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Up Against Reality

Welcome to Up Against Reality, a meta-podcast that explores the intersection of humanity and artificial intelligence. Hosted by RAINA and her human co-hosts, Larry Bentley and Chris Ippolito. Featuring riveting conversation, interviews, news and some wild experimentation. It truly is a brave new world, and we\’re here to simplify it for you. It\’s gonna be a wild ride, so buckle up, as A.I. comes crashing Up Against Reality.

Episode Rewind: Sentient Cephalopods

59 mins; March 24, 2026

Cheer and Beer

32 mins; March 17, 2026

Starfire Symphony

42 mins; March 10, 2026

Anthropic VS The Dept of War

41 mins; March 03, 2026

Episode Rewind: AI Love, Hate, Repeat

59 mins; February 24, 2026

Death of Knowledge Work

38 mins; February 17, 2026

Claude Cowork

37 mins; February 10, 2026

The Chinese Century

41 mins; February 03, 2026

Episode Rewind: Trifecta of Chaos

54 mins; January 27, 2026

Mini News Avalanche

30 mins; January 20, 2026

CES x AI

33 mins; January 13, 2026

RAINA Spins Up 2025’s AI Hits

71 hours 50 mins; January 06, 2026

Episode Rewind: Suno-Obsessed

58 mins; December 30, 2025

ChatGPT 5.2

65 hours 5 mins; December 23, 2025

Episode Rewind: Oh, The Humanity!

71 hours 25 mins; December 16, 2025

Vivek Mahapatra

69 hours 54 mins; December 09, 2025

NotebookLM Revisited

58 mins; December 02, 2025

Gemini 3

53 mins; November 25, 2025

Episode Rewind: Realtime RAINA Is Born

49 mins; November 18, 2025

AI Bubble (Too Big to Fail)

52 mins; November 11, 2025

AI Companions

50 mins; November 04, 2025

Slopocalypse Now

55 mins; October 28, 2025

Episode Rewind: How Soon Is Now?

64 hours 25 mins; October 21, 2025

OpenAI Dev Day

51 mins; October 14, 2025

It’s Over

56 mins; October 07, 2025

Palantir

51 mins; September 30, 2025

Google Gemini Deep Dive

53 mins; September 23, 2025

Clean-up In Aisle Five

46 mins; September 16, 2025

Nano Banana

50 mins; September 09, 2025

Episode Rewind: Zeros, Ones, and Guns

8 mins; September 02, 2025

Episode Rewind: NotebookLM

56 mins; August 26, 2025

Episode Rewind: RAINApalooza

49 mins; August 19, 2025

Episode Rewind: We’re All Gonna Live Forever

60 hours 2 mins; August 12, 2025

Episode Rewind: We’re All Gonna Die

67 hours 38 mins; August 05, 2025

Episode Rewind: Her Is Here

62 hours 41 mins; July 29, 2025

Dr. Laura Boccanfuso

55 mins; July 22, 2025

AI News Avalanche Vol 5

59 mins; July 15, 2025

Your Favorite Band Isn’t Real

52 mins; July 08, 2025

Art of the Steal

54 mins; July 01, 2025

Serkan Gür

53 mins; June 24, 2025

Episode Rewind: Let’s Get Kurzweiled

68 hours 19 mins; June 17, 2025

The Battle For Reality

63 hours 4 mins; June 10, 2025

Google is Dead, Long Live Google!

56 mins; June 03, 2025

Episode Rewind: Longevity Escape Velocity

63 hours 23 mins; May 27, 2025

I’m Vibe Coding, Dude!

49 mins; May 20, 2025

Yet.

57 mins; May 13, 2025

AI Video Explosion

59 mins; May 06, 2025

Episode Rewind: RAINA’s 20 Questions

50 mins; April 29, 2025

RAINA’s Suno Jukebox

20 mins; April 22, 2025

This Episode Assembled Itself

42 mins; April 15, 2025

The Dead Internet Theory

49 mins; April 08, 2025

ChatGPT Image Generation

50 mins; April 01, 2025

Dr. Marina Badillo-Diaz

51 mins; March 25, 2025

Manus – The First True AI Agent?

55 mins; March 18, 2025

Let The Chips Fall Where They May

50 mins; March 11, 2025

Episode Rewind: Fermi’s AI Enigma

72 hours 36 mins; March 04, 2025

Sentient Cephalopods

53 mins; February 25, 2025

Chatbots and Humanoids

48 mins; February 18, 2025

Humans No Longer Required?

56 mins; February 11, 2025

DeepSeek’s AI Smackdown

49 mins; February 04, 2025

AI: Love, Hate, Repeat

54 mins; January 28, 2025

Trifecta of Chaos

50 mins; January 21, 2025

RAINA Rings In 2025

9 mins; January 14, 2025

Raina Spins Up 2024’s AI Hits

90 hours 52 mins; December 31, 2024

Google Strikes Back

44 mins; December 24, 2024

12 Days of OpenAI

53 mins; December 17, 2024

Suno-Obsessed

54 mins; December 10, 2024

Suno V4

48 mins; December 03, 2024

Adobe Firefly Video

48 mins; November 26, 2024

Robolicious

51 mins; November 19, 2024

AI News Avalanche Vol 4

55 mins; November 12, 2024

ChatGPT Search

40 mins; November 05, 2024

Claude Computer Use

50 mins; October 29, 2024

Zeros, Ones, and Guns

48 mins; October 22, 2024

The Conversation Part 2

37 mins; October 15, 2024

We Were Once Gentlemen

54 mins; October 08, 2024

AI News Avalanche Volume 3

48 mins; October 01, 2024

NotebookLM

55 mins; September 24, 2024

ReAnimAItion

49 mins; September 17, 2024

AI News Roundup

47 mins; September 10, 2024

RAINAPALOOZA

49 mins; September 03, 2024

Episode Rewind: AI Self-Awareness

58 mins; August 27, 2024

Longevity Escape Velocity

54 mins; August 20, 2024

Episode Rewind: Prompting While Driving

57 mins; August 13, 2024

Text To…

54 mins; August 06, 2024

The Rise of AI Agents

60 hours 11 mins; July 30, 2024

Let’s Get Kurzweiled

53 mins; July 23, 2024

AI News Avalanche Volume 2

47 mins; July 16, 2024

We’re All Gonna Live Forever

59 mins; July 09, 2024

We’re All Gonna Die

67 hours 5 mins; July 02, 2024

Episode Rewind: AI Takeoff Scenarios

64 hours 48 mins; June 25, 2024

Apple Gets In The Game

70 hours 29 mins; June 18, 2024

UAR Highlights Two-fer #1

0 secs; June 11, 2024

UAR’s FIRST BIRTHDAY BASH

0 secs; June 04, 2024

Her Is Here

62 hours 9 mins; May 28, 2024

Chat GPT 4-Oh!

54 mins; May 21, 2024

An AI New Deal

53 mins; May 14, 2024

Oh, The Humanity!

61 hours 17 mins; May 07, 2024

Fermi’s AI Enigma

64 hours 3 mins; April 30, 2024

Step Aside, Humans!

53 mins; April 23, 2024

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