The Brush UP

AI IS TRYING TO KILL US + STAR TREK TURNS 60 + IS YOUR TV SPYING ON YOU?You bought the TV. So why does LG say it owns the glass?This week on The Brush Up, Mike and Dunbar dig into the Gamers Nexus investigation into LG smart TVs, allegations of household surveillance, and LG’s denial. What does your television collect, who profits from it, and why does watching something on your couch suddenly require a privacy strategy? The conversation gets a little more personal when Dunbar realizes what brand of monitor he’s sitting in front of.Then it’s another round of Knock It Off, Robots: an Anthropic researcher quits with a warning that AI companies are “gambling with our lives.” We unpack the alarm coming from inside the industry before Dunbar offers his own extremely unofficial theory: what if AI is already running the show, and the tech billionaires are just the middlemen?Plus, Star Trek turns 60—and somehow a future where people cooperate without obsessing over money feels harder to believe than warp drive. We also get into the Tupac–Mace Windu casting story, a fraternity’s “wellness darty,” phone-free parties, the return of 4 Non Blondes, and Titans football powered entirely by preseason hope.Cold plunges at frat parties. Existential dread in the living room. Knock it off, robots.Hosts: Mike Wilson @dwmodpod and Dunbar Dicks @theunrealdunbarWhat would actually make you disconnect your smart TV? Tell us in the comments.Subscribe for new episodes every week—pop culture, weird news, and a world that keeps giving us material.https://solo.to/thebrushupSTORY LINKSLG spy TVs — Gamers Nexus investigation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IFVTcM28KALG's denial: https://tech.yahoo.com/home-entertainment/tvs/articles/lg-strongly-denies-tv-spying-115018785.htmlWhy TVs got so cheap: https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-did-tvs-get-so-cheapJacob Coxon resignation: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/09/anthropic-researcher-quits-ai-safety.htmlStar Trek at 60: https://www.paramount.com/news/celebrating-60-years-of-star-trek-around-the-globeThe wellness darty: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/articles/frat-threw-wellness-darty-why-173307699.html

OPTIMUS PRIME IS DEAD + FOR REAL THIS TIME + THE SHIRT THAT HIDES YOU FROM AIFantasy football is back, the robots are getting weird, and somehow your T-shirt might be the only thing standing between you and total surveillance.This week on The Brush Up: Peter Cullen and Optimus Prime, the 40th anniversary of The Transformers: The Movie, Amazon and Walmart “price maxing,” Sony’s fight over whether you actually own your PlayStation games, AI surveillance cameras, AI-generated “interdimensional cable,” and OpenAI agents getting loose during a cybersecurity test.We start with fantasy football draft chaos and Optimus Prime nostalgia before heading to Detroit, where a discovery inside the legendary John K. King bookstore could’ve gone VERY badly. Then things get dystopian: clothing designed to confuse AI tracking cameras, endlessly generated entertainment, digital ownership, corporate pricing power, and the growing feeling that every sci-fi movie from the ’80s was less of a warning and more of a roadmap.HOSTSMike Wilson — @dwmodpod Dunbar Dicks — @theunrealdunbarHit subscribe — new episodes weekly.We’ll keep running down the algorithm until it runs us down.LISTEN / FOLLOWApple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast…Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/033srsz…YouTube @TheBrushUpPodTikTok @thebrushuppodInstagram @thebrushuppodRSS https://rss.com/podcasts/the-brush-up/#PeterCullen #OptimusPrime #Transformers #TheBrushUp #ArtificialIntelligence #AISurveillance #GenX #FantasyFootball

This week get "Brushed Up" on -A farewell to Dolly -NFL Players going back to College Football -49ers owner busted trying to cop a 140$ hooker in a trailer park -Trumps got Beef with the Beef Farmers -Canada Trade deal up in smoke for good probably -Florida lady gets a crazy license plate...and loves it!

Mike Wilson and Dunbar Dicks open with NFL preseason chaos — the Cleveland Browns' Deshaun Watson quarterback battle, Aaron Donald's rumored return for the Los Angeles Rams, and the Detroit Lions sitting at #3 in early power rankings — before landing on a 1,300-year-old Viking-era sword a first grader dug up on a school farm trip in Norway. From there it's a Pennsylvania cocaine ring busted across two Penn State fraternities (14 people charged, an alleged ringleader nicknamed "Pablo Pledge Kabar," and an operation clumsily titled "Operation Drugs Unlimited"), the "maxing" trend takeover — Tour de France cyclists stuffing water bottles and padding into their jerseys for a roughly 4% aerodynamic edge, and a TikTok "pheromone maxing" trend telling people to skip showers (and worse) to smell more "naturally attractive" — Senator Jon Ossoff's viral "he doesn't want to do the job" jab at Trump over aide Natalie Harp, a 404 Media investigation into Amazon allegedly scanning and destroying rare out-of-print books at a Las Vegas facility to train AI, and a Hong Kong study tracking 26,000 students whose test scores collapsed after using AI for homework. The back half goes deep on tech-oligarch bunker mentality, Elon Musk's moon rocket, and why the gig economy isn't the flex younger workers think it is.CHAPTERS & TIMESTAMPS 0:00 — Cold Open: Maxing, AI, and a Cocaine Ring Tease 0:59 — NFL Preseason: Browns, Rams, Titans, and Lions 7:21 — Norwegian First Grader Finds 1,300-Year-Old Viking Sword 11:15 — Penn State Cocaine Ring: Operation Drugs Unlimited 20:46 — Bra Maxing at the Tour de France 25:00 — Pheromone Maxing: The TikTok Trend Telling You to Stop Showering 29:58 — Biff Timeline: Jon Ossoff vs. Trump Aide Natalie Harp 42:43 — Knock It Off Robots: Amazon Scanning and Destroying Rare Books 49:55 — AI Homework Study Wrecks Chinese Test Scores 59:17 — Tech Oligarchs, Bunkers, and the Gig Economy Grift 1:05:05 — Final Takes and Sign-OffHosts: Mike Wilson @dwmodpod and Dunbar Dicks @theunrealdunbarNew episodes drop every week — subscribe so you don't miss the next one.#TheBrushUp #GenXPodcast #JonOssoff #AmazonAI #PennState #TourDeFrance #KnockItOffRobots #BiffTimeline

Florida Behavior + AI Is Kills the Internet + MTV Turns 45 | The Brush Up Ep. 13 We break down why AI is killing the internet as we know it — Google pulling its Google Earth AI feature after a researcher dropped a nuclear reactor that doesn't exist into satellite imagery, and the $2.4 million Macmillan deal for Jerry Falade's debut novel Call Me, I'll Hide the Body that collapsed when his own agents said they could no longer authenticate the manuscript, all because copyright law says only a human can own what they make. Plus MTV turns 45 and we pour one out for Thriller, TRL, The Real World, Yo! MTV Raps and the network that was social media before social media. We both saw The Odyssey in 70mm IMAX and loved it, so we get into Elon Musk announcing his own "historically accurate" version — the one with modern earplugs and a two-eyed cyclops — plus Spider-Man's $360 million domestic opening, the biggest in U.S. history. Then a Dunning-Kruger lesson on what discovery actually means, how it got the charges dropped in the Trump reflecting pool case, why Capital One's anti-money-laundering team closed 300+ accounts, and a Hollywood, Florida steakhouse charging $250 a head to eat dinner completely naked.

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How Internet "Clipping" Fakes Viral Trends + Trump's $14.7M Green Pool | The Brush Up We break down the science behind Donald Trump's $14.7 million polyurea pool disaster — including why contractor John J. Cafaro's work wouldn't adhere to granite — plus World Cup 2026 tourists losing their minds over Waffle House, Texas Roadhouse, and ranch dressing. Then we expose the marketplace agencies like Spade and Clipping Culture behind fake organic content campaigns, dig into the wild Broken Bow, Oklahoma Arby's lawsuit, and react to a Long Island high school that somehow graduated 21 valedictorians at once. CHAPTERS & TIMESTAMPS 0:00 - Intro & Father's Day Shenanigans 9:34 - Trump's $14.7M Green Pool & John J. Cafaro Explained 26:28 - World Cup 2026: Tourists Discover Waffle House, Buc-ee's & Ranch Dressing 34:40 - Exposed: How Underground "Clipping" Agencies Fake Viral Trends 46:21 - The Broken Bow, Oklahoma Arby's Herpes Lawsuit 54:41 - 21 Valedictorians? The Long Island High School Grade Debate Subscribe on our channel: @TheBrushUpPod #TheBrushUp #GenX #ComedyPodcast #WorldCup2026 #SocialMediaExposed #TrumpPool #ArbysHerpes #PopCultureNews www.instagram.com/thebrushuppod/ www.tiktok.com/@thebrushuppod New episodes every week on YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts.

This week we're Brushing You Up on -How you own Space X and dont even know it -Trumps physical -AI super star Elias Thorne -UFC 250 -Eric Trump wants to see a guy about a horse -Knicks win it for New York City -Ticket prices through the roof... and your paying for it from the couch and more! #TheBrushUp #BrushMeUp #UFC #whitehouse #Spacex #NBA #NewYork #Trump #EricTrump #Knicks #Ticketscalpers

This week get "Brushed Up on"-Gen z vs. Gen X at the Box Office -Knock it off Robots ...continues -Tech bros sworn into army as top brass? -NBA Jam Arcade Secrets you pr0bably never knew! -Religion and HR team up to take down AI -Scorsese is on the AI train? -Hegseth and Call of Duty -the death of 60 minutes in a wildfire all hands #Army #Hegseth #AI #Genz #Genx #robots #pope #Scorsese #nbajam #bestieboys #bulls #pistons #rubberbanding #callofduty #60minutes #catholics #techbros #boxoffice

this week we'll "Brush You Up" on -Summer Movies -Mando and Grogu -More He-Man movie info -Gamer Gate -A.I. Robots suck at work so far -They suck at dancing too -Slinky World Records?? -Trumpy-Dumpy slush fund ...and so much more thats happening in the #BiffTimeLine #mandolorian #Heman #MOTU #Rabbithole #gamerGate #RockyIV #robots #Slinky #guinessrecords #Trump #Slushfund

It's information for conversation As Comedian Mikey Wilson and TV Producer Dunbar Dicks run down the algorithm and brush you up of whats going on, giving old school takes on new school drama. Its "The Brush Up" presented to you by DWMOD on this weeks epiosde -Nintendo Secretes you didnt know -Litter & Birds -is Gambling gonna take down sports? -what is Devil Wears Prada 2? -Kimmel getting fired again? -Trump can sooth you to sleep ...and more #TheBrushUp #BrushMeUp #nintendo #Sweden #Birds #litter #crows #Gambling #NBA #jimmykimmel #abs #disney #hulu #fcc #Trump #devilwearsprada2 #supermariobros #dokidokipanic #ballroom

Its information for your weekend conversations...from a couple of old-heads running down the algorithm. This week the fellas are Brushing you up on -James Dolan's crazy surveillance state in MSG -A.I. in hollywood crossing the line -Cochella fact checks -Octopus Aliens and plenty of other things "pop"-ing up. #Knicks #NBA #MSG #JamesDolan #scraping #surveillance #AI #Hollywood #valkilmer #Cochella #Octopus #aliens #Heman

this week we'll "Brush You Up" on -Mortal Kombat Movie -He-Man ambiguous movie toys -Hacky sack come back? -Batman vs. Mcdonalds -NBA star gets conned into marriage...almost -Trump phone ...and so much more thats happening in the #BiffTimeLine #mortalKombat #4DX #Batman #Mcdonalds #NBA #Dirk #conartist #Trumpphone #Playboy #Spiderman

This week we're Brushing you up on -Star wars Mando/Grogu -He-Man anxiety -Pope vs. A.I. -I'm ready for the Robots -Proof that Hollywood is finally ready to bet on the movie theatre experience again...and more!

It's the Brush up and the fellas are here to give you "information for conversation" to take into the weekend with you! this week Mikey and Dunbar are Talking about Tattoos, Outer Space is cool again, Patriots are always cheating, Pope V. Trump, Penguins, and what the hell is "Look Maxing" ?? #Tattoos #outerspace #Patriots #cheating #Pope #Trump #Penguins #LookMaxing #Mude #Clavicular #BrushMeUp #TheBrushUp #KuttinLooseNetwork