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- 09 / 02 / 2026 -
Nobody is in good shape right now, Alex is in Greece, there won't be an "Overtime" tonight because people are either sick or far away, how whatever is going around has affected people who didn't even go to any conferences, Alex is in a place where the lights just went out and he's unable to figure out how to turn them back on, a follow-up on the cable issue brought up last week, word of the "public interest Internet" which is designed to provide resources to help the public and not simply make money, feedback to the X10 discussion, Mayor Mamdani announces a one-year ban on generative artificial intelligence through eighth grade, Alex expresses doubt as to whether this will work, Rob notes the significance of such a policy being implemented in this day and age, Alex predicts teachers will oppose this policy, Alex tells how South Korea has given everyone unlimited access to A.I. tools, how Emmanuel uses A.I., Kyle's perspective on comparing South Korea's way of doing things to ours, the danger of getting hooked on A.I., Emmanuel can't find Lake Ontario, a Flock camera ban in Florida, difficulty prosecuting people who are vandalizing Flock cameras, the issue of defaced license plates and the reasons behind it, Kyle explains how the social contract can break down when abuse of privacy is revealed, Alex discusses how driving has turned into a national tracking grid, why Ring doorbells can be a bad idea, there will be 2600 meetings this Friday.
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September 2
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- 09 / 09 / 2026 -
Alex ditches the show at the last minute leaving Emmanuel in rare form, a story about LG televisions that spy on customers, the 25th anniversary of 9/11 is upcoming, what we haven't learned in 25 years, Emmanuel remembers where he was on 9/11, the ignorance and hatred involved in trying to keep Mayor Mamdani from attending 9/11 ceremonies, troubling movements in several European countries, Gila compares the present to 2001, Rob describes how temporary measures turned into a way of life, Kyle explains why such measures are performative, how it's easy to be labeled a terrorist these days, Gila describes culture changes that have left us with less freedom, people are now allowed to walk with passengers to the gate under certain circumstances, the Mamdani administration releases documents on air quality after 9/11 that had been kept from the public for 25 years, the parallels to the Chernobyl cover-up, Kyle talks about how things could have been better prioritized in the immediate aftermath, Emmanuel reads some of the particulars from the documents, how Mamdani's administration may get sued as representatives of the city that covered this up, questioning what we would do if we stumbled upon this information while it was being suppressed, the hope that decency will prevail, how two-hour demonstrations every few months isn't enough to change things, why leaks are so important, Kyle calls for big tech companies to be held to account for collaborating with Trump, Gila describes how gopdallas2026.com redirects to the Epstein files, acknowledging the things that make you feel less hopeless, sharing in the dialogue is critical.
Overtime: The difficulty in doing the shows with reduced staff, everyone has recovered from being sick, trying to spin things in a positive direction, the importance of talking to each other, how the opposition is too timid, Democrats have to stop being afraid of socialists, both progressives and moderates need to act like they're on the same team, why we don't need more Fettermans, a researcher from Anthropic resigned with a very ominous message, the prospect of the human race being wiped out by A.I. in the near future, the positive aspects of A.I., where it turns into a real threat, Rebel criticizes the Wounded Warrior Project, a question about the data that Google gets from a Ring camera, Rebel brings up the "Park Avenue massacre," a fake Emmanuel calls in, trying to mess with it, how to fix the Internet, a lot of crazy background noise, Gila makes a difficult choice, aftermath of a high quality deep fake resignation of a politician, an accusation that CBC won't refer to the 9/11 attacks as terrorism, Gila accuses Rebel of being wrong on the chat, Gila clarifies the CBC story, "South Park" has been renamed "South America."
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September 9
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Off The Hook Overtime
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Off The Hook Overtime is also available on the Channel2600 YouTube channel here:
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- 09 / 16 / 2026 -
The wrong link for "Overtime" was sent out and has to be fixed while everyone is on the air, the A.I. story continues, the full resignation letter of Jacob Coxon of Anthropic, Rob expresses doubt that A.I. will be capable of doing the things that are feared, how this whole thing is likely just hype, Alex also expresses doubt in the danger of A.I., Emmanuel is worried that we're losing our understanding of the technology that's being developed, the danger of having A.I. start making the decisions, this is the time to have the conversation, Kyle explains why this critique borders on denial, how time will change how this discussion goes, how we could be giving permission to do nothing, Rob describes the concern as vaporware, questioning what someone like Coxon could possibly gain from making these allegations, Emmanuel asks for respected people in the field to come forward and let us know if they don't believe there's a threat here, why Alex doesn't trust Silicon Valley insiders, Rob explains how there are other ways to attack this issue such as the environmental cost of data centers, Emmanuel tries to get people to take this more seriously, Kyle tries to define what would convince people to believe there's an actual threat here, Emmanuel parallels fearmongering of the past with the current warnings, wondering why we wouldn't want to slow down a bit so we can understand the technology better, fighting the idea that this is inevitable, the fact that humans still have control, the links for "Overtime" have been fixed, Emmanuel tells of an office that has banned any posters made by artificial intelligence, discussing how to tell the difference.
Overtime: Overcoming some turmoil, wondering what happened to the people who went to the wrong link, Emmanuel is dealing with reconfiguring a machine that rebooted itself, Rob reports on a visual archive of "Byte Magazine," how it's possible to search the entire archive, the first mention of A.I. in "Byte" was in 1977, Gila reports on the pros and cons of taking the Acela, the system used on trains in Europe that lets you know when and for how long a seat is reserved, Alex tells the story of finding someone in his seat on a train to Washington DC, Emmanuel explains how to get all the way to Washington DC on local transit, Emmanuel's experience of someone in Denmark being in his train seat, Alex is trying to find the 800 number for the Oncor operator, memories of the graffiti wall at the first HOPE, Rob reveals the Oncor phone number and why it was funny, Oncor was also known as OCI, a question about SGI machines from the past, Google Voice is having problems which is affecting the call-in line, Rob describes the demo scene of today and how things used to work with very small files, the phone starts working again on its own, Rebel notices radio stations that say "guaranteed human," Rebel makes a call to Intelli-Call, a recording in response to a spoofed number, Rob explains how it used to be possible to find out who owned a toll-free number, a possible modern equivalent, how entire toll-free exchanges would be tied to certain phone companies, Emmanuel's opinion on the best train systems, Alex recalls a fast train from Stockholm's airport to the city center, the phone is only ringing once before being transferred, rating subways, how "applied statistics" is a different way of saying "artificial intelligence," Alex tries to meet Gila's challenge for A.I. to create a poem in spondaic monometer, Emmanuel's retort, Alex's parallel of A.I. to mad cow disease, Rob brings up a novela entitled "The Machine Stops."
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September 16
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Off The Hook Overtime
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- 09 / 23 / 2026 -
Emmanuel is engineering by himself tonight, realizing how hard Kyle's job is, Alex explains what happened to him two weeks ago, how getting to a friend's funeral proved daunting in the wake of an air traffic controller problem, another air traffic control issue affected Kyle's trip to Seattle, how he had to negotiate an alternative route, how the airline wanted to route him through Honolulu, Alex reveals the cause of the issue that affected the entire air traffic control system during his trip, Kyle and Emmanuel explain how two systems failed and ground all flights, Rob and Gila ride the Acela again, Trump has renamed artificial intelligence to super intelligence, waiting for the first Trumpers to start using this term, Emmanuel asks Alex about all the screaming in the background, revealing that .si is the top level domain for Slovenia, how this could point to even more Trump corruption, how Trump has made vastly more money as president than all of the previous presidents combined, how that level of corruption is being tolerated, wondering what's taking so long for people to react, the solidarity shown in the press this week when certain media outlets were kicked out of the White House, Alex explains why people are giving up trying to get Trump prosecuted or removed, Emmanuel explains how the system is flawed, how a computer system this defective would be replaced, the FBI has been hacked, all FBI employees and applicants are allegedly affected, Alex explains how serious this breach is, how concern for the individual people affected is different from condemnation of the agency for losing its way, Rob explains how the breach unfolded, wondering if the FBI would actually pay a ransom for their data, why ShinyHunters should give Amazon some credit for making the hack possible, Australia's government is considering banning the wearing of smart glasses in federal workplaces, Alex comes up with additional reasons why the glasses should be banned in that environment, Kyle expresses concern over all of the other people being victimized by these glasses, the potential good uses of the technology, Gila's run-in with the glasses at the nail salon, wondering where the data may be going and who has access to it, how to donate to WBAI.
Overtime: Waiting for YouTube to catch up, Emmanuel is impressed by the difficulty of Kyle's job now that he's doing it, Kyle's attention to detail, Emmanuel follows instructions to turn his video on for the other hosts, Emmanuel realizes he has to pick up the phone on the other side of the room, how Kyle built the studio, Kyle describes some of the equipment, Kyle's fight to get DSL access restored, how talking to a human made things much easier, some quotes from an online chat that Kyle had with a strange representative, Emmanuel's experience trying to get a landline fixed for nearly a month, Alex announces a version of the smart glasses that don't record video, what Mark Zuckerberg said to enrage everyone on the show, how tech oligarchs pushed back against Trump during his first term and completely cooperated during his second term, how the founding fathers were against the forming of political parties, why Zuckerberg should be renamed Pieface, Rebel reports on a new Village Voice, Alex shares facts on the publication's return, Rob is suspicious of the content, memories of the old publication, Alex bemoans the lack of a comprehensive music listing anywhere, complaints about Rebel repeating content, Alex reads an FDR quote that applies to today, Kyle discusses the loss of institutional memory, why it's no wonder that Google has lost its way, Kyle coins the phrase "prostitutional democracy," Emmanuel gets instructions on how to add the phone number to the screen, trying to figure out some phone problems, this is another Google issue, a call from the telephone historian, revealing the name of the WBAI program from the 1970s that focused on drugs, going through the history and trivia of New York City radio stations, an update on Alex's ham radio license journey, wondering how Alex wears so many hats, Alex's trip to Bletchley Park, how there is a ham radio setup on the International Space Station, more trivia, Gila is being evacuated from the office she's in, questioning whether next week will be a WBAI call-in show.
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September 23
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Off The Hook Overtime
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- 09 / 30 / 2026 -
Kyle is still away, tonight is a call-in show, there will be no "Overtime" tonight, the FBI story continues to grow, "Hackers Hack the FBI's Hacker Unit" is the headline, the scope of this breach, wondering if it's even possible to recover from something like this, the responsibility of Kash Patel, how it's impossible to trust ShinyHunters to keep to their word not to release data, Alex explains how threat actors themselves could be compromised, how informants and potential employees may have been exposed, Emmanuel is fascinated by the an FBI assistant director's cool last name, the FBI asks ShinyHunters to get in touch, ShinyHunters was supposedly upset at the way they had been characterized in a previous FBI communication, wondering if they're in danger now because of these developments, Emmanuel is filling in for Kyle on the phones, Emmanuel is concerned whether callers will be able to hear him on a different microphone, callers report on their experiences calling in, "artificial intelligence and natural stupidity," a health system in Australia is hacked by artificial intelligence, a listener gives info on free A.I. coding, Rob questions whether an A.I. agent can go rogue, Trump doubles down on preventing A.I. from being regulated, a "morally binding" accord with A.I. leaders, "United States" is spelled wrong in an important document from Trump, a listener draws a parallel to Chernobyl, there are 2600 meetings this Friday, the monthly call-in will take place on the first Wednesday of the month starting in November, closing remarks.
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September 30
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