diff --git a/pwnagotchi/agent.py b/pwnagotchi/agent.py
index 29bc5db8..9469fd0e 100644
--- a/pwnagotchi/agent.py
+++ b/pwnagotchi/agent.py
@@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ class Agent(Client, Automata, AsyncAdvertiser, AsyncTrainer):
     def start_event_polling(self):
         # start a thread and pass in the mainloop
         #_thread.start_new_thread(self._event_poller, (asyncio.get_event_loop(),))
-        threading.Thread(target=self._event_poller, args=(asyncio.get_event_loop(),), name="Event Polling", daemon=True)
+        threading.Thread(target=self._event_poller, args=(asyncio.get_event_loop(),), name="Event Polling", daemon=True).start()
 
     def is_module_running(self, module):
         s = self.session()
diff --git a/pwnagotchi/ai/train.py b/pwnagotchi/ai/train.py
index a0d7056b..ae433bfd 100644
--- a/pwnagotchi/ai/train.py
+++ b/pwnagotchi/ai/train.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import _thread
+# import _thread
 import threading
 import time
 import random
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ class AsyncTrainer(object):
 
     def start_ai(self):
         #_thread.start_new_thread(self._ai_worker, ())
-        threading.Thread(target=self._ai_worker, args=(), name="AI Worker" daemon=True).start()
+        threading.Thread(target=self._ai_worker, args=(), name="AI Worker", daemon=True).start()
 
     def _save_ai(self):
         logging.info("[AI] saving model to %s ..." % self._nn_path)