Not Dead! Family Crises, AI Converts, and Things Worth Being Angry About
Catching Foxes
Luke and Gomer
4.7 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
After a two-month hiatus, Luke and Gomer are back. This episode opens with a conversation about Gomer's father Don's ongoing health decline, the emotional and logistical chaos of elder care, and the conversations no one prepares you to have. From there, the fellas pivot to AI, the World Cup, Hollywood Botox, and the slow enshitification of everything.
In This Episode:
- The full story of Gomer's dad Don's hip replacement, repeated ER visits, and the family's difficult reckoning with permanent skilled nursing care
- What no one tells you about Medicaid's "look back" provisions, the true cost of elder care, and why planning ahead matters far more than most families realize
- Gomer's complete 180 on AI and how tools like Claude and ChatGPT have become indispensable for managing his father's medical records, medications, and care in real time
- Euthanasia, modern medicine's ability to keep people alive without keeping them well, and what it means to age with dignity
- What they're angry, excited, and concerned about: home construction costs, the Fox Sports World Cup AI ad, The Iliad film, and Hollywood's Botox problem
Chapters:
- 00:00: Welcome Back
- 02:07: Gomer's Dad's Health Crisis
- 10:06: End-of-Life Conversations
- 18:54: Navigating Elder Care and Medicaid
- 31:39: Euthanasia, Modern Medicine, and Keeping People Alive
- 42:43: From AI Skeptic to AI Convert
- 51:29: AI in Practice: Research and Healthcare
- 01:06:37: What Are You Angry, Excited, and Concerned About?
- 01:10:09: The Enshitification of Everything
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Produced by Saint Kolbe Studios
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| 0:00.0 | Well, the bummer is that I made a bunch of really good jokes that now can't be used. |
| 0:04.4 | Nah, that's okay. |
| 0:05.7 | Luke, I'm excited to talk about our topic today. |
| 0:07.8 | You ready for this? |
| 0:08.9 | I'm ready. |
| 0:10.5 | And shitification. |
| 0:15.0 | That's what you, I said, what do you want to talk about today? |
| 0:17.6 | And that's what you said. |
| 0:18.7 | So I'm like, okay, got it. |
| 0:24.4 | And shitification. Did you do any research uh no you know actually sort of sort of I have a couple experiments on |
| 0:30.5 | inshittification and uh and other things so I would it do me by that also how are you |
| 0:37.2 | it's been a minute it's been things so i what did you mean by that also how are you |
| 0:37.6 | it's a minute it's been a minute it's been a month and a half since we talked |
| 0:43.6 | here's the thing we were going to and it might be a bit longer since we've recorded |
| 0:48.6 | so we i was like doing i i honestly thought I'm so tired right now. |
| 0:56.6 | So I am not of well, a mind and body. |
| 1:00.3 | So I know, |
| 1:01.2 | Brer, |
| 1:01.9 | poor, |
| 1:02.8 | poor, |
| 1:03.1 | Luke, poor Luke. |
| 1:06.1 | He's so busy as a employed man with responsibilities and a well-balanced love life oh that's beautiful |
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