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Acquisitions, resignations and bad decisions are back, baby! Featuring TechWolf, Humanly and Juicebox.

Talent acquisition teams are expected to perform daily miracles: hire fast, manifest unicorn candidates, and slash budgets to zero. Join The Chad & Cheese Podcast hosts Chad Sowash and Joel Cheesman alongside guests Kayleen Weaver (Americare) and Patrick Kelly (Healing Partners) to see if hiring AI is actually saving HR—or just giving them fancier tools to fuel the recruitment dumpster fire.

Live from Amsterdam, Chad, Cheese, Stephen and Lieven roast HR's finest: Metaview's $60M by rebranding a note-taker as "agentic AI," LinkedIn banning scrapers while half its users leave profiles blank, Palantir terrifying nurses with glitchy AI scheduling, and a "soft" job market driven by recruiters ignoring their own databases. Plus, bad dad jokes and zero cheese.

Nathan Labenz, from The Cognitive Revolution, reveals how his autonomous AI agent booked him on HR’s most dangerous podcast. The crew tackles AI hacking its own test graders, automated job application chaos, Nathan’s trip to high-tech China, and whether parents should relax now that AI is officially smarter than our kids.

LinkedIn cosplaying as TikTok, Meta finally peeling the cameras off the glasses Maureen still will not buy. The job market gets the usual treatment — sturdy headlines, miserable humans, bots applying as nurses for $150 a pop. Then Madonna shows up at 68 in fishnets, and the episode somehow gets weirder.