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Jewish Cultural Flavors, UNCG Program Cuts, and AI Shaping Our World
Ever been curious about the different flavors of Jewish culture or wondered why universities seem to be trimming the fat off their humanities programs?
We have got you covered in the latest episode where we blend the zest of the holidays with a digging exploration into the diverse traditions of Jewish ethnic groups. We'll crack you up with tales of "white Hebrews and black Hebrews," and serve a serious side as we chew over the distressing trend of dwindling academic programs, starting with UNCG's axing of the Korean curriculum.
Hang tight, because we're also riding the AI wave, forecasting how these smart systems are reshaping everything from SpaceX missions to your next date night. Imagine a world where your shopping cart knows you better than your best friend – we're not just talking about future tech, we're living it. But fear not, we don't let the robots take over entirely; we reminisce over the Humpty Dance and debate whether a monkey could moonlight as a locksmith.
The monkey business that never fails to entertain. Don't just listen to us chat – challenge us, converse with us, and be part of the vibrant discussion that spans from axed academia to the seismic societal shifts brought on by technological advancements. It's a wild ride through the cultural kaleidoscope with GC and David, and we promise, you won't want to miss a beat.
Ever been curious about the different flavors of Jewish culture or wondered why universities seem to be trimming the fat off their humanities programs?
We have got you covered in the latest episode where we blend the zest of the holidays with a digging exploration into the diverse traditions of Jewish ethnic groups. We'll crack you up with tales of "white Hebrews and black Hebrews," and serve a serious side as we chew over the distressing trend of dwindling academic programs, starting with UNCG's axing of the Korean curriculum.
Hang tight, because we're also riding the AI wave, forecasting how these smart systems are reshaping everything from SpaceX missions to your next date night. Imagine a world where your shopping cart knows you better than your best friend – we're not just talking about future tech, we're living it. But fear not, we don't let the robots take over entirely; we reminisce over the Humpty Dance and debate whether a monkey could moonlight as a locksmith.
The monkey business that never fails to entertain. Don't just listen to us chat – challenge us, converse with us, and be part of the vibrant discussion that spans from axed academia to the seismic societal shifts brought on by technological advancements. It's a wild ride through the cultural kaleidoscope with GC and David, and we promise, you won't want to miss a beat.
Oh, yeah, you ready to go? Let's do it. Hey everybody, it's about GD Time. Oh, my man, my man, money B. What's happening, brother? I'm your mellow shock G. We're the freaks of the industry. No, you didn't. Yeah, I did, you did it. We're the dungeon philosopher. Yes, sir, that's right. What is happening, brother? I'm living the dream, I know you are. Yes, I am. Every day a new dream.
Speaker 2:Every day. I got everything. I got everything.
Speaker 1:I don't know what that means.
Speaker 2:That's a hip-hop song.
Speaker 1:Oh man, I only know a few. You know what?
Speaker 2:I don't know if it's Lil Wayne or yeah.
Speaker 1:I don't know who's that? Lil Wayne, I'm kidding, I'm kidding, are you though?
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, yeah, I didn't say that. A bunch of money, teeth A bunch of money teeth yes, Expensive teeth. Yes, hey everybody, today it is January 30th 2024. Oh yeah, time is flying already. Is it not flying. It's almost time for Christmas. Yeah, you know what are you doing for Valentine's Day? Do Jewish people celebrate Valentine's Day? It always comes down to the G.
Speaker 2:You know what? Let me tell you something. You know what kind of Jew I am.
Speaker 1:Oh boy, do it, do I get? What do I get? I can't say anything. Go ahead. What kind of Jew are you?
Speaker 2:Okay, I just want to educate really quick. I don't want to go into this, but there are certain kind of Jews and I did my 23 and me and they're Oskanazic. I did know that one.
Speaker 1:Russian.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're from Eastern Bloc countries Like Ukraine, russia and all that good stuff. Then you have Sephardic Jews Sephardic Jews.
Speaker 1:From the safari.
Speaker 2:No bad guess, but they're from it's not a kind of similar. They're actually from Spain, portugal, northern Africa, that tribe and Mizorahi Mizorahi from Afghanistan, pakistan, iran and places like that Is that you, I am Sephardic.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 2:So you know, this is a real cultural shift. As far as Because you go to Temple of Emmanuel, it's more Oskanazic, as far as the singing and the way you read the Torah.
Speaker 1:So you're saying like they got no rhythm at that temple?
Speaker 2:I never said that. I feel like that's what you were saying.
Speaker 1:You're basically saying that you think that's why I'm going yeah, you're like that why this temple is like a white temple, and the way they sing.
Speaker 2:The way they sing makes sense. Well, you know. They got no beats man Well if you listen to Sephardic Jewish men sing, chant the Shema, which is Shema is one of the most important songs in Jewish liturgy and it talks about, you know, just say, oh, here, Israel. That's basically what it says. It's different. It sounds more like Islamic singing than it does the European form of singing. That's it.
Speaker 3:This is more Middle Eastern.
Speaker 1:That makes sense to me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know the way they break it down when they're doing it is totally different from where my temple breaks it down. It's just two different cultures. I don't eat monster balls. What I eat more African foods, Like when we have Passover at my house. We don't do monster balls and gefelter fish and things like that, because we're not from Europe, we are from Northern Africa. So we do more like where the Ethiopian food is, like kawat and things like that and chicken and beef and the way it's prepared.
Speaker 3:That's all I'm saying. That makes sense to me.
Speaker 2:No better, no worse, but just different right.
Speaker 1:I didn't mean to go into that long. So there's a difference between white Hebrews and black Hebrews. Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 2:You know what? That's pretty clever on your part. That was really kind of clever People who listened to previous episodes.
Speaker 1:Would know would get that joke.
Speaker 2:Exactly and for listeners. When is that meeting?
Speaker 1:Oh, it's on Wednesdays, 7 o'clock.
Speaker 2:Cracker Barrel. Okay, there you go.
Speaker 1:Sometimes white castle oh.
Speaker 2:Call ahead Always. Yeah, you really want to call ahead, but no, listen, that's just a difference, no better, no worse. That makes sense.
Speaker 1:I mean there's a difference between what like I don't know. I grew up Catholic. There's no difference. They make sure it's no different.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, well, let me ask you a question right quick. Okay, all right. So you're Catholic, you're a reformed Catholic.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm a reformed, I am an act. What do you call? What do you call a person who left?
Speaker 2:alcohol, alcohol.
Speaker 1:I'm a recovering Catholic. You're a recovering Catholic.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay, so is that different from someone who handles snakes and read and sing and talking tongues?
Speaker 1:Are you trying to?
Speaker 2:No, no, no.
Speaker 1:Are you?
Speaker 2:trying to mix me with Santaria. No, not Santaria. Santaria is more like Haiti and Spain. Yeah, but it's mixed with Catholicism, no, no no, no, no, no, no, no not that I'm talking about when those people from Appalachia sing and dance and their barefoot like handling snakes, you talking about. Pentecostal. Okay, all right then.
Speaker 1:That's not even the same religion, not even close. Okay, all right, I'm saying you know, just like look. But that's like saying like hey, is there a difference between a Jewish person and an Islamic person? What's the difference? Like okay, totally different.
Speaker 2:You both are calling yourselves Christian, right? Uh yeah, you both are followers of Jesus Christ, are you not Well?
Speaker 1:So these people, I've never, really I've never I've told you this before. I'm gonna offend half the listeners right away.
Speaker 3:I'm not as always.
Speaker 1:I've never really met a true Christian Like by your definition of what you just said. My definition, yes, the Jewish man's definition, the follower of Jesus Christ. Because I've never met a Christian who didn't reference the Old Testament and use half of those rules, who didn't reference the theology of Paul or Saint Thomas Aquinas, right, or they mix in a bunch of other people that have nothing to do with Jesus. So, if you wanna ask me, are they both Christian? Yeah, loosely, loosely.
Speaker 2:And speaking in tongues. You speak in tongues because if people who don't understand Latin, that's considered foreign or foreign language. I mean, I happen to make the mistake of taking Latin in high school, don't ask me why that was a great class.
Speaker 1:I love my teacher.
Speaker 2:You like Latin? I do like Latin. Okay, it's a dead language, but you know, besides, people who are attorneys and Catholics, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1:Exactly.
Speaker 2:I'm just saying.
Speaker 1:I'm both useless yeah exactly. I'm kidding Catholics, whoever you are Not kidding lawyers, lawyers, I mean.
Speaker 2:But you see the point I'm making. It's just, it's different, just to bring this back in so we can move on. It's just a different culture. They do their thing. I'm just happy to be blessed, to go to a temple that I truly, my family truly enjoyed, that my children grew up in, but it's more. It's not geared towards my Not towards your people.
Speaker 1:Yeah, ancestry.
Speaker 2:And 23 and me, when I took the test, showed me everywhere they say my people came from, where Jews were kicked out of Really Every spot. Germany, yes, no. Yes.
Speaker 1:You're German.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Meeting is on Wednesday, 7 o'clock. Cracker Barrel. Come on down. You know what it said.
Speaker 2:No, okay, it said I was Northern African and I came from Nigeria, from Northern African Ethiopia, then Northern African, through Nigeria, we went up through Morocco, we went up through Spain, portugal, france, ireland, germany.
Speaker 1:And then to the United States.
Speaker 2:And to the United States Whoa, and we were kicked out of every. I even have lineage in Turkish stand.
Speaker 3:I do too.
Speaker 2:I think, a little.
Speaker 1:Actually I have African in me, I think. I just looked this up, I think it was somewhere. I think it was like 0.8.
Speaker 2:I know 0.8? 0.8. That's a lot.
Speaker 1:So you're a brother, I'm a little disappointed, a little disappointed. I've always had rhythm, so I always thought that there had to be more than 0.8. But what it does tell me is it didn't say 0.
Speaker 2:Well, you know what D? Let's just get this out of an over. What Can you really dance? Yeah, I'm not talking about that bullshit on stage If I take you to a nightclub.
Speaker 1:Saturday oh, ask anybody, I can shake that ass.
Speaker 2:I'm just talking about can you really get down?
Speaker 1:I ain't talking about jazz hands, dude, I got to move where it's like that you do. Spank that ass.
Speaker 2:Anybody can do. Spank that ass move. Anybody can do that.
Speaker 1:I'm saying Well, you always ask me if I break, dance.
Speaker 2:No, can you get down? Can you really dance? You got brother and you got 0.8% of African-American. If you can't, you need to channel that.
Speaker 1:I can sing Humpty Dance.
Speaker 2:You know what Every white kid back in the 1990s could do that. No man, not like him, though, Just like a lot of white kids could play Dave Matthews on a guitar, not like.
Speaker 1:Not like, Not like Shox Jida. I kind of sounded like him, I did the voice man and I got the rhythm. Oh you do Okay, all right, so look, 0.8. 0.8. 0.8. Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 3:Right, but 8%.
Speaker 1:A little over 8% Sicilian, which means really about 9%.
Speaker 2:Well, you know, they consider Italians brothers anyway, especially in New York, exactly so, about 9%.
Speaker 1:So what does that tell you? Tells me that I'm about 9% black. No, no, no no, no, no.
Speaker 2:Let's look at the big picture. What does that tell you as far as Africa being the cradle of civilization? Would you not agree with that? Absolutely the Garden of Eden is proud.
Speaker 1:I mean, look Egypt. I don't know why we're getting onto this man.
Speaker 3:This is taking a lot of time.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, yeah, this is it but, but, but, let's just talk about it.
Speaker 3:It's kind of fun. No, no, no.
Speaker 1:I'll go back and I'll put in a little disclaimer that this is going to take a while to get to the point I'll put in a narration.
Speaker 3:No, no, no no.
Speaker 1:But no To your point Egypt, come on. Where's that? Where's Egypt? It's in Africa. Yeah, exactly so. Pyramids, steel Pyramids, still there. Do you know anything built in America that would still be here 5,000 years later? No, exactly.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:Even the Colosseum, even Rome.
Speaker 3:That's not going to that's already deteriorating, it will.
Speaker 1:If it wasn't for modern day preservation, it already be gone.
Speaker 2:You're right, but you're getting rid of that pyramid. No, it's not going in anyway, it's not going.
Speaker 1:That tells me that? What does that tell you? That black people are amazing at making triangles, three sided triangles, what they are? Have you seen them? They're still there. Just talked about it.
Speaker 2:So, anyway, today meeting again Wednesday at 7 o'clock, and then the white folks made a tower that leaned, so who was that damn carpenter Exactly?
Speaker 1:That was it, I know right. Yeah. So today, 11 minutes, 13 minutes later, our first topic we're going to talk just a little bit about North Kekalaki and where's my notes, man.
Speaker 1:I got to put them on my reading glasses, so I don't know if everybody knows this. To give you a little background, it looks like in 2023, the Republican legislature passed a bill that basically said they're going to put priority on STEM subjects science, technology, engineering, mathematics and only those subjects would the state fund distinguished professors. So those are the tenured professorships. That's the difference between a regular professor and a distinguished is distinguished as kind of like above the field. They're considered above the campus. They're so high at their level. They're above the campus, right, so they're very important Now. So from there, I'm going to let you take it on to today's story about UNCG that you brought up to me.
Speaker 2:Yes, as a former student of UNCG, this is a little bit disturbing because they're starting to cut programs and particularly we were talking about cutting the Korean curriculum there at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro Spartan pride, by the way.
Speaker 1:Spartans, you know I was the mascot.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you were not.
Speaker 1:I was too. We'll talk about it. Yeah, we'll talk about it later.
Speaker 2:So yeah, they're starting to cut programs at the University of North Carolina, at Greensboro, and the reason why people are upset about this is because you know they're saying what's next. No, they cut the Korean programs. And they were saying why are you cutting this? No-transcript. You know this is something that is vastly needed. Now there are some that says, if you cut this, why are we cutting? This is culturally insensitive, first of all, and second of all, it's not taking up a lot of the budget. So why are we doing this? So is there a ulterior motive for cutting these programs? And you know, one of the professors from UNCG, the taught Korean, got up and made this impassioned speech to not cut it. But as of yet, I don't know what the university has decided. So it's making a lot of people nervous about what is next as far as cutting programs. What do you think as a former alumni of Spartan Pride? Spartan Pride.
Speaker 1:We were the best at nursing. Yeah, they do, that was an amazing nursing program.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's science, they're protected. What do I think? I think that learning Korean instead of Spanish in college would have made it easier to watch Squid Games on Netflix without the subtitles or the overdub. Outside of that, unless I'm in the military and I go to Korea and I find a Korean girl and she doesn't know English yet and I want to hit on her. Those are like the only two situations. I know that I want to take Korean. But what's next German Without German? We don't have my heritage. And then what's next African? Wait, they don't teach that. There's too many languages. Wait, what's next Italian? I'm going to get rid of Italian, because here's your point. I'm making a stupid, I'm being stupid. Right now I realize that.
Speaker 1:Because you know somebody's sitting there thinking oh, this guy's for real, that is the biggest bigot I ever, I know. But here's the thing, the reason. I say this the biggest bigot I've ever heard in my life. But now you know why I say these things Because it actually reflects what some people think. Obviously, I just went too far, but, as always, but I always go too far. I want to see what your line is and I want to step on it.
Speaker 2:Oh, exactly, we know that. And I got a big toe.
Speaker 1:You got a big toe. My big toe is the biggest one. All right, for real. You habitual blind stepper, that's what you're saying. I am, and let me tell you about my foot. So the big toe is the longest and it goes down. Each one is a little bit shorter. I once read that that's a very Egyptian foot. That's what Egyptian feet were like.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:So that means that point eight is popping through. Yeah, but to your point about Korean. Is it important? Yeah, it's important Because they're trying to treat to me like college is where you go and if you're in there, they've decided what subjects are important Science, technology, engineering, mathematics, liberal arts screw it. Actors done, journalists done English majors out.
Speaker 2:They have not said that yet.
Speaker 1:They haven't said yet, but you just said yet.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But there is a good friend of ours who I will not name, but he's on Facebook. He has posted this, so I'm sure it's out there for public consumption. But he is a Wake Forest mathematics professor, right, he is very concerned about this and he's very worried that it will affect some of his colleagues at UNCG, because of this.
Speaker 1:Sure, they're making cuts. So here's my question to you. Okay, Because I was a little ridiculous. No, Look, I'm not going to edit it out. You told me you when we started this. You told me you wanted this David.
Speaker 2:Oh, I knew I was going to get it, whether I wanted it or not.
Speaker 1:I know you wanted the one who would say something absolutely ridiculous. So don't act offended, because you know who I am. I'm not offended, you know I. How can? You offend me If you act offended then they're going to think they can act offended on the other side.
Speaker 2:I can't speak for everyone who is listening to us. These two chucklehead jackasses, foul mouth jackasses.
Speaker 1:What I'm saying is, when you, when you laugh, you let them know that I'm joking, but when you get all quiet, they're like oh that is the biggest bigot, yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he's a big, he's a big, big, big, he's a big.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I mean, sometimes I am. It depends on what we're talking about. I mean, I'm a bigot against stupidity. There you go brother, I am.
Speaker 2:That was you know what. That's well said.
Speaker 1:I'm a bigot. I'm a bigot against actual racism Right.
Speaker 2:You know, idiots say idiot things all of the time. I want you to remember that. I said that to you. All right, remember that. Want me to say it again.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Idiots say idiot things all of the time.
Speaker 1:What about this thing? All right, even a broken clock is right twice a day. Bill Clinton said that you know what, bro?
Speaker 2:You know how that was deep, that was real deep.
Speaker 1:All right, so let me. What was our point? What were we talking about? We were talking about Korean being cut, and oh, here's what I was going to ask you.
Speaker 3:All right.
Speaker 1:So when I went to school I already thought college was expensive. Sure, I did not finish my degree. I won't get into that story. It did come down to money Run out Thought I'd get a job, go back. Everybody said you'll never come back if you leave, right.
Speaker 1:I'm like no, I will. No life happens. Sure College is now way more expensive at the state level than ever before. Money is coming in like never before. Why are they cutting education like never before? We used to be one of the top in the country, north Carolina, at the university level. We were considered like one of the top university systems. Chapel Hill still is considered that.
Speaker 2:Sure.
Speaker 1:But if you start making these cuts, how long do you even hold on to that?
Speaker 2:Even at Chapel Hill. You mean the curriculum cuts.
Speaker 1:Yeah, curriculum cuts, but when you don't offer. Somebody made a very good point. You sent me an article by that guy. His name is Diamond. Is it Kendrick? I don't know, I'd have to put on my reading glasses here. Diamond, kendrick Holmes.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And he's an executive editor in Green's.
Speaker 2:Row.
Speaker 1:Not at Winstice Arm Journal. I thought he was in Greensboro News and Record.
Speaker 2:No, it's at Winstice Arm Journal.
Speaker 1:Oh well, okay, Well, wherever he's from, he wrote an editorial and it was in the Winstice Arm Journal. It was an editorial from him, but he basically made the point that not everybody knows what they want to do when they get to school, absolutely. So they take a lot of courses and, wow, in the meantime they become educated people. They don't have to take just a science course.
Speaker 3:So what if you cut sociology?
Speaker 1:That's a point Like what the point is? What is the point of sociology? What is the point of humanities? What is the point of philosophy? Those are beautiful arts man.
Speaker 2:I'll tell you, and I still know my sociology professor from my time at Brevard College. Actually, this dude, this cat, was as a former CIA agent. Get out. He told you stories, didn't he? Dr Coriel, that was his name and I still remember. I don't know if he's still with us or not, but I took his class at Brevard and that was a eye-opening class that I took and I love that dude. I mean we used to after class. This shows you the power of people who really touch you, educating you. And he would talk to us. I mean he wouldn't go into details about his, what he did with the CIA, but he, yeah, he was that guy and he taught us things. He taught us how, you know, the United States government had different objectives when they went into foreign countries. They wanted to depose despots so they could put their own regimes in, so they can do the will of the United States government and he had us in class.
Speaker 1:We were like what? So let's wrap that back in. How do you become a CIA operative who can go into Korea and infiltrate if you didn't take Korean in class and you'd be like, well, they're probably only going to hire a Korean guy, so he probably already knows Korean. How many second-generation Koreans know Korean? I don't know Probably a lot, Actually. How many third-generation?
Speaker 2:Koreans know Korean. Who would you say? Probably a lot, yeah, probably a lot. Because their parents probably only talk Korean to them, right right right.
Speaker 1:My point is I don't have a point, Keep going.
Speaker 2:So yeah, but like when you're talking about. You know the state legislature cutting these things. You know it's. Let me tell you something it is all political all the time.
Speaker 1:But why is education political? Why is it like we want to make these people dumber?
Speaker 2:They don't think they're doing that. And then, on top of that, you got to keep in mind the money, the influx of money that's coming in, not just, you know, a lot of tax dollars. No, that's that lottery money that's coming in. Yeah, it's coming in, but where's it going?
Speaker 1:Why is our education getting worse with that lottery?
Speaker 2:Well, they did.
Speaker 1:Evidently, they're supposedly dispersing that money through grants and I mean, I don't know, I'm not, I'm not.
Speaker 2:I don't work in politics anymore, so I want to go to that charter school they want them for that private school that applies for the grant.
Speaker 1:Well, let me tell you something too. They never told anybody, but you find it in the fight and print that lottery. It only works after they balance the budget. So until they balance the budget, no money goes towards education. That's in the fine print.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I don't know. Well, well, you're telling me something I don't know.
Speaker 1:I mean we might have a balanced budget. Now we probably have a surplus, the taxes gone up.
Speaker 2:I was about to say I didn't know that was one. You know they do a lot of sunsetting in North Carolina.
Speaker 1:Okay, so it might have run out, you're correct. But I don't know at the time that it was created. You had to have a balanced budget in the black before it would come to education. That was true story.
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 1:I'm telling you what I'm telling you what I know.
Speaker 2:Well, thank you for that. I had no idea. You're welcome.
Speaker 1:I wasn't. I read the article. Oh, it was on the YouTubes.
Speaker 2:I saw it on the YouTubes.
Speaker 1:I saw it on the YouTubes.
Speaker 2:Okay, it has to be true. Well, if you saw it on the YouTubes, shit shit, we're on the YouTubes.
Speaker 1:You got it, and I always tell the truth. I know it, we own a YouTube. Oh yeah, that's a plug. Go to.
Speaker 3:YouTube. Watch it on YouTube.
Speaker 1:I'm telling you what. I'm telling you what I know.
Speaker 3:Okay, we just held a smile, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I don't know, I just okay. So here's last point I'm gonna make on this. All right I think we're both in agreement.
Speaker 2:This is bad news we are, it is, it is.
Speaker 1:Science, technology, engineering and mathematics Sounds like a safe thing. We need more of those people, right?
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 1:Well, what happens when Elon Musk perfects AI? And what job is saved? Did you know? Right now, banking is losing jobs. They are losing, they are losing. They are losing Because of AI. Good, fuck them. Yeah, but what job?
Speaker 3:Tell me.
Speaker 1:Let's say this Think 20 years in the future, 20 years, okay, okay, you know how far AI's come just in the last four. Okay, don't even go back 10.
Speaker 2:Absolutely In four. No, why don't we try two?
Speaker 1:Okay, let's say two. Sure, All right. Now imagine I'm just a guy who wants to go to Mars and this is 20 years in the future. I type in. No, I don't even type anymore. All I do is think Siri build me a rocket that would get me to Mars with the perfect fuel.
Speaker 3:Why can't I do the algorithm? She could do it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she could do it. So what do you need a scientist for? What do? You need a mathematician for Sure? Do you know that when they built the Golden Gate Bridge, all those equations, every little?
Speaker 3:part of that bridge had to be done by hand.
Speaker 1:Yes, they had to write out the actual mathematical equations All the board.
Speaker 2:Yeah Well, just like the rocket, they had to do the same thing for a rocket.
Speaker 1:Guess what you do now. You type it into a software. You didn't even learn the equations.
Speaker 2:But here's the thing.
Speaker 2:Here's where I'm going to disagree with you on this, because you have to teach somebody to do that. Now you can listen to AI or you want to, but if some people are visual learners, I'm just saying some people need another human need, human touch to really grasp something. Because, think about this, if I am a surgeon and I'm going through med school, I can't get on this, this computer or laptop or iPad and learn how to do open heart surgery. I'm going to have to have someone in front of me to get on a cadaver and say, hey, listen, this is the artery that you need to clip or this is what you don't need to touch. You need human interaction to really make it just. For example, if you are going to law school, you can't go to law school on an iPad or a laptop or a desktop computer. You have to go to law school because you have to have someone a professor or instructor of law to stand in front of you and say, hey, what you just said, that case you just cited, is bullshit.
Speaker 1:It doesn't apply no, so you're saying that you need you need, you can't do.
Speaker 2:Ai is not going to. Why can't?
Speaker 3:it's not.
Speaker 2:The remedy for everything is just not.
Speaker 1:I disagree 100%.
Speaker 2:I disagree.
Speaker 1:Okay, I'm not saying that it's good. Look, no, no, no, no, I get that when we were growing up you went to the grocery store. You actually went through a checkout line and you saw a person. Did you ever think that one day there would be self checkout? No, you didn't know. No one saw that coming and it happened overnight. All of a sudden, one store was doing it and then everybody does it Now. How many checkout lines are there?
Speaker 2:Okay, how many times you have to wait on checkout when it screws up and they have to come. The girl have to come. Look, look girl. Usually you know teens and 20 have to swipe the car and then put that punch in the number and you standing there, especially if you get wine. If you get wine, you really going to have to stay there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but you're thinking in today's terms. But now wait, 10 years from now, where when you walk into the store, you just swipe a chip and the chip knows everywhere you're walking. It knows everything that you're touching. There are cameras everywhere that are scanning your body. It scans everything that you touch. It has thermal imaging.
Speaker 2:So now with the Amazon, if you go. Have you been in Whole Foods lately? Yes, Do you hold your hand? I know some of my friends are holding their hands over that bullshit. I'm not going to do that because I think that is just a little bit too creepy for me. You hold my hand over there. You know this AI. I get it, I know and I think it's a good thing. Is it going to give me a hand job? No, Okay well.
Speaker 1:I'm glad that you brought that up. I'm glad that you brought that up because I'm going to change your mind, okay, so let's go to hand jobs, ai, hand jobs, okay. Okay, in Japan they have intimacy issues, you know, like culturally.
Speaker 2:Are you saying Japanese people have intimacy when I say Japan yes, I'm talking about Japanese people.
Speaker 3:Okay, go ahead, Look there is culturally.
Speaker 1:There are intimacy issues, especially now social media, everything like that. I've never been to Japan, so look, I could be wrong, but this is watching several specials about sex in Japan, and one of the things that they've been pushing are these little AI girlfriends, like holograms, right? One thing that they're also developing are love dolls. Now, do you have to blow it up? No, it's like silicone, made of something that feels like flesh. They paint it, they put a wig on it. Like you touch it. It has an internal skeleton so that it can be moved in different ways. Well, now they're putting AI computers in the head, right, so now you can have a conversation with it.
Speaker 2:Now it's not to the point, yet it talks. Yes, you just can't do your business and she don't talk.
Speaker 1:She talks no, this is for people who want companionship from somebody, just like somebody who won't not love you. Yeah.
Speaker 2:I was with you about the moving in and the skeletal thing. This is what's happening. She's talking now.
Speaker 1:But, this is the thing. This is what's happening right now. So I do a job where I use my hands all day. I'm like what you just said you need human interaction. You need someone who, when I talk to a person and I find out their problem, I work and help that person. And how could a computer do?
Speaker 3:what I do.
Speaker 1:Here's the problem they're already trying to develop one and they're coming close to doing it. So I have a client that comes in. He went to Michigan State. He took a tour of the proton accelerator. You know what this is, or electronic accelerator.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, yeah, I do, they got the second largest in the world.
Speaker 1:The first largest is what? Sweden, norway, something like that, anyway, finland maybe, I don't know One of those countries. And so he starts talking and they have robotics and he met somebody who is working on having human. They will feel like human hands. You will go in. This computer is programmed. You could tell it your problems. It will be able to give you a massage. It's a machine but it has hands and it will be able to rub you with human touch. It will be able to sense knots on your body, hold them and give you a massage. It is not perfected yet. That is what I've been told. But the point that they're wanting to make, they're wanting to make these huge buildings. Would you stop laughing? What? Hold? Because this is the point that I'm making. There's no job that's safe. Mine requires physical action and mine's not safe.
Speaker 2:Well, that's what I'm telling you.
Speaker 1:But no, what you were saying is you need a law professor. Why, once you type in all case law into the internet, once you type it, every opinion ever made by Supreme Court justice, by a district court judge, by any law person ever, are you telling me that AI wouldn't be able to give you a faster, more complete answer as a professor than a human one who might be having dementia, who's got a little bias, who forgot himself what that case law is and he mixes it up with another story. That's not exactly what you're going. Nothing is safe.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean you could say that about anything you know aspirin to some people, aspirin is not safe. You're an actor Acting is not safe anymore.
Speaker 1:I wouldn't go that far. That's what part of that strike was about.
Speaker 2:That's part.
Speaker 1:AI is coming.
Speaker 2:What do you need actors for? I'm not an AI denier.
Speaker 1:Well, you were saying that there are always going to be certain jobs that have to have a human. I disagree.
Speaker 2:Okay. Well, just like my old profession was firefighting, you can get AI for that. You could get a truck and you could just stand out there, but AI is not going to go in and hit every room or extinguish the point of origin for the fire.
Speaker 1:You are right now assuming that there is not a robot that can move like a human, which they're working on. Once you have a robot that can move like, a human.
Speaker 2:Well, they have robots. Yeah, no, they have that. They have drones.
Speaker 1:Add thermal imaging that can see through walls to this robot they have it. Well, that's a more accurate firefighter he's going to know. Skip this room, go to that room.
Speaker 2:Okay, so what they have? The only place I've seen it is in New York City, where they have, you know, because of the large scale buildings that they have in New York. So they have these drones that they deploy, doing like really nasty ass, fires, right, and that drone will go over the fire until the firefight, the fire crew, exactly where the fire is. It's like imaging. I don't know what kind of, I don't know if it's 2D, 3d, 3d, I don't know any of that, but they're pinpoint where the actual fire is. Now, to me, do I think that technology is great? Yes, because I think that spares the lives of. It gets the firefighters to get to persons that may be trapped inside quicker, and it and it preserve their safety as far as firefight safety. But what it won't do, ai will not do, is check in a bed, because when kids, when kids get no listen, when kids get scared, or in their house on fire, the first thing they'll do is running under a bed, or they're running to a closet and put clothes on top of them.
Speaker 1:Okay, so I see your point, but why wouldn't AI be able to okay? Your phone right now has technology for facial recognition, to where you can make a face and it knows whether you're sad you're happy, you're excited.
Speaker 2:Airports have facial recognition. You remember that and that was a lawsuit.
Speaker 1:But you know what eyes can't do? Eyes can't look through a door, but guess what can?
Speaker 2:The little goggles that the firefighters wear these days. Yeah, that can.
Speaker 1:But what if you can send in a robot and say firefighters lives and they're more efficient and they don't need oxygen tanks and they don't need salaries.
Speaker 2:That would be great.
Speaker 1:So, you think that unemployed firefighters are great.
Speaker 2:I don't think that's great, but you're going to need human. That's not going to go over what we're doing. So you think we're coming to the point to where we won't need any type of human interaction whatsoever. 25 years Do you know what?
Speaker 1:Elon Musk. I don't even like Elon Musk. We've talked about it before. He's a cuckuck here. He's at the meetings at Cracker Barrel at seven o'clock. We sit next to each other, he is.
Speaker 2:He's sick. Does he get the? What is he ordered?
Speaker 1:He orders the chicken finger.
Speaker 2:Oh, does he order a chicken fried steak? Here's something. Can I digress a little bit?
Speaker 1:Have we not already?
Speaker 2:Okay, listen, why do they call a chicken fried steak with gravy? No, what is it called Salisbury steak or fried sauce bear steak with gravy on a chicken fried steak, when it's not chicken, what it's chicken?
Speaker 1:fried steak without chicken.
Speaker 2:It's not chicken. It's like a cube steak with gravy on it and then they call it. Am I messing this up?
Speaker 1:Yeah, because that's just called a chicken fried steak. Country fried, country fried steak.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, no. What is a chicken fried steak?
Speaker 1:I don't know that chicken.
Speaker 2:Is that chicken batter?
Speaker 1:and with gravy on it? I don't know, because that's not what we ordered the cracker barrel, so I don't know all the answers.
Speaker 2:I was just asking. I know y'all do the mashed potatoes and you know, you know don't put any spices on it, I just grab them in the biscuits. You know what? You have been determined all night to put that in there. I have man, Congratulations.
Speaker 1:All right, stop what you're doing because I'm about to ruin the image of the style that you used to. I look funny, but you want to make money. See, see, old world. I hope you're ready for me and I gather round. I'm a new, fully. That was good, right.
Speaker 2:That was you know what. That was really good. Thank you, I've been doing that. You sound like Humpty when you did it.
Speaker 1:I've been doing this God rest his soul. I was like 10 years old doing that.
Speaker 2:You were 10.
Speaker 1:I don't know when that come out. Maybe like 14.
Speaker 2:I think my daughter was two years old, my baby Tari and I think my little girl Andy was three maybe.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I told you 9%, 9%, oh, wow.
Speaker 2:You didn't say no.
Speaker 1:You said eight, I said well, I said eight, but then well, I said 0.8.
Speaker 3:But plus my.
Speaker 1:Sicilian equals about nine.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, you put the African American with the Goomba.
Speaker 1:Yeah Well, you were basically saying the Goombas were African Americans, so I just put them together. Pretty much, so where were we?
Speaker 2:What were?
Speaker 1:we Firefighters? Yes, I think well. So what Elon Musk once said? I don't really love him, I admit.
Speaker 2:I know, but he is a genius.
Speaker 1:He is a genius in some fields. Okay Well, let's talk batteries and rockets, but in one I do have to say he said the biggest threat to humankind is.
Speaker 2:AI.
Speaker 1:Not AI, because he's into AI. What he said the biggest threat was is population decline because people aren't having sex anymore and I think I do think, sorry, I keep putting down the wrong mic. I do think that he was kind of coming at it from like a racial point of view, because the whites are the ones having the least babies, that white people are not having sex like they used to.
Speaker 2:That is true.
Speaker 1:But? But imagine in a world of AI and social networking, like we're already in, and there are studies showing the teens I don't want to talk about this too long, but teens are not having sex like recent generations. Good, but why aren't they? Because they're not interacting in person anymore.
Speaker 2:That's right, Because they're sitting at home playing and doing on yes, on laptops and iPads, exactly, and they can.
Speaker 1:they can diddle themselves with porn and they can get little machines now to masturbate. I've had them for years. Now they got the male ones. I'm telling you yeah, and once they come up with a love doll that doesn't talk back to you, that doesn't require you to buy her dinner, and it moves and all it says is oh you're the greatest GC.
Speaker 1:I love you so much. Gc, you are the most beautiful black Jewish man I have ever seen and you'd be like I love you, selena. Seriously, think about it. You're going to live in a world where people interact. What happened after the pandemic? Everybody decided to stay home. You know they could have gone back to the office and seen their coworkers. They were like fuck, no, I'm going to stay home.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, okay, so we're already getting there. Now AI is taking over, so here let's get back to the point. Korean's gone. My worry is liberal arts eventually acting. Philosophy, all the things we talked about, anthropology, all of it. I guess you can consider anthropology. That's science. Yes, that's very much science. It is science, but they're going to consider it one day not a needed science, to where you don't have to have how.
Speaker 3:When I went to UNCG.
Speaker 1:Go Spartans.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I went to UNCG. One of our or if not two, but I know one Dr Jelly course was tenured. We're now living in a world in North Carolina, where he was an arts professor. You won't have tenured professors anymore, you'd just be a full professor. You can fire his ass anytime you want.
Speaker 3:I'm not even sure.
Speaker 1:I agree with tenured professor, because that means no matter what you do.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I will save that for another time.
Speaker 1:That's another time, but the point is, I feel, about tenured professors. They're starting to cut. I feel like they're going too far. They're starting to overreach. They're telling people what we're going to give you money for. That should be a university. That should be the university. Are they going to start cutting programs, like if you wanted to take Acting 101? I'm sorry, that's not going to make us any money in the future and you're not going to be a valued citizen, so we're just cutting the acting program.
Speaker 3:Maybe not the whole thing.
Speaker 1:at first, we're just going to cut the advanced acting Totally of Acting 101 and then one day the whole acting program is gone, because guess what Movies are going to be made on the computer anyway.
Speaker 3:Eh, eh.
Speaker 1:Bye-bye, I don't give a shit.
Speaker 2:What about live theater? You going to have a robot, ai, do that. Who the hell goes to live theater anymore? Anyway, here's the thing we need to do. We need to. Well, we have our guests. You and I know who we're talking about. We need to have our guests on here to talk about theater in North. When's this going to be in North Carolina, oh boy. He'll be a well-known knowledge, my man.
Speaker 1:Well-known knowledge, my man Won't tease it yet because we haven't set up the perfect time, I know it, but he's coming, he's coming, he's coming, he's coming. Bye-bye. Or he said I'm cool with either.
Speaker 2:I'm woke you are woke, my brother.
Speaker 1:I know you are really woke, I know, you know. I know, I know that we joke, but you know that I'm one of the coolest mofos.
Speaker 2:You are everybody D. If people don't get that by now, the 46 listeners that we have don't get that by now. They'll never get it, and you know it's increasing. We actually have followers on YouTube. Is that what it is With TikTok? Yeah, instagram, what's up with that?
Speaker 1:I know I mean it's like three, but I mean it was amazing. Our beige babies went crazy.
Speaker 2:It did. I didn't know that.
Speaker 1:Well, it had like 90 views in the first week.
Speaker 3:Now.
Speaker 1:I think it's still it's like 100 right now. So it had like 90 in like the first two days.
Speaker 2:And then we had 100 on the one we did this afternoon.
Speaker 1:That's beige babies. No, yeah, this was the offense. I can't the pop, the pop, I can't get the TikToks.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, the pop has over well over 100.
Speaker 1:You know, they spy on you on TikTok.
Speaker 2:They do the Chinese.
Speaker 1:Look, I love how everybody's like I'm never getting that because the government spies on you. It's like you carry your phone.
Speaker 2:That's right. They already know the NSA know what you're doing. They listening to us right now.
Speaker 1:I mean you are not lying, because I have been in a private room and talking about something that I have never talked about, where my phone is with me Right Walk out of that room, get on my computer and all of a sudden there's an advertise up that that you would that yes, and. I'm like, okay, all right, I've shot Siri off of most of my apps.
Speaker 2:Did you, I need that bitch, I need that.
Speaker 1:I need that bitch for like little things like hey, can you text GC yeah? I'll be like hey, Siri, text GC, I'm on my way, oh, and then she gets it wrong. She's like, do you mean? And I'm like no, that's not who I mean. You know why she does that? Because I don't speak clearly.
Speaker 2:No, because she's American. You need to get that British girl I do got the British girl.
Speaker 1:You got a British girl. Oh, do you think I'm going to have?
Speaker 3:an American girl.
Speaker 1:What I want, that, I want that. Yes, hello, david, yeah, hello.
Speaker 2:Yes, what can.
Speaker 1:I do for you Love, I want your biscuits. Just kidding, carmen, carmen, I don't love Siri, I love you.
Speaker 2:Carmen's your boo.
Speaker 1:My boo my baby, my boo. My love a boo, all right, all right that was fun, that was fun. So I think we have decided for North Carolina and the nation that we are not going to cut education in the form we're going to fund it more Education cuts. And when they say we're going to cut this because of funding, we're going to say fuck your funding.
Speaker 3:Tax me more. What language?
Speaker 1:Why is my property tax so high? And then they're cutting a professor of Korean. I need Korean, I do need Korean. You know what? Korean is very important actually.
Speaker 3:Every single language is important because you're going to say who takes that.
Speaker 1:Well, guess what Got due to the UNCG had a full class. He damn sure did. Why are you going to cut a full class? You're going to tell me he's losing money. He's got all those students paying credits for that. You're going to say it's pointless.
Speaker 2:That's your university man you need to you know what?
Speaker 1:I never graduated. I'm not an alumni, you?
Speaker 2:need to stand up for those kids, that yeah.
Speaker 1:I stood up as a mascot, and then they kicked me out.
Speaker 2:That's going to be another story, you know.
Speaker 1:Wait for it, wait for it. That's a great story.
Speaker 2:It is. You've told me that story. I did tell you that story, you did.
Speaker 1:Oh, you acted surprised before, so I thought you hadn't heard the story.
Speaker 2:No, I heard it All right.
Speaker 1:Well, then we'll tell it a different day. All right, I got a little alcohol on me. I was ready, but that was fine. All right, it's about time.
Speaker 3:We're at 50 minutes, so you know what time it's for.
Speaker 1:Let me get it, let me get you going.
Speaker 2:Hold on one second, get us going.
Speaker 1:Get us going D. It's time for that dumb shit.
Speaker 3:Wait, there you go. Oh man, you cut my clap. How could you cut my clip? I just shut the door for a second.
Speaker 1:Oh, they were loud man. All right, tell me your story. All right, what's going on today?
Speaker 2:All right, right quick. You have to know this is kind of a problem. Oh, here we go. No, I'm serious. Everything I took. What did you tell me last week? You was like, hey man, you won't own that one.
Speaker 1:last week, yeah, it was about blue, blue, blue water fall on my head.
Speaker 2:You told me that was deep. Don't, don't, don't, leave me now. Well, if it could affect me yet, yeah, all right. So this can affect you too, especially if you're a homeowner or you're renting. It doesn't if you're renting a house.
Speaker 1:Well, you know, I'm a homeowner. Look at this beautiful place in which we stay right now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we we in a and studio B studio studio Z Z section three slash All right. Listen to this. Look it All right. So here's a story out of oh gosh, where is it? Let's, let's. Oh, okay, it's out of Scotland, but it can affect us over here in the US. It is a problem that affects everyone everywhere. If you have a yard, Okay. So this guy was having a problem. He was in his house in Scotland and he looked out his window and he saw a monkey.
Speaker 3:What a monkey.
Speaker 2:What a Japanese monkey, what? Yeah, you think I'm kidding. So it is called a Macau Q.
Speaker 1:I've heard of this. You have not, I'm okay, aren't they the orange ones? No, they're not. Do you have it right there?
Speaker 2:Actually they're white monkeys, and so my thing is he saw the monkey in his yard eating his grass and his vegetables.
Speaker 1:So don't say he killed the monkey.
Speaker 2:He didn't kill the monkey. He called on the monkey so the monkey escaped from the zoo and got out. So they're having a problem with keeping the monkeys in the zoo. So when he called they didn't believe him and basically it was like he said look, there's a monkey in my yard, eat my vegetables and eat my grass.
Speaker 1:They're basically saying stay away from the Scotch you know they pretty much said how high do?
Speaker 2:you have to be? Do you have to be To see a white monkey, not a black one? A white monkey, a white monkey. And so that is that dumb shit, how you let a monkey out.
Speaker 3:You know why didn't they do? The monkey was out.
Speaker 2:But hey, hang on, think about this too. Are we not close to a zoo?
Speaker 3:Asheville Zoo. Asheville Zoo, even after a long way, no, asheville.
Speaker 1:Asheville. It has to get very, very far to get to my backyard.
Speaker 2:You don't think those monkeys can get out.
Speaker 1:They can get out, but they're not going to get to my backyard. How?
Speaker 3:do you know that?
Speaker 1:You know what You're kind of. You're not off base here.
Speaker 2:I'm not.
Speaker 1:And black bears are found in Clemens all the time. What the fuck? Black bears? Yeah, they come from the mountains, but they actually make it all the way down here. Yeah, I've seen one in my backyard man come on, I have All right, you want to tell the raccoon story real quick.
Speaker 2:What raccoon story.
Speaker 1:You know the raccoon story.
Speaker 2:No, we don't have time. I'm going to save that one.
Speaker 1:All right, we're going to save that for a different day.
Speaker 2:All right.
Speaker 1:That's it. I'm just saying how high Do you have to be?
Speaker 2:the lead out of monkey to have a monkey and they never, they still don't believe this cat, to this day Monkeys are intelligent.
Speaker 1:If it was in a zoo it can get out. They're just not one to cop to their lost monkey.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but they have thumbs though, right, I thought that's what separated us.
Speaker 1:We have opposable thumbs. I don't think they have thumbs. That's right.
Speaker 2:I thought monkeys had thumbs. No, I think they only got four. They put their thumbs in each other's buttoes.
Speaker 1:That might be their forefinger. Okay, I'm not actually sure about that.
Speaker 2:All right.
Speaker 1:All right, so that's, that's the show. So what we? What did we learn today, kids? We learned that higher education should not get liberal, get rid of liberal arts. We've learned that David can go too far. Okay, yeah, okay, so everybody, yes, sir.
Speaker 2:Always in droves.
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Speaker 1:Well, I got to set it you ready Well.
Speaker 2:I'm ready.
Speaker 1:You gonna make some noise.
Speaker 2:Probably not. I'm a drink Woo, I like that.
Speaker 3:Wow.
Speaker 1:Wow.
Speaker 2:That's how we black people do that's right. That point eight, that's how you roll brother One nine.
Speaker 1:Oh, goomba, goomba, god damn.