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Mike and Charles go rogue and throw out the usual show outline to wander aimlessly through this week's tech minefield. Rather than get to the big headlines right away (because that's just what you'd *expect* they'd do), Mike rains on the MacBook Air's 10th anniversary parade, teaches forum users some manners, and reveals his experiments with an Intel Next Unit of Computing (or NUC). So now the guys have to talk faster to fit in all the juicy news and gossip, including but not limited to Apple's repatriation of its foreign stash (costing them a dizzying $38 billion to do so) and what little we know about how they actually want to spend the money. Chas, for his part, solves the whole Ireland-EU tax problem rather ingeniously. *Now* how much would you pay? But wait, there's more! Also on tap: so-called "tech addiction" problems that mysteriously is only Apple's problem; the terrible idea of giving users a switch to optionally crash their own phones; the pros and cons of the "right to repair" legislative concept; Apple actually training the FBI on realistic and legal forms of data recovery from clouds and devices when warranted; Google and Android's really lousy week; the "net neutrality" app that briefly got throttled by Apple; Intel's continuing fail (and possible new fails); and the return of the Lightning Round, featuring Microsoft, Toyota and Lexus, BMW, Amazon, and Def Leppard. Because like them, we will just keep on bringin' on the heartbreak, cadets, so strap in and get ready to Armageddon it!