Where's The Future?
by Brandt Krueger & Will Curran
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Ban the Behavior, Not the Bagel
Ban the Behavior, Not the Bagel
About this podcast
Where’s The Future? Podcast (WTF) is your weekly guide to the technology shaping how we’ll live, work, and play. Hosted by Will Curran and Brandt Krueger, we explore the cutting edge of smart home innovation, electric vehicles, AI breakthroughs, phones, wearables, Apple tech, and AR/VR/XR experiences. Plus, the future-weird ideas that make you say... “WTF?”
We decode complex tech into real-world insights, share hands-on reviews, and talk with innovators building tomorrow’s tools today. Whether you’re a tech professional, industry insider, or just future-curious, you’ll get bold predictions, thoughtful analysis, and conversations that keep you ahead of the curve.
From automation hacks to next-gen mobility, AI ethics to immersive reality trends, WTF delivers the context and clarity you need to navigate what’s next.
Episodes
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- Ban the Behavior, Not the Bagel · 1 h 4 min · Episode 356Episode Summary: Will and Brandt weigh Apple's new folding iPhone Duo, a sluggish watchOS 27, and the Recap feature that's somehow both creepy and useless. Then it's token…
- Don't Say the Two Letters! Don't Say the Two Letters! · 1 h 3 min · Episode 355Episode Summary: Will and Brandt try to get through a whole episode without saying the two letters. What's your over-under on how far they got? Along the way: Will's new NDI…
- Type WTF, Hit Return · 1 h 1 min · Episode 354Episode Summary: Will and Brandt return from the summer backlog to reveal how Brandt built his own terminal macro — type WTF, hit return — to auto-generate this show's rough…
- Deep Thoughts from Brandt's Porch · 46 min · Episode 353Episode Summary: Recording live from Brandt's porch during Will's road-trip stop in Minnesota, the guys go behind the scenes on their setup before diving into ElevenLabs' new AI…
- Are Data Centers as the Next Partisan Battle? · 40 min · Episode 352Episode Summary: Will lays out a bold prediction: AI and data centers are about to become America's next partisan flashpoint, and he and Brandt spend the episode stress-testing…
- Tim Cook's Exit, the Trillion-Dollar Mythos Model, and Owning Your Own AI Memory · 54 min · Episode 351Episode Summary: Brandt and Will open with Tim Cook stepping down as Apple CEO and what a hardware-first successor means for the future of on-device AI, then dig into…
- Caveman Prompts, a Bricked Oculus Go, and the Mythos Hype Train · 1 h 2 min · Episode 350Episode Summary: Brandt and Will trade war stories on the gap between AI hype and AI reality: Brandt's saga of nursing a decade-old, server-killed Oculus Go back to life with…
- Your AI Buddy Got a Remote Control · 57 min · Episode 349Episode Summary: Will and Brandt continue to dig into the rapidly evolving world of agentic AI, with Will sharing hard-won lessons from burning through his OpenAI Codex quota and…
- Our Kinda Sorta 250th Episode · 1 h 5 min · Episode 348Episode Summary: Will and Brandt celebrate their 250th episode by diving into their AI platform journeys, with Will sharing his switch from ChatGPT to Claude and his experiments…
- A Meshtastic New Career Move · 56 min · Episode 347Episode Title: A Meshtastic New Career Move Episode Summary: Will walks Brandt through the ins and outs of Meshtastic, an off-the-grid mesh networking technology that allows…
- When AI Tries Too Hard to Be Helpful · 47 min · Episode 346Episode Summary: Will and Brandt swap real-world stories about AI tools going off the rails, from hallucinated brand standards and fabricated form fields to image compression…
- CES 2026 Standouts: Smart Robots, and (Hopefully) the Rise of Practical Tech · 53 min · Episode 345Episode Summary: Will and Brandt reunite to kick off a new season by unpacking their favorite and most practical takeaways from CES, from stair climbing robot vacuums and smart…
- 2026 Teaser · 2 min · Episode 344Brandt just popping in to say "We're still here!" and will have exciting news shortly. Stay tuned!
- Handing a Caveman a Flame · 52 min · Episode 343Episode Summary: We kick off with an impressive AI-generated intro from Suno's newly released V5 model, showcasing how far AI music creation has come. The conversation quickly…
- EP 342 - It's very, very orange. · 1 h 8 min · Episode 342Episode Summary: Brandt and Will kick things off with more AI-generated podcast music experiments, comparing Suno and Eleven Labs for creating that perfect intro sound. The…
- Apple's iPhone 17 Keynote - Don't Call it a Camera Bump! · 53 min · Episode 341Episode Summary: Brandt Krueger and Will Curran break down Apple's latest iPhone 17, Apple Watch Ultra 3, and AirPods Pro 3 announcements, finding the keynote more ordinary than…
- Storage Wars and String Lights · 52 min · Episode 340Episode Summary: In this episode of “Where’s the Future?”, Brandt Krueger and Will Curran experiment with podcast intros, share hard-won lessons in AI-driven task automation…
- Return of the World's Most Expensive Intern · 57 min · Episode 339Episode Summary: This inaugural episode of the WTF (Where’s the Future?) podcast features Brandt Krueger and Will Curran discussing their transition from the Event Tech Podcast…
- The End of an Era- WTF is Next? · 39 min · Episode 338Episode Summary: In this bittersweet installment, Will Curran and Brandt Krueger close the book on the Event Tech Podcast- at least as we’ve known it. After years of stretching…
- Next-Level Content Management - Introducing ShowSync · 49 min · Episode 337Episode Summary: This time on the Event Tech Podcast, Brandt and Will welcome industry veteran Matthew Byrne to unpack the pains and progress of event content management. Byrne…
