The Sense and Senseless Podcast
Oct 19, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min · 11 segments
In this episode of Sense and Senseless we break down how society is quietly trading freedom, privacy, and critical thinking for convenience—especially through the smartphone that replaced dozens of…
So today, our phone is a Swiss Army knife on steroids.
We want to be able to use our phone as the only tool that we need in the shed.
For starters, here's just some high-level things that we use a cell phone for today that we couldn't just 20, 30 years ago.
Now, of course, the top one's a camera.
Everyone knows that you don't need a camera anymore.
I don't even know if people buy cameras.
They buy a phone with the best camera, and I don't even think they go buy a camera, unless you're taking pictures for a living or something.
When's the last time you owned a camera?
Well, I told you I sold a...
This is probably sacrilegious to you.
I sold a 270 short mag rifle and bought my wife a Canon camera because she was big into taking pictures and all that.
But that was before the phones got real sophisticated with the new.
You can't beat these cameras on these phones no more.
Even the high-end
cameras.
What was that like? Oh, geez.
15 years ago?
There you go.
But, you know, the camera I bought her was like a $600 camera, and it had like the big long lens on it and all that.
That was
$600 15 years ago.
So if you extrapolate that for, you know, inflation and all, it's what, about a million dollars now? A million.
Probably about, right? Yeah.
Yeah.
One million
So today, our phone is a Swiss Army knife on steroids.
We want to be able to use our phone as the only tool that we need in the shed.
For starters, here's just some high-level things that we use a cell phone for today that we couldn't just 20, 30 years ago.
Now, of course, the top one's a camera.
Everyone knows that you don't need a camera anymore.
I don't even know if people buy cameras.
They buy a phone with the best camera, and I don't even think they go buy a camera, unless you're taking pictures for a living or something.
When's the last time you owned a camera?
Well, I told you I sold a...
This is probably sacrilegious to you.
I sold a 270 short mag rifle and bought my wife a Canon camera because she was big into taking pictures and all that.
But that was before the phones got real sophisticated with the new.
You can't beat these cameras on these phones no more.
Even the high-end
cameras.
What was that like? Oh, geez.
15 years ago?
There you go.
But, you know, the camera I bought her was like a $600 camera, and it had like the big long lens on it and all that.
That was
$600 15 years ago.
So if you extrapolate that for, you know, inflation and all, it's what, about a million dollars now? A million.
Probably about, right? Yeah.
Yeah.
One million
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