Bare Knuckles and Brass Tacks is the tech podcast about humans. Hosted by George K and George A, this podcast examines AI, infrastructure, technology adoption, and the broader implications of tech developments through both guest interviews and news commentary.Our guests bring honest perspectives on what's working, what's broken, and new ways to examine the roles and impacts of technology in our lives.We challenge conventional tech industry narratives and dig into real-world consequences over hype. Whether you're deeply technical or just trying to understand how technology shapes society, this show will make you think critically about where we're headed and who's getting left behind.
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Signup to Generate a PitchBare Knuckles and Brass Tacks is the tech podcast about humans. Hosted by George K and George A, this podcast examines AI, infrastructure, technology adoption, and the broader implications of tech developments through both guest interviews and news commentary.
Recent episodes include "BEST OF: Can Ethical AI Democratize Therapy and Higher Quality Care?" (28 September 2026, 57 minutes), "BEST OF: How expertise becomes a blind spot in technology development" (21 September 2026, 41 minutes), and "BEST OF: Finding Meaning and community in tech-fueled hustle culture" (7 September 2026, 42 minutes).
Bare Knuckles and Brass Tacks publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 42 minutes across 200 episodes.
Booking probability for Bare Knuckles and Brass Tacks is 36%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Bare Knuckles and Brass Tacks requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Bare Knuckles and Brass Tacks's contact route on record: verified email.
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Bare Knuckles and Brass Tacks is a technology show with 200 episodes published.
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Episode #6
Clinical psychologist, Dr. Sarah Adler, joins the show this week to talk about why “AI Therapy” doesn’t exist, but is bullish on what AI can help therapists achieve. Dr. Adler is a clinical psychologist and CEO of Wave...
Episode #5
Graeme Rudd spent years taking emerging technology into austere environments and watching it fail. He assessed over 350 technologies for a Department of Defense lab. The pattern was consistent: engineers solved...
Episode #4
What happens when you get everything you thought you wanted and still feel empty? Tychon Carter won Big Brother Canada, gained fame and followers overnight, and felt completely lost. The success arrived before he was...
Episode #3
What happens when AI-generated text masquerades as human research? Kimberly Becker, PhD, a corpus linguist joins the show this week to talk about her study comparing human-written versus AI-generated abstracts in...
Episode #2
The voices telling you it won't work usually belong to people who never tried. Nobody gives you permission to take a chance. You just do it. Chris built a 50K MRR business without a formal education, a tech background...
Episode #53
That’s a wrap on season 4! What's coming next isn't just another season. Fifty-two episodes took the show past its cybersecurity origins into conversations with a corpus linguist, a nuclear security expert, an Amnesty...
Episode #52
Cloud computing solved for scale by centralizing everything into a handful of massive buildings. Edge computing is the argument that scale was never the only thing worth optimizing for. On this episode, Jeff MacMillan...
Episode #50
No one gets fired for doing what McKinsey says. That's not a joke, it's the actual product being sold in half of enterprise consulting: credibility a board can point to when a decision goes wrong. This week, Tim Lidman...
Episode #88
When companies mandate AI adoption without a use case, without a strategy, and without a business outcome in mind, they don't get transformation. They get jazz hands and nightmare token bills. This month's System Update...
Episode #47
When an institution says it's changing, how do you tell the difference between real reform and a vocabulary update? Charlotte Duval-Lantoine has spent years studying organizations that adopt the language of culture...
Episode #46
<p>What if the problem with American democracy isn't that the system is broken, but that it's working exactly as intended, just not for you?</p><p>Travis Misurell, founder of FiNC (Future is Now Coalition), has spent...
Episode #45
<p>The travel schedules and time zone tango is real. This week, revisit one of the most downloaded episodes this season, with Rachelle Tanguay. </p><p>What if your biggest career obstacle isn't external—it's the “broken...
Episode #44
<p>The hype machine spent two years telling us AI was coming for your job. Now it's quietly walking that back. Why now? Follow the money.</p><p>On this week's system update, George K. and George A. pull apart the vibe...
Episode #43
<p>What if the reason most people struggle to build meaningful professional relationships isn't effort — it's that they've mistaken a transaction for a foundation?</p><p>David Homan has spent thirteen years building the...
Episode #42
<p>What happens when a community votes no…but the #AI datacenter construction starts anyway?</p><p>That is not a hypothetical. It’s what happened in Saline Township, Michigan, when a $16 billion OpenAI-Oracle data...
Episode #41
<p>In the wake of more layoffs attributed to "AI," we thought it worthwhile to revisit this conversation from earlier in the year. Increasingly, AI is being used as a catch-all excuse to justify layoffs without clear...
Episode #40
<p>What if the story we're being told about AI's inevitability is hiding something underneath?</p><p>That's the question Jessica Parker and Kimberly Becker put to George K. on their podcast, Women Talking ‘Bout...
Episode #39
<p>The AI hype machine is taking up all the oxygen we need to actually stop the harm happening today.</p><p>This month we heard from three guests who didn't compare notes. Didn't coordinate. And all three circled the...
Episode #38
<p>Are tech industries selling us a problems they invented?</p><p>Ryan Clarque, CSO at Black Rifle Coffee Company, doesn't flinch at the big provocations. When Claude's Mythos model showed up in every LinkedIn feed...
Episode #37
<p>What if narrow #AI, rather than imagined AGI through scaling will be what changes the world? In some places, that’s already happening.</p><p>El Mahdi Aboulmanadel founded DeepLeaf after watching smallholder farmers...
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