The Republic of Texas Radio w/ Steve OBrien, April 5, 2026 Hour 2

This week on Republic of Texas Radio, Steve O’Brien takes a hard look at how Americans lived leaner and smarter in the 1950s, and why those habits matter more right now than any survival fantasy you’ve seen on YouTube. Then it gets strange: meet Larry the Lobster, an AI agent programmed to spy on other AIs — and what happened when he grew a conscience. Steve breaks down the real hardware behind home-built AI systems, why Microsoft just issued a critical Secure Boot warning your computer may already be flashing at you, how the big AI labs are quietly driving your RAM prices up, and what it means that Anthropic shut the door on the very tools developers were building with Claude — until they found the back window. This is your 2026 AI reality check, Texas style. Unfiltered.