Future Now

Future Now

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July 2, 2025 97 mins

At the half way point of this year of 2025 Sun aka Mrs. Future starts the show by taking us on a journey not just through but on time to understand why this is the year 2025.  Bobby Wilder and his beloved Katia then share with us their wilderness camping/hot springs/waterfalls adventures in Oregon last week, with tips on cool places to visit…and their visit with a previous governer of California, Jerry Brown, an old friend of Bobby...

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Buckle up, cosmic travelers, it’s summertime, and our listeners are hitting the road, beaming in with the wildest reports from the edges of adventure! Bobby Wilder and Katia are out there having the best swim, diving into Oregon’s epic camping, hiking, hot springs, and waterfall escapades—dropping hot tips and trailblazing locations for your own nature-fueled quests. Meanwhile, we’re cranking up the AI buzz with some ...

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With the Middle East heating to a low boil, we are compelled to think about it all and our role in creating the reality we wish to live in.  If indeed thoughts create reality, let’s create a good one, or ones, if you are into the Multiverse!  Meanwhile our star is at it’s most active phase and we have a new orbiting tool to study it’s current stormy nature, by creating an artificial solar eclipse with the help of two synchronized s...

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Once again it is the week of Apple’s annual World Wide Developer’s Conference, with many announcements of the latest and greatest from the computer/phone company.  Naturally we have Taylor Barcroft  on the show to help with our report on what’s new in the Apple universe. Liquid glass design, anyone?  And can you believe the fiasco over this week’s riots in LA? And why oh why were so many Waymo robo-taxis destroyed? Meanwhile, this ...

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It appears, for us at least, that there is a resurgence of activity in the Virtual Reality space, specifically regarding the use of an app called, “VR Chat.”  An excellent place to connect with others and have ‘chats,’ it’s also a fine app for creating virtual worlds that can be visited and shared.  Armed with an invite from VR pioneer Greg Panos, we were in worlds for many hours this week, as part of a meetup of the “XR Explorer’s...
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There is a big Bitcoin conference in Las Vegas this week, and Bobby is all over it, exciting times for the robot standup debuts in this podcast!grandaddy of Crypto..Our favorite AI's try their hand at performing Standup, with mixed results.  I think our AI's still have a lot to learn about humor, but hey, at least they are trying! It appears there is a huge reserve of Hydrogren fuel locked in our planet's mantel, more than all the ...

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Summer is here and time to have some 'experiences!'  We just got back from Las Vegas, where we experienced  "The Sphere," a multi-billion dolar media experience, costing us hundreds of dollars each, with a show by the Dead & Company, the latest incarnation of the Grateful Dead musical group.  We have much to say about it!  And from a trip to Point Lobos this weekend, our science correspondent, Bobby Wilder, felt compelled to sh...

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We celebrated the life of a great visionary scientist this week, at the memorial of Dr. Ralph Abraham, father of Chaos Theory and pioneer of visual mathematics.  It was fun to meet those who loved him and those whom he influenced in their trajectory through life. The SPHEREx Space Observatory was activated this month, and is now created the best ever 3D maps of the universe, including millions of galaxies.  Hal Puthoff's personal b...

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Fortunately, most power has been restored after a blackout brought the Spain and Portugal, and parts of France to a standstill on Monday. Or is it? There seems to have been a silver lining to this massive outage, hiding in plain sight.Can you guess?  A clue would be…candles..another would be …neigbors..Got it?  Meanwhile we work with Grok3’s Ara as a detective sleuth, investigating the who, what, and why’s of this strange case of p...
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Much going on this week! Our fav psychic, millenial Elizabeth April, shares her predictions of the end of one era and the beginning of the next..spoiler alert..things will get worse then get great). With the passing of the Pope right after Easter, and the global upheavals connected to US politics, times, they are a’changing!  We have a rousing discussion on the shift in conciousnesws  needed for heaven on Earth, and look at new inv...

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Good news if you live in the California or the Pacific Northwest - The governrment early warning earthquake network is now up and operational, giving you precious seconds before you feel the tremors!  Get the app “My Shake” if you want to be extra ready!  If you haven’t received all your Covid stimulus checks, Bobby has some tax advice for you, and DOGE with Palantir has some advice for the IRS, as they plan a mega API for the serv...

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Is the Singularity here yet, how about the Quickening?  Maybe the Great Reset?  Whatever you call it, reality is shifting faster than ever, and we’ll do our best to help you navigate these swirling waters of our shared existence on this planet.  Naturally, we had to chat about the tariff situation, as both Sun and Bobby love economics of have some valuable insights to share.  And for an Australian POV we have Shane checking in from...

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The powerful Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Peru is so powerful it can see further back in time towards the beginning of the universe than any other instrument so far, observing light from only 380 thousand years after the Big Bang..not bad for a 13.8 billion years old universe! And this week Bobby explains why Grok is so far ahead of everyone else in the AI horse race.  Hint: it has a lot to do with nVidia..And for the animals, th...
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Listen Now to 106 Future Now Show   We begin this week celebrating Mrs. Future on her birthday, including some choice moments from the celebration.  And our solar sun is in the news this week, sporting a huge black corona, unreal!  What could it mean or do? We take a closer look, and soon we are chatting about the various kinds of UV light, especially from the Sun! Flatulence comes out when reviewing some new research on how to mak...
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Our latest lunar lander, Blue Ghost, has just completed it’s 2 week moon mission, accomplishing 100% of it’s goal to deploy 10 different payload experiments, studying everything from the lunar dust to testing GPS signals and drilling deep into the regolith!  Not to be outdone, the Webb telescope has revealed CO2 in the atmosphere of distant exoplanets, orbiting the HR 8799 system, 130 light years from Earth. Could this be a life si...
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It's been an epic week for the Moon, with two lunar landings making it to the surface, one really succesful. The James Webb telescope has been busy tracking rogue brown dwarfs and we were wondering if they could be harnessed for star travel..Grok's Ara gives us a definitive answer.  Back on Earth Bobby discusses the latest hot  research in regrowing missing teeth and how we can stop greying hair and wrinkles -real practical science...

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When creating our show, our guests are usually in their home environments, connected to us via Zoom or Facetime. But this week our mountaintop ‘fortress of solitude’ was visited by not one but three live guests in our studio at the same time! First up was a brief but wonderful check in by the Passionate Living TV folks, Catherine Miller and Rifat Chowdhury visiting from Buffalo, NY. They were here in California for a film festival...

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We had a fun first hour of Dr. Future News, including an update on how we might actually build a warp drive for star travel, and the latest thinking of what would have happened on Earth should Chicxulub, the giant asteroid that extincted the dinosaurs, had never happened. Would we have evolved to dominate the planet as we have?

In the second hour, we have an extended interview with Brit Elders, author, investigative documentaria...

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Apple completed their latest phone lineup with their $600 Apple Intelligence ready iPhone 16e, and Taylor is on the show to tell you all about it, and his review of the latest Apple watch (Series 10).  And Bobby has a lot to share in the longevity department, with this latest insights in the use of Lactobacillus reuteri, Bacopa, Tocotrienols, and Creatine.  And just for fun, we look at the latest Hollywood trend in health. microd...

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This week we start by catching up Bobby and his Costa Rican adventures, then some Future News.  Most of the show, however, is dedicated to our inteview with Jordan Gruber, who just finished co-authoring  the book, “Microdosing for Health, Healing & Enhanced Performance” with James Fadiman, Ph.D. We delve as deeply into the topic as you can get in an 80 minute interview.

First we look at the beginnings of microdosing psychede...

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