Grill, Chill & Gemini

Insanely Great Podcast — Memorial Day Edition 🍔

Episode recorded: May 24, 2026

Show Notes

Fire up the grill, crack open a cold one, and let Christopher and DJ keep you company while you flip burgers. This Memorial Day edition is a buffet of tech takes, hot rants, and pop culture detours — perfect for that backyard hang.

On the menu this week:

🤖 Google I/O lays the smackdown. Gemini 3.5 Flash now allegedly outguns 3.1 Pro at half the power, Gemini Spark is the big consumer cloud play, and we got a sneak peek at what Siri could be if Apple ever caught up. Spoiler: Apple is paying billions for a whitelisted, watered-down Gemini and the guys aren't sure why.

👓 The smart glasses arms race. Meta's Ray-Bans, Oakleys, Apple's incoming pair, and now Google's at the party too. DJ returned his Oakleys (vertical video — really, Meta?) and Christopher's Ray-Bans live on the shelf 90% of the time. Four-hour battery life is, in technical terms, "abysmal."

🏗️ Android 17 "Cinnamon Bun" gets deeper Gemini integration. In other shocking news, water is wet.

🛠️ Google Antigravity and the slow death of the IDE — just tell the AI what to code and walk away.

🍌 Nano Banana 2 keeps being magical, and Christopher demands to know how these models change one thing without nuking the whole image.

🚀 SpaceX files for what could be the biggest IPO in history (ticker: SPCX). Also, hey, at least the toilet didn't explode this time.

💸 NVIDIA prints money ($91B quarter, $80B buyback) while we debate whether Anthropic could ever catch the shovel-seller.