This holiday episode is a greatest hits tour of Diggnation Rebooted with Kevin and Alex in peak end of year form. Scotch gift exchanges and fighting Mike Tyson for $500,000 is a reasonable life choice. There are pronunciation corrections, especially Hyundai, plus plenty of love for retro futuristic concept cars.

AI takes center stage as the duo talks creativity and productivity with tools like Cursor and ChatGPT, including negotiation tricks and extremely questionable AI day trading strategies. The conversation also covers the Telepathy Tapes podcast, autism, neurodiversity, and Alex’s experience with aphantasia. Kevin finally understanding Netflix and chill.

Chapter Markers
00:00 Intro
04:22 Mike Tyson vs $500K
07:52 Hyundai Pronunciation and Car Concepts
13:00 Digg Beta Community Update
16:30 Building AI Web Apps on the Road
18:28 Telepathy Tapes, Autism, and Curiosity
21:56 AI Trading and Bad Financial Ideas
24:55 ChatGPT Negotiation Tactics
29:50 Kevin Discovers Netflix and Chill
31:38 Aphantasia Explained
35:50 Emotions, Money, and Decisions
37:41 End of Year Montage

Alex and Kevin break in the new Digg warehouse studio with brandy cocktails, French pastry flexes, and a surprisingly serious challenge—can Alex stay sober for all of 2025?

They cover Netflix’s rumored $84B move to buy Warner Bros. Discovery (yes, including HBO and DC Comics), AI tools that drop your face into fake movie scenes, and the rise of “etiquette camps” for startup founders. Also: teens in Australia are happy to be banned from social media, a spider-shaped robot now performs endoscopies, and the famous Japanese 7-Eleven egg salad sandwich finally lands in the U.S.—with questionable results.

All that, plus rucking vests, doomscroll detoxing, and a Kindle Color that might actually be good.

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⏱️ CHAPTERS

00:00 Intro
03:00 Holiday cocktails get dangerously brandy-forward
04:41 Kevin explains his weighted rucking vest
07:23 Inside Digg’s new office + upcoming community features
13:06 New Year’s goals: chess apps and digital pianos
15:00 The bet: Can Alex stay sober for all of 2025?
21:10 Netflix may buy Warner Bros. Discovery for $84B
30:28 Silicon Valley founders now attend etiquette bootcamp
41:28 Australian teens are glad social media is banned
49:10 Nano Banana AI drops you into fake movie scenes
53:40 Deepfakes, bot farms, and internet misinformation
1:03:37 Pill-sized robot crawls your gut for science
1:09:05 Kindle Color Scribe vs. the Remarkable showdown
1:18:57 Japan’s viral 7-Eleven egg sandwich hits the U.S.

This week on Diggnation, Kevin ends his seven-month break from alcohol with a glass of wine and some podcast-inspired reflection on why being too rigid about anything might be its own kind of burden, While Alex sips wine and regrets live theater. Kevin reveals he has aphantasia, aka the inability to conjure mental images, which he says disqualifies him from certain forms of _ahem_ nostalgia. The pair dive into the existential horror of AI-enabled children’s toys that suggest you play with knives and explore kinks. On a lighter note, converting vintage cars to electric sparks a surprisingly feasible business idea. Waymo’s freeway rollout gets love, as the duo dreams of an L.A. where robots take the wheel and people take naps. Meanwhile, Michael Burry shorting AI stocks makes Kevin wonder if we’re still in early-internet territory or just early-stage delusion. Bezos launches an AI company because of course he does, and Nintendo drops the first look at its live-action _Zelda_ movie, which may or may not have been necessary. Also: eggnog aging, budgeting apps, and a play that made Alex fear for his life. It’s an episode.

Chapter Markers

00:00:00 - Kevin's First Sip in 7 Months
00:00:56 - Welcome to Episode 23
00:02:58 - Rethinking Alcohol Rules
00:07:44 - Aged Eggnog: Discuss
00:09:25 - The Two-Two-Two Rule Returns
00:12:15 - Birthday Trips and Holiday Plans
00:14:08 - LA Auto Show Highlights
00:15:14 - Converting Classic Cars to EV
00:17:47 - EV Startups: Why It’s Hard
00:19:20 - Zelda Movie: First Look
00:20:26 - Who Is Wes Ball?
00:22:53 - AI Toys Gone Wild
00:24:49 - Kuma Bear’s Kink Talk
00:33:48 - Predator and The Red Carpet
00:34:47 - Christmas Music Timing War
00:37:05 - Kevin Has Aphantasia
00:40:49 - The Spank Bank Problem
00:43:44 - Creativity With Constraints
00:52:56 - Waymo Hits the Freeway
00:53:52 - Driverless Rides + Paranormal Play
01:02:47 - Game Awards: Who’s Nominated
01:08:42 - Burry Bets Against AI
01:10:53 - AI: Bubble or Beginning?
01:18:07 - Internet vs. Quantum Hopes
01:19:30 - Bezos Launches Prometheus AI
01:21:26 - Robots and Retail
01:24:14 - Episode Wrap-Up

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