KABGemini podcasts project#

Last tended 2026-02-18

I'm a technologist, a driven knowledge seeker, AND a fitness jogger. When jogging each day, I mostly listen to audio books (thank you Jefferson County and Denver public libraries!). However, I have a spectrum of interests, for some of which neither audiobooks or podcasts offer content. I want to fill gaps such as these:

• emergent topics too recent to be addressed by audiobook
• topics that have been featured in audio, but that I want to probe in a different way
• a synthesis of two or more topics that seem to me to be compellingly related
• really old topics, including deep dives into decades-old books that are unlikely to ever be put in audio format

My technologist's solution: leverage the vast toolkit of free services and tools available -- to make the exact podcasts I want. Currently, I collaborate with Google Gemini 3 AI to produce a written podcast script of the desired run time and content depth. Then, I use still more free tools to turn the script into podcast audio. I hope you enjoy them.

The podcast library#

	The biological mismatch: 50,000-year-old hardware in a symbolic world From a collaboration with Google Gemini 3 Flash/Free-Tier (February 17, 2026) Explores how we humans are essentially running 21st-century software (finance, social hierarchies, existential dread) on 50,000-year-old hardware that only knows how to speak the language of biological survival. 33 minutes
	Vaulting forward: how New Deal thinking launched the future From a collaboration with Google Gemini 3 Flash/Free-Tier (February 15, 2026) As it became clear to Franklin Delano Roosevelt that U.S. entry into WWII was inevitable, at the core of his response was to use his key new-deal compatriots and new-deal lessons-learned for a massive mobilization and convergence of U.S. science expertise, industrial expertise, logistics expertise, and natural resources capacity. There is no disputing the resulting stunning vault forward. 68 minutes
	The architecture of 'as if': why the abstraction is the reality From a collaboration with Google Gemini 3 Flash/Free-Tier (February 12, 2026) I'd been thinking about the concept of "abstraction layers" as used in the world of Operating Systems, and about its relation to the "analogies as symbols" notions that are featured in the work of Anil Seth and his co-researchers. The connections to the thinking and research of other luminaries unfolded, and we eventually got to how the abstract symbol or layer can be said to have a "realness" or relevance every bit the equal of the material thing. 54 minutes
	B-17: grim crucible of Bert Stiles' prose From a book discussion with Google Gemini 3 Flash/Free-Tier (February 9, 2026) Bert Stiles was an aspiriing writer/student at Colorado College when the US's entry into World War II produced an unexpected "appointment" for him with a metal monster that became known as the Flying Fortress. Fortunately for posterity, he treated the opportunity as his muse, a muse that turned more grim with each flight. 59 minutes
	Amplituhedron: jewel at the end of spacetime From a collaboration with Google Gemini 3 Flash/Free-Tier (February 6, 2026) As I write this, Amplituhedron theory is well on its way to dethroning spacetime from fundamental status. We explore the theory and how it has evolved and improved to establish its acceptance. We explore how spacetime's utility is now in something akin to the status of Newtonian physics with respect to space flight: still useful in non-relativistic cases, and we explore where Amplituhedron theory may lead us next. 64 minutes
	The Balfour Declaration saga re-examined From a collaboration with Google Gemini 3 Flash/Free-Tier (February 4, 2026) We re-examine the history of the Balfour Declaration spanning from the earliest point of the UK elites considering making such a declaration right up to how it was received and reacted to by all of the stakeholders as it came to their attention after its release. 69 minutes

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