Trucker Tom's Podcast

2159 Running AI Locally

tom@truckerphoto.com (Thomas R. Wiles) — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:47:58 +0000

I talk about buying a new gaming computer with 16 gigabytes of video RAM which enables me to genrate both AI audio and video locally on my machine with the help of open source software.

2158 Bionic Agentic Local AI Computer App

tom@truckerphoto.com (Thomas R. Wiles) — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 03:41:46 +0000

If you have a gaming computer with about 6 gigabytes of dedicated VRAM you can run an open source LLM using Bionic from LM Studio for free and actually get very useful work done. It quickly changes the way you use and how you even think of your computer as a productivity tool. Agentic computing is the next wave of computing.

2157 An Entire Nation Becomes a Cult

tom@truckerphoto.com (Thomas R. Wiles) — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 03:29:24 +0000

I explain the psychological/spiritual mechanism behind how a nation can turn into a cult and how you can protect yourself from it.

2156 Teaching Machines To Sing

tom@truckerphoto.com (Thomas R. Wiles) — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 04:06:02 +0000

Teaching Machines to Sing: Prompts, Psalms, and the Power of AI

2155 A Nation Divided

tom@truckerphoto.com (Thomas R. Wiles) — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 23:46:06 +0000

2155 A Nation Divided

Join me on Suno https://suno.com/@tomwiles?page=songs

2154 Three More

tom@truckerphoto.com (Thomas R. Wiles) — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 19:19:08 +0000

I perform three original songs: one on the nature of hope, another on the Pareto distribution (Matthew effect), and a final one exploring the dysfunctional US–Canada relationship.

2153 Suno AI Music Generator

tom@truckerphoto.com (Thomas R. Wiles) — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:47:22 +0000

I play a couple of new country songs that I generated with Suno AI music generator.

2152 Parkinson’s Disease/Trump Derangement Syndrome

tom@truckerphoto.com (Thomas R. Wiles) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 17:46:10 +0000

2152 Parkinson’s Disease/Trump Derangement Syndrome

2151 Morality Laundering

tom@truckerphoto.com (Thomas R. Wiles) — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 03:21:27 +0000

2151 Morality Laundering

2150 Proven You CAN Change

tom@truckerphoto.com (Thomas R. Wiles) — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 01:08:54 +0000

2150 Proven You CAN Change

I talk about a study with Psilocybin on mice brains proving that the brain can be rewired. I have long believed and in fact proven to myself that the human brain can be rewired without drugs if one has enough sincere motivation towards wanting to change as opposed to simply paying it lip service or wanting to take some sort of convenient effort-free shortcut.