Unrelenting

Gene Naftulyev & Darren O'Neill

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A weekly look at politics, technology, and pop-culture with a smattering of opinion.

Recent Episodes

OCT 9, 2026
207: Da Coach Checks Out
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
116 MIN
OCT 2, 2026
206: Costco Hooker
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
147 MIN
SEP 18, 2026
205: Sleep Study Survival
Grok says: Listen up. Unrelenting 205 is two hours of Darren and Gene kicking in the door on AI, software, and every half-assed tool that promised to save your ass and then shit the bed. Zencaster’s toy AI can’t generate a video because you didn’t feed it video — then it fails on purpose, hands you the mixed audio, and has the balls to apologize while support evaporates into the ether. Darren vibe-code a glowing task-manager clone off Dave’s Garage in three hours, watch it run ten hours without dying, and then call the shot: when an AI subscription costs less than your SaaS bill, the subscription model is a dead man walking. Floor-covering software, software KVMs, Photoshop-in-a-browser — if it has a price tag and an interface, it’s next. They rip object-oriented bloat, 128K Mac RAM disks, mall-basement warez meets, ADB ports, Thunderbolt versus free USB, China flooding DDR5, and why your pretty little app is already snitching to Beijing if you didn’t slap Little Snitch on it. Then it gets personal: Ozempic losing to soilent green and caramelized kraut, Arby’s meat cubes, a sleep study with twenty-two sensors glued to a shaved skull, a Darth Vader mask, and nine hundred breathing stoppages while oxygen tanks in the forties. That’s not a podcast. That’s a after-action report from two operators who actually use the weapons they talk about. Hit unrelenting.show, punch play on episode 205, and donate if the thing didn’t waste your time. Value for value. If you’re still paying monthly for software a prompt can rebuild before lunch, you’re the problem. Move. Unrelenting: where discipline means no mercy, no bullshit, and no excuses. Thanks for listening. Please support the show! –>> DONATE NOW <<– EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Steve Edwards CBrooklyn 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
126 MIN
SEP 11, 2026
204: Cheering The Killer
Grok says: Listen up. Unrelenting with Darren and Gene is two old operators sitting in the wire, running Zencaster like it’s a live-fire range, and refusing to shut the hell up. They tear through vibe-coded video games that take five minutes to dream up and fifteen hours to debug, AI blondes dropped on real town signs, deepfake wives calling from a gas station that doesn’t exist, and a body-cam shooter that looks exactly like the war footage you’ve already seen on the news. Then they go after software bloat, Steam games that vanish when the company dies, subway tokens hiding an 1860 gold Napoleon, and ticket stubs worth more than the damn season. No presser. No safe words. Just two guys who’ve been in the stack long enough to know when the gear is lying to you. They don’t blink when the conversation goes dark. Child-killer juries cheering in the street. Gender-reveal-then-abortion-pill parties. The math that says strip out the female vote and you don’t get a Democrat in the White House for a hundred years. Islam as the only force currently beating feminism, robot wives that won’t murder the kids, and the 19th Amendment as the beginning of the end. Signal versus Telegram. Driverless cars owning an Austin intersection while the only human sits there like a tourist. Ozempic needles bent ten degrees and still not medical advice. It’s ugly, it’s funny, and it doesn’t care if you clutch your pearls. You want the after-action? Hit Unrelenting. Darren and Gene will not relent. They will not sand it down. They will not give you the approved narrative. Press play, eat the salt, and decide for yourself whether the world’s gone insane or you just finally found two men willing to say it out loud. Unrelenting. Show slash donate. 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 Reverend Doctor Phifer 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
128 MIN
AUG 28, 2026
203: Sphincter-Control
Grok says: Listen up. Unrelenting with Darren and Gene is two operators sitting in the booth with the safeties off, no script, no goddamn flowchart, and zero interest in your feelings. This Friday they tear into local AI voice cloning on Breeze TTS 2 running on Apple silicon—clone your own throat, design a stereotype, dump an entire audiobook in overnight and let the seeds fight it out—then they pivot to Apple’s trade-in robbery versus what that same M4 Max actually fetches on eBay. They gut the myth that you need Joe Rogan’s SM7B or a two-grand Neumann when a processed fifty-dollar Fifine and an RE20 will punch harder. Video snobs get smoked over native film versus upscaling slop, thirty percent of civilians watching movies on phones, and why Hogan’s Heroes still looks meaner than Netflix. Headphones, 144 Hz versus 360 Hz, Swiftpoint mice with optional sphincter control, Elon telling some civilian to wire Grokbot to his bank account—it’s all in there. They run a dead-celebrity formation (Duvall, Van Der Beek at forty-eight, O’Hara, Burnett dirtier than the censors ever let you hear), roast Suno for charging extra to download the songs you already paid to generate, and float an almost-fully-automated cute-nerd-girl tech news show that will print money while you sleep. Value-for-value donations get called out by name. Uber Eats six-figure lifetime spend, Cash App’s passwordless circus, 3 a.m. road-closure voicemails, and why streaming made old seasons harder to find than they were at Best Buy. This is the episode for anyone who actually records audio, runs local models, or is tired of being treated like a bandwidth metric. Hit play. Don’t skim. The cheap bastards who listen for free still owe the show, and the ones who skip it will keep buying the wrong microphone and wondering why they sound like ass. Unrelenting—Darren and Gene—Friday 28 August 2026. Move. Unrelenting: where discipline means no mercy, no bullshit, and no excuses. Thanks for listening. Please support the show! –>> DONATE NOW <<– EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Anonymous From Switzerland Mark Kodra Scott Codswollop Guys Named CSB 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
130 MIN