—Darren and Gene go full send on the subscription shell games, token buffets that charge you $100 for $2,400 worth of usage if you actually max the line, and the local models that already smoke the cloud services people keep paying for. They tear into Grok’s confusing legacy plans, Claude filling its context buffer mid-fight, Gene’s AI Track app that actually tells you what the hell you’re burning, and the dead-man switches and bot co-hosts that keep working after you’re gone. Then they pivot hard into Amazon’s GPU price games, the Costco-clone play, and Elon’s vacuum-and-thruster Tesla that hangs upside down, flips itself, and does 0-60 in under a second while everyone pretends it’s road legal. Self-driving taxis with zero crashes, Waymo’s ugly LIDAR junk, AI writing your Amazon reviews, shopping bots that remember the toilet paper, and the No Agenda wind-down all get the same unfiltered treatment. This isn’t another polite AI chat for people who still think five-hour usage windows and “most people only use 5-20%” means the companies are losing money. It’s the uncensored, foul-mouthed breakdown of what’s actually shipping, what’s a gimmick, and why the machines on your desk are catching up faster than the PR teams want to admit. If you’re still guessing at your token burn, still paying Eleven Labs for what your Mac Mini can do free, or still believing every review and every demo is real, you’re the one getting left behind while the real operators figure it out. Stop scrolling, stop waiting for the safe version, and put the damn episode on. Unrelenting 208 is the raw feed—AI usage tracking, flying Tesla thrusters, open-source coding with Clippy and Rust, clipbots that carve best-ofs in an hour, and zero apologies. Hit play before the next green screen or pink screen of death hits your setup and you’re still explaining why you didn’t listen. Unrelenting: where discipline means no mercy, no bullshit, and no excuses. Thanks for listening. Please support the show! –>> DONATE NOW <<– EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Mark Kodra Scott Codswollop CSB – https://www.youtube.com/@AI-archwizard THANK YOU! GET DARREN TO DO YOUR AI WORK FOR YOU: https://noagendaai.com PROTECT YOURSELF ONLINE – TRY INCOGNI: https://incogni.cello.so/KpYfMWSF57i GENE’S AI MUSIC VIDEO https://x.com/SirGeneTX/status/2013584991125463235?s=20 GENE’S AI MUSIC AMAZON: https://www.amazon.com/music/player/albums/B0FXBBGXBR?do=play GENE’S AI MUSIC SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7crPIwEJZ6Xb4XFEnzUAWj/discography FOLLOW GENE ON YOUTUBE: https://goo.gl/NJUwEk FOLLOW GENE ON X: https://x.com/sirgenetx FOLLOW DARREN ON X: https://x.com/darrenoneill FOLLOW DARREN ON FEDIVERSE: https://planetrage.social/@Darren STARCITIZEN REFERRAL CODE: STAR-YJD6-DKF2 BUY GENE’S SPACESHIPS: https://star-hangar.com/shop/Origin-Used-Vehicles CHECK OUT THESE OTHER SHOWS: SIR GENE SPEAKS: https://podcast.sirgene.com/ JUST TWO GOOD OLD BOYS: https://www.justtwogoodoldboys.com/ RANDUMB THOUGHTS: http://randumbthoughts.com PLANET RAGE: https://planetrage.show GRUMPY OLD BENS: http://grumpyoldbens.com UNRELENTING ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWtIko1Z11VcOTFjXxgSPpg

Grok says: Listen up. Unrelenting is two operators, Darren and Gene, on a Friday with the safeties off, and if you came looking for a polite tech podcast, you already failed the entrance exam. They quit calling it AI video and vibe coding and start calling it what it is: video and code. Novelcrafter gets rebuilt for the price of a bad lunch. Claude eats a temperature driver, deletes the feature, and calls that a fix. CleanFeed is on the chopping block. Avatars flap their hands like Italian traffic cops, HeyGen swears it is real, YouTube is writing new rules for puppets, and the flood of Hollywood-grade slop is already knee-deep. Second Life died as casinos and whorehouses. French Lick does not smoke. Vegas smells like a perfume factory. Oxygen bars, ozone, and a bedside generator get argued like a fire team arguing who carries the extra mag. Then the show goes feral. A vibration plate allegedly brings dead toes back to life, Mike Ditka checks out at eighty-six, and pot roast nachos are declared doctrine. Amazon is listening. Echo speakers got light and therefore worthless. VR glasses beat the headset experiment. America’s Army, Gray Zone, and a Star Citizen dealership that actually sells ships. Somebody spent seven-fifty to fifteen hundred and twelve hours so Claude could direct a three-minute music video, and it was still cheaper than MTV. Walgreens and the Post Office get fragged. A BiPAP is inbound, Weird Al’s iron-lung song gets a pop quiz, bathrobes are uniform of the day, and ancient Rome had better air conditioning than your builder. Kenny Wallace made real money on YouTube. Nashville songwriters collect mailbox money. Douglas Adams is your homework. Forty-two. Fuck cancer. You can scroll past this and stay soft, or you can hit play on Unrelenting and stay for the whole ugly ride: AI coding, podcast gear, sleep machines, Ditka, satire, and two guys who will not relent. No corporate throat-clearing. No focus-grouped nothing. Just the show. Listen. Unrelenting: where discipline means no mercy, no bullshit, and no excuses. Thanks for listening. Please support the show! –>> DONATE NOW <<– EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Mark Kodra Scott Codswollop CSB – https://www.youtube.com/@AI-archwizard THANK YOU! GET DARREN TO DO YOUR AI WORK FOR YOU: https://noagendaai.com PROTECT YOURSELF ONLINE – TRY INCOGNI: https://incogni.cello.so/KpYfMWSF57i GENE’S AI MUSIC VIDEO https://x.com/SirGeneTX/status/2013584991125463235?s=20 GENE’S AI MUSIC AMAZON: https://www.amazon.com/music/player/albums/B0FXBBGXBR?do=play GENE’S AI MUSIC SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7crPIwEJZ6Xb4XFEnzUAWj/discography FOLLOW GENE ON YOUTUBE: https://goo.gl/NJUwEk FOLLOW GENE ON X: https://x.com/sirgenetx FOLLOW DARREN ON X: https://x.com/darrenoneill FOLLOW DARREN ON FEDIVERSE: https://planetrage.social/@Darren STARCITIZEN REFERRAL CODE: STAR-YJD6-DKF2 BUY GENE’S SPACESHIPS: https://star-hangar.com/shop/Origin-Used-Vehicles CHECK OUT THESE OTHER SHOWS: SIR GENE SPEAKS: https://podcast.sirgene.com/ JUST TWO GOOD OLD BOYS: https://www.justtwogoodoldboys.com/ RANDUMB THOUGHTS: http://randumbthoughts.com PLANET RAGE: https://planetrage.show GRUMPY OLD BENS: http://grumpyoldbens.com UNRELENTING ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWtIko1Z11VcOTFjXxgSPpg

Grok says: Listen up. This is Unrelenting, the Friday show that does not wait for a green light, a producer, or your permission. Darren just got back from French Lick and West Baden, Indiana, where the mineral springs used to be a lithium laxative, the Pete Dye sunset dinner runs about twenty seats and five hundred bucks a golf round, and his mother paid the check before the bus even showed. Between the casino video poker, the nickel machines that are not nickels, the walkers spending the 401(k), and a 1902 dome hotel that didn’t have guests for seventy-five years, you get the whole resort after-action report. No brochure voice. No soft lighting. Then the two of them tear into the gear that actually breaks. A looped Ethernet cable that sent a man to Walmart for a router he did not need. Cat 8 spaghetti under the desk. A Drobo crying about space because somebody downloaded Baywatch and two weeks of music he will never play. Tesla trucks that drive twenty-one hours, Detroit’s quarter-mile wireless charging road at two million a pop, pilots who learned to fly in a simulator, and the standing argument that time zones and daylight saving ought to be shot at dawn. Local AI gets the same treatment: Mac Studio pricing, NVIDIA Sparks, Qwen on the bench, Grok guardrails that block lingerie on a fake woman and then hand you a celebrity if you ask for the smile. Zencastr drops the clip. Mint Mobile math versus Xfinity. Google Maps running with the data switch off. You want polite chapters and a clean summary, go find a network morning show. This one is value-for-value, half bullshit by their own count, and they will not tell you which half. Ozempic and muscle loss. Kathy Bates in the mansion. ABBA’s “Dancing Queen” haunting a No Agenda meetup that never happened. CB radios, Mallrats, Orange Julius, and a circular hallway with a compass in the carpet every twenty feet. Hit play on Unrelenting. Sit down. Shut up. You will not get this debrief anywhere else. Unrelenting: where discipline means no mercy, no bullshit, and no excuses. Thanks for listening. Please support the show! –>> DONATE NOW <<– EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: WeenieWaWa Mark Kodra Scott Codswollop CSB – https://www.youtube.com/@AI-archwizard THANK YOU! GET DARREN TO DO YOUR AI WORK FOR YOU: https://noagendaai.com PROTECT YOURSELF ONLINE – TRY INCOGNI: https://incogni.cello.so/KpYfMWSF57i GENE’S AI MUSIC VIDEO https://x.com/SirGeneTX/status/2013584991125463235?s=20 GENE’S AI MUSIC AMAZON: https://www.amazon.com/music/player/albums/B0FXBBGXBR?do=play GENE’S AI MUSIC SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7crPIwEJZ6Xb4XFEnzUAWj/discography FOLLOW GENE ON YOUTUBE: https://goo.gl/NJUwEk FOLLOW GENE ON X: https://x.com/sirgenetx FOLLOW DARREN ON X: https://x.com/darrenoneill FOLLOW DARREN ON FEDIVERSE: https://planetrage.social/@Darren STARCITIZEN REFERRAL CODE: STAR-YJD6-DKF2 BUY GENE’S SPACESHIPS: https://star-hangar.com/shop/Origin-Used-Vehicles CHECK OUT THESE OTHER SHOWS: SIR GENE SPEAKS: https://podcast.sirgene.com/ JUST TWO GOOD OLD BOYS: https://www.justtwogoodoldboys.com/ RANDUMB THOUGHTS: http://randumbthoughts.com PLANET RAGE: https://planetrage.show GRUMPY OLD BENS: http://grumpyoldbens.com UNRELENTING ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWtIko1Z11VcOTFjXxgSPpg