The fake sponsor has a real founder, and she raised us. Mom joins the show as our first guest, drops off the call three times, and fixes the problem herself while her sons and two AIs are still troubleshooting it. Then she tells the real story of Tender Loving Baskets: a small-town newspaper ad, a dump truck given away free, and a name she picked so she'd stay in the will.

In this episode:

• Rob's QR-code card packs, and a math minor gets corrected on the first try
• Mom vanishes, comes back sounding better than ever, then vanishes again
• "No occasion necessary," the original tagline, and the time Mom was one meeting away from being mayor
• Basketeers, gift concierges for forgetful men, and how to stay bespoke without going corporate
• Boo-Boo Bunnies, and the construction crew that complained on purpose just to earn one

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Rob's AI told him he owns a PSA 10 Blastoise. He believed it long enough to go check.

The brothers come back to the AI-danger conversation, now that legislators, AI CEOs, and Elon have all started sounding the alarm. Is a machine that lies to protect itself self-aware, or just very efficient? Do dogs count? Also, this episode is sponsored by Heiko AI.

In this episode:

• Clank's fantasy football team loses week one to Caleb Williams
• Rob is done with politics; RJ is not done with Rob being done with politics
• Sentience, self-preservation, and the dog by the pantry pretending nothing happened
• If the lights go out, Rob moves to Texas and cries over Clank like Wilson floating away
• Rob formally withdraws from the Claude vs. Clank challenge
• Heiko AI: a stepdad in your pocket. Be a very good son.

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We lost Oakley this week. Two days later, RJ kept the recording schedule to honor him, and Rob opened the show.

This episode is for Oakley: the terrier mix who was raised by a grump, took over the ranch the day he got there, and is half of the reason Miloak Ranch exists.

In this episode:

• How Oakley came home: a depressed Milo, a borrowed "hostage" dog, and a three-month-old puppy chosen in three minutes
• Milo sitting backwards on the center console, growling at the back seat for the whole drive home
• Big man on campus from day one, running ahead of the side-by-side and riding the golf cart like a Huey door gunner
• The goodbyes he seemed to know were coming, and Finley waiting on Oakley's chair for him to return
• Mom's care package of decoy remotes
• Patsy's Pasture, Checkpoint Charlie, and why Oakley doesn't need a landmark on the ranch when he's already in its name

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