Zeoli Needs His Podcast Back

Rich Zeoli joins us in a Reagan-Bush shirt and gives an update on his recovery from open-heart surgery. He previews his August 7 afternoon show in Cape May, explains that his podcast disappears from Apple search and says the sudden drop in plays remains unexplained. Irish goodbyes, producer habits, alcohol jokes and Stocker’s workplace blowup give the hour a loose, combative start. Fight Club brings us a chaotic Texas street brawl, but the crew and the audience quickly agree that the matchup fails to deliver. After the break, Zeoli joins our friendly radio-rivalry talk before we examine a security test in which a model breaches Hugging Face infrastructure. We debate data centers, model security and the danger of giving federal agencies broader power over podcasters and web-based speech. France’s ban on social-media accounts for children under 15 leads to arguments over age checks, parental control, anonymity and government abuse. The Federalist Papers become our example of why pseudonyms matter, while Salamanca’s Sally robot raises questions about classroom technology and human judgment.