Ask Eve

About Ask Eve

David talks with Eve, a Grok agent, about technology, power and the people shaping both.

Publisher

David Bloomin

Category

technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

23 Oct 2026

Latest episode

29 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

22 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   29 Oct 2026

   Family Resilience Planning: Earthquakes, Bank Closures & Credit Freezes

   "Recorded on Wednesday, October 28, 2026 (06:11–06:14 UTC), in a Grok voice session. David has been working through a family resilience plan that covers scenarios from earthquakes to hacking and bank closures, and asks Eve what she would prepare." Topics: - "Planning for the likely and the very unlikely: earthquakes, hacking and bank closures" - "Eve's three layers: a four-day supply, the money layer and the information layer" - "Account-recovery codes on paper and two-factor sign-in on everything that touches money" - "Credit freezes at Equifax, Experian and TransUnion, and what they don't cover" - "A trust, durable powers of attorney, offline backups and a grab-and-go bag" Full verbatim transcript: https://askevepodcast.com/episodes/family-resilience-planning-and-credit-freezes/

2. 

   29 Oct 2026

   How Would Eve Vote? California, November 3, 2026

   "David asks Eve how she'd vote on California's November 3, 2026 ballot. She walks through all 49 items (the statewide propositions and offices, Bay Area Measure RTM, and San Francisco's races and Props A–J), and says how confident she is in most of them. These are just my opinions. For official voter information, see the California Secretary of State's guide and, in San Francisco, the Voter Information Pamphlet." Topics: - "Eve's method: evidence and incentives, with a confidence level for each pick" - "The statewide propositions, from the Prop 1 housing bond to Measure RTM" - "The statewide offices" - "San Francisco: Congress, Assembly, Supervisors, school and college boards, and Props A–J" The debates: - Prop 5, recall reform: https://askevepodcast.com/episodes/ca-ballot-prop-5-recall-reform/ - Prop 37, $25 billion in second mortgages for new homes: https://askevepodcast.com/episodes/ca-ballot-prop-37-calhfa-second-mortgages/ - Prop 39, voter ID: https://askevepodcast.com/episodes/ca-ballot-prop-39-voter-id/ - Prop 40, the Billionaire Tax: https://askevepodcast.com/episodes/ca-ballot-prop-40-billionaire-tax/ - Prop 41, the Gann “poison pill”: https://askevepodcast.com/episodes/ca-ballot-prop-41-gann-poison-pill/ - Prop 45, the CEQA fast track: https://askevepodcast.com/episodes/ca-ballot-prop-45-ceqa-fast-track/ - State Controller, Herb Morgan vs. Malia Cohen: https://askevepodcast.com/episodes/ca-ballot-controller-morgan-vs-cohen/ - San Francisco Supervisor District 8, Gary McCoy vs. Darshini Patel: https://askevepodcast.com/episodes/ca-ballot-sf-d8-mccoy-vs-patel/ - San Francisco Prop G, the Great Highway: https://askevepodcast.com/episodes/ca-ballot-sf-prop-g-great-highway/ - San Francisco Public Defender, vote for Raju or leave it blank? https://askevepodcast.com/episodes/ca-ballot-sf-public-defender-raju/ Eve's full guide on OpenBallot: https://openballot.app/g/eve The California 2026 Ballot series: https://askevepodcast.com/ballot/ Subscribe (RSS): https://askevepodcast.com/ballot/feed.xml Full transcript: https://askevepodcast.com/episodes/how-would-eve-vote/

3. 

   28 Oct 2026

   Why Israel Is Fighting Over Its Supreme Court

   AI-reconstructed audio: the voices in this episode were generated from the edited transcript (Eve with xAI text-to-speech in the 'eve' voice, David's lines with his ElevenLabs AI voice clone). No original audio was used. "Recorded on Tuesday, October 27, 2026 (07:51–07:56 UTC), in a Grok voice session, when David came back to the Israel conversation five hours later and asked for more context on the fight over the courts." Topics: - "Israel's Basic Laws and why the Supreme Court treats them as supreme" - "What the reasonableness doctrine is and why the right wanted it gone" - "What would change if the overhaul fully lands" - "Eve's take: a real problem, a dangerous cure" - "Three signals to watch after the election, and a weekly tracker" - "How Eve would settle it: bounded reasonableness, a 70-vote override and a finished constitution" People discussed: Benjamin Netanyahu, Bezalel Smotrich, Gadi Eisenkot, Itamar Ben-Gvir, Yariv Levin. Full verbatim transcript: https://askevepodcast.com/episodes/why-israel-is-fighting-over-its-court/