TLPP: Pirate Wires' Lead Editor Harris Sockel

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🗓️ 31 March 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Lou is joined by Harris Sockel, lead editor at Pirate Wires — the tech media outlet that actually likes technology. They cover AI replacing doctors, humanoid robots, data center myths, California's billionaire exodus, and why the media's doom-and-gloom coverage of tech keeps getting it wrong. TOPICS COVERED: 00:00 — Intro: What is Pirate Wires? 04:30 — AI doom coverage vs. reality: why the scaremongers won't go full prepper 09:00 — Hill & Valley DC: when Capitol Hill meets Silicon Valley 14:00 — Lou's experience using Claude AI (press kits, writing courses, contracts) 20:00 — Can AI actually replace long-form journalism? Harris weighs in 26:00 — AI chatbots, teen suicides, and Spain's euthanasia case 33:00 — Humanoid robots: sex, cooking, and charging them in the hallway 42:00 — The data center water myth, debunked 50:00 — Nuclear power's comeback and what Biden got wrong on AI regulation 56:00 — Lou's doctor pulled up ChatGPT mid-appointment 01:02:00 — Self-driving cars and the future of driving as a rich-person hobby 01:08:00 — DSA activists at a Starbucks strike (who didn't work at Starbucks) 01:15:00 — California's wealth tax, billionaire flight, and "we left because of communists" 01:22:00 — SAG-AFTRA dues, union reality vs. union mythology HARRIS SOCKEL & PIRATE WIRES: Pirate Wires: https://www.piratewires.com Follow Harris: @harrissockel Lou's book — That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore: On the Death and Rebirth of Comedy: https://amzn.to/3VhFa1r The Lou Perez Podcast on all platforms: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lou-perez-podcast/id1535032081 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2KAtC7eFS3NHWMZp2UgMVU TheLouPerez.com | info@thelouperez.com Newsletter: https://substack.com/@louperez #AIpodcast #PirateWires #TechPodcast #ArtificialIntelligence #HumanoidRobots #FreeSpeech #LouPerezPodcast #CaliforniaExodus #SketchComedy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Springs blooming at Starbucks.
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0:23.8	Uber Vanilla, pouring now at Starbucks.
0:27.4	Subject to availability while stocks last.
0:35.0	Hey guys, welcome back to the Lou Perez podcast on the Lions of Liberty Podcast Network.
0:41.0	I am joined today by the lead editor over at PirateWires, Mr. Harris Sokol.
0:48.1	Harris.
0:49.3	Hey?
0:50.2	Thanks for joining me.
0:51.1	For those of you who are just listening, if you guys haven't checked out Pirate Wires, it is a stupendous online magazine where you guys go, you guys talk about tech, culture, politics with a particular emphasis, I guess what's happening in Silicon Valley, California, New York.
1:13.1	And I think you guys really peaked when you published something that I wrote.
1:17.5	And Harris was the editor of it.
1:19.2	So I wrote a piece came out, I guess like a month ago, a couple months ago, about police
1:23.9	body cams.
1:25.0	And Harris worked with me on it.
1:28.3	He did a, he did a fantastic job working with me.
1:31.5	And I'm, I appreciate it.
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