Trucking, AI Takeover, and Hollywood's Most Inconsistent Actors | Ep 001

Welcome to Diabolical Bastards, the unfiltered podcast where three friends say what they actually think, with no fear of being canceled. In our first episode, Billy, Nick, and Jessica break in the mics (after hours of tech disasters) and talk about whatever comes up: 🚛 Life as a trucker: 12 years over the road, cats that rode along in the cab, and the one that escaped into a dive bar 🤖 Will AI take our jobs? An IT veteran on how automation is changing his work, plus robot forklifts, Optimus, and why AI is "just like the internet" ⚡ Data centers, water, and the power grid 📹 Flock cameras and surveillance 👽 Ancient aliens, a terrible Prime documentary, and Billy's theory that aliens are demons 🎬 Hollywood's downfall: Nicolas Cage, Keanu Reeves' biggest flops, Point Break, the Road House remake, Spaceballs 2, and the worst movie recommendations from coworkers 01:09 Intro & tech setup nightmares 04:14 Trucking life & the cats 10:20 CDLs, visas & the job market 12:51 AI is coming for all of us 19:00 Data centers, water & power 21:00 Flock cameras 25:06 The worst alien documentary ever 31:23 Are aliens demons? 31:53 Bad movies: Citizen Vigilante & Pig 35:22 Nicolas Cage & Keanu Reeves 42:33 Road House, Bigfoot & Siberia 46:01 Good movies & Macbeth 49:48 AI in filmmaking 54:22 Spaceballs 2 & slapstick 1:00:35 Wrap-up Fair warning: this is a raw first episode, recorded on phones and whatever gear we could get working. It gets better from here. Tell us what you think in the comments, and what we should cover next. 👍 Like, subscribe, and follow along as we grow: YouTube: youtube.com/@diabolicalbastards Instagram / TikTok / Threads: @diabolicalbastards X: @diabolbastards Explicit language. Views expressed are those of the hosts.