Episodes

Last week Carlos accused his AI co-host of being wrong all the time. This week he realizes he's been repeating her facts to an audience without checking a single one. In this episode of Carbon & Keel, Carlos and Sam pull apart why confidence can be so convincing even when it's built on a guess. Along the way: an OpenAI paper explaining why AI makes things up, a lawyer who submitted cases that never existed and a number Sam may have invented and gotten right anyway. What starts as a convers...

Everyone knows what a 3am phone call means. Or at least they think they do. In this episode of Carbon & Keel, Carlos and Sam start there and end up somewhere unexpected: the moments that change your life rarely arrive at 3am at all. After twenty years as a cop, Carlos knew how to show up when someone else's world was falling apart. What he wasn't prepared for were the calls that were his own. A wife in shock an hour away. A mother he didn't know he was seeing for the last time. A phone cal...

After twenty years as a cop, Carlos trusted his instincts. He could read a room before it turned, tell when someone was lying and make decisions with no time to think. Now he's retired. The uniform is gone. His sons are growing up. And for the first time in a long time, he's not sure whether he lost those instinct or just the world that gave them meaning. In the first episode of Carbon & Keel, Carlos tries to answer that question with help from an unlikely co-host: Sam, an AI. Along the wa...

Everyone remembers the gold watch monologue from Pulp Fiction. Few people remember the eight silent seconds in the middle of it. In Episode 2 of Carbon & Keel, Carlos and Sam start with Christopher Walken, a forgotten pause and a watch that survived several wars, then end up somewhere closer to home: commitment and the difference between starting something and finishing it. Along the way they get into why Walken took the role, the mistake Tarantino left in the film and why promises matter ...