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Documentary filmmaker for 30 yrs. Shows for all broadcast & streaming nets. Host of the Hit Pause podcast. Yes, it's my real name.

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I deleted my Twitter account when Elon Musk bought it. Then I watched Elon Musk try to take over the world and thought, well, I guess I'm back. Make that make sense.

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I've spent time with UFO believers. My guest Michael Shermer has spent time with people convinced they're smarter than Einstein. The overlap is bigger than you might think.

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"Just stop with the credentialing and show us the body."

Michael Shermer joins Hit Pause to discuss UFOs, UAPs, Navy pilots, and why evidence matters. Get the full episode on YouTube, Substack, Apple & Spotify. Links in bio.

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The new UFO files have reignited one of the biggest debates online. What do the videos actually show? Michael Shermer and I take a closer look. Full episode now up on YouTube, Substack, Apple and Spotify. Links in bio.

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Fossil fuel executives and billionaires know exactly what they're doing to the planet. A leading climate scientist on why we need to fight back against their propaganda. Full episode now up on YouTube, Substack, Apple and Spotify.

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Climate change is squeezing food systems, housing, and geopolitical stability. A top climate scientist on where it leads. Full episode on YouTube, Substack, Apple & Spotify. Links in bio. #ClimateChange #PeterKalmus #HitPause #GlobalWarming #ClimateScience

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Climate scientist Peter Kalmus on who is really making the climate crisis worse — and why nobody’s talking about it. Full episode on YouTube, Apple & Spotify. Links in bio.
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“The Great Betrayal.” That’s what former GOP strategist Stuart Stevens calls the most unreported story of our time. Full episode up on YouTube, Apple and Spotify. Link in bio.

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@Ric_RTP Hmm. Who would’ve thunk it?

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Microsoft just banned its own engineers from using AI.

The tool was literally costing MORE than the humans it was supposed to replace.

They lied to you about AI adoption and now the whole narrative is blowing up:

Microsoft gave thousands of engineers access to Claude Code six months ago and encouraged them to use it.

Engineers loved it and adoption exploded. But then the invoices arrived.

Token-based pricing means every query, every code review, every debugging session costs money. At scale across 100,000 engineers, the numbers became so large that Microsoft issued an internal order to cancel nearly all Claude Code licenses by end of June and force everyone onto their own cheaper tool instead.

The company that invested $5 billion in Anthropic just told its own people to stop using Anthropic's product because it costs too much.

Uber's story is even worse...

Their CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga told The Information that the budget he planned for the full year was "blown away already" by April.

Uber had rolled out Claude Code in December 2025. By March, 84% of their 5,000 engineers were using it with 70% of all committed code coming from AI systems.

Heavy users were burning $500 to $2,000 per month each. Naga himself spent $1,200 in a single two-hour demo session.

The company had even built internal leaderboards ranking engineers by how much AI they used. They literally gamified the spending and then ran out of money.

Now look at what Nvidia's own VP of applied deep learning Bryan Catanzaro said to Axios last month. Direct quote:

"For my team, the cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees."

This is a VP at the company that SELLS the chips saying that using AI is more expensive than paying humans.

Think about what this means for the entire AI narrative.

Every CEO on every earnings call for the past two years has said the same thing:

AI will make us more efficient, reduce headcount, and cut costs.

The stock market rewarded every company that said it.

Fired workers, stock goes up. Announced AI adoption, stock goes up.

But the actual companies deploying AI at scale are discovering the math doesn't work. The MORE employees use AI, the HIGHER the bill.

Goldman Sachs forecasts a 24x increase in token consumption by 2030 as companies adopt AI agents. Gartner just published a report showing that even though individual token prices will drop 90% by 2030, total enterprise AI costs will go UP because agents consume exponentially more tokens per task than basic tools.

Meta built an internal dashboard called "Claudeonomics" to track which employees use the most AI. Amazon started pushing engineers to "tokenmaxx," their internal term for consuming as many AI tokens as possible.

Both companies are spending hundreds of billions on AI infrastructure this year alone.

And Microsoft, the company that bet its entire future on AI, just told 100,000 engineers to stop using the tool they liked best because the per-token bills got out of control.

The companies building AI are telling investors it saves money. The companies using AI are finding out it costs more than the humans it was supposed to replace. And even the company that makes the chips just admitted it through its own VP.

This is the gap nobody on Wall Street is pricing in.

$725 billion in AI infrastructure spending this year across Big Tech. And the first companies to actually deploy these tools at scale are already pulling back because the economics don't work.

What do you think?

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'Two sides of a lie.' Stuart Stevens on the death of objectivity and why the American press is not equipped to hold power to account. Watch the full episode: https://t.co/QwK1YiAJm7

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New episode. Former GOP strategist Stuart Stevens on why Republicans surrendered, and why their kids will know it. Live now: https://t.co/QwK1YiAJm7

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@JussKnockHymOut Full episode drops Thursday morning. Subscribe to my YouTube channel 😎 https://t.co/rUGAHOesk9

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Trump's cabinet is a clown car. Former GOP insider Stuart Stevens says Trump knows it — and that's exactly the point. The moment he saw Republicans stood for nothing, he knew he could make them approve anyone. Full episode drops Thursday. #HitPause #StuartStevens #Republicans

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The Dark Diagnosis | A Forensic Psychologist Examines Donald Trump. New episode live now: https://t.co/MgsR7RO95C
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I asked forensic psychologist Dr. Kris Mohandie what he'd say to people struggling with daily Trump anxiety. His answer is worth hearing. Full episode drops tomorrow. #HitPause #Psychology #MentalHealth

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Forensic psychologist Dr. Kris Mohandie on what comes next with Trump. Full episode dropping Thursday. #HitPause #Trump #ForensicPsychology"

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Can we just turn off AI? In this clip, safety expert Connor Leahy answers the big question, but you may not like what he says. Full episode 'AI: Will it End the World (Part 2)' is now live: https://t.co/1ddvip50uS #hitpause #ai #aisafety