Netflix Wants HBO, Founders Want Manners, and AI Wants Your Face

Alex and Kevin break in the new Digg warehouse studio with brandy cocktails, French pastry flexes, and a surprisingly serious challenge—can Alex stay sober for all of 2025?

They cover Netflix’s rumored $84B move to buy Warner Bros. Discovery (yes, including HBO and DC Comics), AI tools that drop your face into fake movie scenes, and the rise of “etiquette camps” for startup founders. Also: teens in Australia are happy to be banned from social media, a spider-shaped robot now performs endoscopies, and the famous Japanese 7-Eleven egg salad sandwich finally lands in the U.S.—with questionable results.

All that, plus rucking vests, doomscroll detoxing, and a Kindle Color that might actually be good.

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⏱️ CHAPTERS

00:00 Intro
 03:00 Holiday cocktails get dangerously brandy-forward
 04:41 Kevin explains his weighted rucking vest
 07:23 Inside Digg’s new office + upcoming community features
 13:06 New Year’s goals: chess apps and digital pianos
 15:00 The bet: Can Alex stay sober for all of 2025?
 21:10 Netflix may buy Warner Bros. Discovery for $84B
 30:28 Silicon Valley founders now attend etiquette bootcamp
 41:28 Australian teens are glad social media is banned
 49:10 Nano Banana AI drops you into fake movie scenes
 53:40 Deepfakes, bot farms, and internet misinformation
 1:03:37 Pill-sized robot crawls your gut for science
 1:09:05 Kindle Color Scribe vs. the Remarkable showdown
 1:18:57 Japan’s viral 7-Eleven egg sandwich hits the U.S.