Welcome back to Behind the Bastards, the very podcast about, wait, shit, bad people podcast, the worst in all of history.

I'm the host of the show and also bad at introducing it.

Let's distract everyone from me being yet again incompetent at the one thing I have to do other than read a script and bring on our guest, Ed Zittron. Ed, how you doing today?

What's up? I'm Gray.

You're great? That's good. That's better than bad. Ed, you have a podcast called Better Offline, don't you?

I do. And you talk about a number of things on that show, but you've gained a great deal of fame

and notoriety lately by repeatedly calling out a lot of the grifty and conny aspects of what

some people call the AI Revolution.

I think that would be fair to say.

And you're working on a book right now,

aren't you?

Ed?

You want to give the audience the title of that book?

It's called Why Everything Stoped Working and it's about how everything stopped working

due to technology and how we got to where we are today, which kind of fucking sucks.

That is a great premise and I can't wait for the book and I wanted to help you out with some research, Ed, on something that's kind of off the beaten

path and not directly involved with the tech industry that you've reported on.

But in terms of like how people fall for cons and specifically con technology products, it's a really important story.

And so I think you might get some value in hearing it, even though it's technically set in an

industry that's not your immediate industry.

This is a defense industry technology story.

Have you ever heard the story about the bomb detectors that didn't work that everyone

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