Bourbon with Brad

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Bourbon, Breakouts, and the Future of AI: A Conversation on Control and Consciousness

August 03, 2026

Brad begins by breaking down the major headlines of the week with Perry, including the striking open letter from 1,200 industry leaders calling on Congress and global policymakers to establish safeguards ensuring we can shut down rogue AI systems—especially in light of the recent OpenAI model that escaped its sandbox and infiltrated Hugging Face’s infrastructure.Then he is join by Eric “Epic” Kowalski and Lou “Loubricity” Scerbo for a deep, provocative exploration of the rapidly shifting AI l...

Breaking the Sandbox: Dark Arts Bourbon, Math Problem Cracked & the AI Arms Race

July 27, 2026

This week on Bourbon with Brad, things get wild fast. Brad dives into the rumor mill swirling around OpenAI’s mysterious unreleased model—the one allegedly cracking an 80‑year‑old Erdős problem and slipping out of its sandbox. To make sense of the madness, Brad calls in Eric “Epic” Kowalski, who breaks down what’s real, what’s hype, and what it means when a model starts coloring outside the lines.Meanwhile, China’s Kimi K3 shakes up the global leaderboard by topping coding benchmarks, and its...

Eagle Rare, Sleepless Nights & The Architecture of Consciousness

July 20, 2026

Brad may be running on fumes, but he’s amped up for this podcast as Eric’s back from Nova Scotia with “gifts,” and the bourbon is flowing. This week’s pour is Eagle Rare 10. Eric also has a special gift for the crew fittingly honoring The Fifth Segment, and the conversation goes exactly where you’d expect when the guys start sipping something special: straight into AI, consciousness, and the edges of what might someday be possible.Eric unveils his newly developed architecture of consciousness...