wellRED podcast - A.I Bird Feeders: Harmless Fun For Mamaws, Or Secret Death Machines?

Episode Date: February 12, 2025

In this conversation, the boys discuss the cultural implications of Kendrick Lamar's performance at the Super Bowl halftime show, addressing the backlash against representation in media. They explore the themes of control, freedom of speech, and societal reactions to race and identity. The discussion then shifts to a debate about technology, specifically an AI bird feeder, leading to a broader conversation about the future of artificial intelligence and its potential impact on humanity. In this conversation, the boys delve into the competitive landscape of AI, discussing key players like Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Larry Ellison. They explore the ethical implications of AI development, personal perspectives on consciousness merging, and the potential risks associated with AI, including the gray goo problem. Also, The CHO introduces a new segment: Today in Southern History, where this week he talks about the day Georgia seceded from the Union, and the ramifications it caused CoreyRyanForrester.com to grab tickets to see Corey in Atlanta and Charleston! TraeCrowder.com to see Trae EVERYWHERE! DrewMorganComedy.com Subscribe to WeLoveCorey.com for bonus stuff from The CHO and read his latest essay at: https://coreyryanforrester.substack.com/p/they-not-like-us-the-annual-halftime Go to FactorMeals.com/WellRED50off and use code WellRED50off to get 50% off your first box of heat and eat nutritious meals! Takeaways: The outrage over Kendrick Lamar's performance reflects deeper societal issues. Cultural representation in media often sparks controversy and backlash. Freedom of speech is selectively applied in discussions about race and identity. The AI bird feeder debate highlights the complexities of technology in everyday life.  Artificial intelligence is rapidly evolving and could have significant implications for the future. The conversation around AI often lacks nuance and understanding of its capabilities. Humans may not be prepared for the consequences of advanced AI development. Cultural moments in America are increasingly diverse, challenging traditional norms. The future of AI could lead to both utopian and dystopian outcomes. The merging of technology and humanity raises ethical questions about identity and existence. AI is currently dominated by companies like Deep AI and Alibaba. Sam Altman is seen as a leading figure in AI technology. The ethical implications of AI development are concerning. Merging human consciousness with robotics raises moral questions. The gray goo problem illustrates potential AI risks. Media plays a significant role in shaping public perception of technology. Historical events can provide context for current discussions. Personal experiences can influence views on technology and health. Fitness discussions reveal the importance of health in daily life.   Chapters 00:00 The Bold Beginnings of a Podcast Adventure  02:30 AI Bird Feeders: A New Age of Technology 05:56 Understanding AI: Definitions and Misconceptions 09:50 The Future of AI: Potential and Pitfalls 13:36 Philosophical Perspectives on AI and Its Impact 17:17 The Debate on AI's Impact 20:29 The Future of AI and Humanity 23:21 The Ethical Dilemmas of AI 26:48 The Role of Corporations in AI Development 30:26 The Intersection of AI and Human Experience 34:32 Reflections on History and AI's Future 41:50 The Cost of Innovation 42:06 Ego and Power in Tech 43:34 The Misunderstood Villains 44:32 Personal Accountability and Relationships 46:59 The Struggles of Running 51:58 The Debate on Biking 55:42 Upcoming Shows and Farewells 58:14 Putting on Airs: A Redneck Perspective 59:40 Squirrels and Family Drama: A Humorous Take 01:00:47 Kendrick Lamar's Halftime Show Controversy 01:04:00 Cultural Representation and Control in Entertainment

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some people upset but they got three big old dick, you can suck. Yeah, here we are. It was awful, I don't know what the word, bold of me and us to put a big old in front of the word dicks in our theme song. That was you, yeah, I've thought about that for years. I've thought about that for years and I'm really who I am.

You take that's how you can just tell how different my mindset was at the very beginning of this whole adventure of ours in early 2016. You know, I've always liked that. I would never claim to have a big old dick these days. But back then I was feeling myself. We really were feeling ourselves. We were that lyric line. I don't know how many times we said,

I wish my dick was as big as the Eiffel Tower so I can fuck the world for 72 hours. Like that's exactly how I felt like every day when it was like, you got a book deal. This show wants to do your thing. Like I was like in that zone. But I liked it too because it's like, you know, because you were including all of us,

you had to say big old dicks. Like you couldn't say they got two big old dicks and corys that you can suck. Like it wouldn't have fit the meter. So I just got included on that. And I've never been included in anything like that. Yeah. Well, by the way, y'all, Drew should be showing up. Yeah.

We do this at the same time every week and have for years. I mean, years and years. And it's always a problem for him. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I often be late a lot of times. What happens with me is I just... Yeah, you'll have a meeting. No, I wait too long to get on the bike or go for a run or whatever.

Well, it's your fault, too. It's only me that's ever sitting here at 255. Like, okay, here we go. Correct. But there he is. He's here. Drew's here, everybody. And I'm always on time unless I tell you all, I'm going to be late. I'm not getting thrown into this.

I mean, I just said, mostly me that's late. That's what I was saying when you arrived. he was just talking shit about just the world you know how he'd be i wanted to have a fight with someone who isn't here um and that by that part by that i mean yeah no smart mark you know my surrogate dad nowadays you know um but everybody the the threads surrogate dad mostly just because he's got opinions on surrogacy don't you think he got an opinion on everything you know i guess that's what comes to being smart you know he's he's smart mark snarky mark and the fuck you bunch I call us sometimes

but he anyway earlier he he texted to the group and said my sister just bought my mom an AI bird feeder and then repeated an period a I period

bird period feeder period really emphasizing just how fucking stupid of a thing he thinks that is which is funny to me because I Katie's birthday was recently and I happened to have bought for her an AI bird feeder.

So, can we just catching strays in here immediately. Can we describe, can we, because I want to know what it is and how it's working. Right. So again, I would not have called it an AI bird feeder. I don't think it is.

There's an element of AI. To me, what it mostly- Everything's AI now, dude. You can't get away from it. But to me, mostly what it is, is it's a bird feeder with a goddamn camera on it. So you can see.

all the birds that visit your bird feeder. That's really, that's just cool. Just so everybody knows, Katie asked for the, or it's one of those things where it was like she mentioned while at her mom's house over the holidays that she had seen these bird feeders and she wanted one. So I made a note in my phone by Katie, one of those bird feeders, you know.

And it's been hidden for her. She literally, as Mark was talking shit about it, Katie was texting me pictures from her app of all the birds that have come by today and all this shit. So like, but it's just a bird feeder that has a little camera on it, but, and it's hooked up, the camera is hooked up to a solar panel. So like, you ain't got to charge it or plug it in or nothing. I mean, it's plugged into a solar panel, but still, I thought that was pretty, pretty cool. But on the app, it will also, it will identify the birds.

And it uses AI to identify the birds. And Mark is, we sure, incensed at the existence of this. Well, and this is what I wanted to talk about to the, you know, again, he ain't even. even here, but like, he, I get, AI don't hit and it's ruining the world and all that stuff. He's in AI. Absoluteous stuff. Yes, right. He's like a ludite. He's a ludite about, about AI entirely.

And I'm like, but this, I don't, you know, like, what, what's the problem with this? I was calling the algorithm AI. Because to me, that's what, I mean, there's an intelligence to it and it's artificial. But I thought that the issue with AI and the current. form we've been discussing now that Trump gave Sam all of them $500 billion and then trying to mop the floor with them immediately

was both artificial intelligence in the sense of something that's going to become sentient and kill us all and or these extremely high-end machines that are soaking up so much of the power grid

and are causing a lot of greenhouse gas pollution to run them. That too. And they're taking people's jobs and doing them poorly. They're just generally bad things and making life worse and yada yada. But currently if I'm wrong, like Andy has an app she's had for years, like seven or eight

years. You take a picture of a plant. Plant, I was going to bring that up. Katie has that app. Yeah, I have that too. Now, I understand that's AI. Artificial intelligence. Well, Mark hates that.

I promise you. I don't know that he, but whether he does or not, I want to understand. what we're talking about here. Like, if you, if we're selling bird feeders in America that are like, that are soaking up the same amount of, they're using the same amount of greenhouse. You know what I'm trying to cause the same amount of pollution. I am against that. Sure.

But it feels like that's not really. I don't think they are. Do you know what I mean? And for people who don't know, to create AI images, like you type in, make me an image of a bird that looks like. Mark flipping tray off. I'm going to do that. The processor that does that is taking up a lot of energy, whereas I don't think this is.

By the way, if this is, I'm against it too. Me too. But I don't think it is. Me too, but like the thing with being an AI absolutist is like, I really think that a lot of these people don't really research how much of the stuff that they're using is AI, I like, because it just doesn't explicitly say it. Like, for instance, right, this thing that we're recording on, right? So this, the beauty of the thing that we're recording on, nobody cares about this,

but I'm using it for an example. The beauty of this thing that we're recording on is it records all of us local, right? So we're not streaming. That means we get the best quality audio, period, whatever. Well, at the end, when I go to click export, it takes all of them and merges them together. and I don't have to do it. It does it itself, right? It does it itself.

That is a form of artificial intelligence. That is a, because it's not like there's an Indian sitting behind this thing going, I will merge all these things together. Like also, when you do auto captions on your, any of those things, that is artificial intelligence, right?

I'd say Mark probably knows all of that, and I'd say he probably don't fuck with us. But I guess, yeah, maybe, yeah, Mark, yeah, Mark don't make clicks. and stuff like that. But all I'm saying is like, is like, I'm with Drew. Like,

if we find out that those things are taking as much greenhouse gas away as the images, then like, yeah, it's open AI. I mean, we're talking about an open AI, deep store,

like there are literal products, for lack of a better way to phrase it, that require a certain amount of energy to work. And they're not bird feeder apps. I don't think. No, Corey is right. I mean, at least in the,

way it's i read this very long very in-depth uh article about a i recently and have already forgotten most of it but essentially like probably written by a uh no it was definitely not it was written by a dude that i forgot the guy's name but it's uh nal an irsson the website is called wait but why it's a pretty popular blog and like uh yeah i know that one luigi was a big fan this guy which is what reminded me of his existence is when luigi got caught in there talking about what he'd read. Tim Urban, that's his name, Tim Urban. Politically, he kind of

don't hit for me because he's an enlightened centrist or whatever. He's one of those types, of course. But, like, I found him, because he writes about aliens and shit, which that's how I found him, and it really hits for me. What a thing he's a centrist about? But he,

well, he wrote this whole book. I like Republican, aliens, and Democratic aliens. You know what I mean? I'm friends with both. He wrote this whole book that this website blog of his is popular and then he wrote a full-on book that I never read it but as I understand it

the premise of it is basically why can't we all just get a long type shit? You know what I got it? Everything's too divided. Let's listen to one another. Let's have a conversation, that type of shit. Nope. My thing with that is like

what's the conversation? We try. You're listening to them? Like that might have facts. It's not even really worse saying. But anyway, listen closely. They say the N-word. Yeah.

But not in a funny way. He also wrote a big, big thing. Because all of his blog posts and stuff are like very long and detailed and shit. And I've read the one about AI. And it's like all these different little things like Corey is talking about, those are versions of AI, but they're very, very, very limited. And it's like in any one given case, it's like it's an AI. that only does that one thing.

Right. And then there's artificial AGI, artificial general intelligence, which doesn't exist yet, but that's what Open AI and Deepseek and all them are trying to get to. And then there's above that, there's artificial ASI, artificial super intelligence,

which also obviously doesn't exist yet. But AGI is basically like, it's legitimate, it's like a computer brain, but it is a quick, to a human or better. You know what I mean? It's like, it has its own thoughts.

And it's, you know, can think to everything and all that stuff. And then artificial super intelligence is, you know, like it sounds. It's fucking, you know, like the big, the big head chick from I robot or, uh, it'd be funny if, even Hal from 2001,

I'm not sure if it was hard, would be ASI. But you know what I mean? Like a, like a God. Like a God bot, basically. Wouldn't it be funny if there was an AI that was like so, you know, self-aware and had its own thoughts that after Luca got traded, it killed himself. Like, it just, it went offline.

Like, it was so upset. Just them committing suicide would be pretty funny. I mean, my first thought was, when they do invent it, the first thing is going to say is why, did you? Why? Yeah, probably. I can't die. Way to go, Jack Ed. Yeah.

And that's the thing about Mark's whole deal. And he's probably right, but he's very, very, part of his whole anti-AI thing is also he bags on it all the time. He's like, it's stupid, it sucks, it doesn't work. And it's like... Yeah, it does. Some of it does. Some of it does. A lot of it doesn't. And I know that, but part of the way AI, like, even works, anybody that works now and what they're... Basically...

It trains itself. It trains itself. And so the idea is that essentially we could reach AGI artificial general intelligence in May. We don't know when that's going to happen. But that could happen and fucking two weeks later. ASI could be because of the way the whole thing. It's exponential growth like with a lot of technology. So it sucks right now, but like

tomorrow it could level up into fucking sky net or whatever. Especially when Google is done with quantum computing, which they seem really... Yes, that's a big that is a huge part of it. Let me just say something. I've read about this stuff and I'm pretty smart and I don't feel qualified to discuss it, which is not to say I want to cut the conversation

off. I just like, it's almost like a let me just throw that out there. I'm well aware that some of this stuff is over my head, both feels philosophically and scientifically. But I understand someone being philosophically opposed to AI in general. Like I genuinely do. Correctly if I'm wrong, Trey, you seem more aware of this stuff. There's a disconnect, though.

We are going down the slippery slope. We're testing the waters. If that's possible in the physical universe, we are absolutely going to run this train into the fucking wall. But that feels kind of separate from what bird is that? I agree. Like outside, we call it artificial intelligence because this thing we've created is doing something that we associate with intelligence. And it's automated.

It really has no synchience or capability of it. It's literally just mining data. Yeah. It's a program. No, you're 100% right. That's part of what I was trying to say is like a lot of these things like the examples Corey was given or the bird figure app are like they're not really AI the way people mean AI when they used to say it. but now AI's thrown around all over. It's like you said, they're just like very sophisticated programs that operate on their own or whatever.

But they are pretty separate from Skynet shit in the future. Both philosophically and environment, right? Yes, yes. Yeah, the SkyNet ones are the ones that are going down that path are the ones that have massive server farms and the quantum computing and supercomputers and all that stuff to work. And those are the ones that are a massive drain on. Which is not to say that the Bird app is. is great for the environment, but it's like, to me, he's railing against having one of these.

You know what I mean? Like, it's the same. And that's fine. If that's fine, if that's where you're at. You've got to get rid of your phone now, too, because every single, the, not even just the new phones. Like, I just updated my system and it's got Apple intelligence on it. And it uses it whether I want it to or not. Like I show you.

I'm getting rid of my phone. I showed you. Let me tell you guys something. When it comes to the open AI shit, I'm squarely on Mark's team. I am too. I just don't believe the bird feeder has shit to do with that. I could not agree with you more, but my thing is like, so I was looking into it, and it's like all of Samsung's, like, all the new ones have it, you know, and like, I do need a phone

that takes good cameras, pictures and stuff like that. Like, I can't go back to a flip phone, like, with what I do. And, like, I mean, maybe they've got a thing where I can turn it off and I just haven't seen it yet. but yeah like essentially what mark's doing which again i'm with him on the open eye stuff but like he's being like at one point there was a guy who put a bunch of planks of wood together and mounted his own homemade engine on it and started driving it around and it was sputtering and that was his car and the and the guy was like this is fucking stupid this is dumb this is not a thing and it's like yeah right now sure but then it will end up

being a thing. Like, I think Mark is kind of being a little naive on... That's what I was trying to say. It's like, no, I know. You said about you. Me? The royal you, too, though. Like, I think Mark is like, you see this guy drive around with two pieces of wood, and I'm telling you that's going to cause global warming, and you're going, how the fucks are going to do that? No, no. No, I came around on that. Like, I, by the way, I didn't know all that stuff.

I was genuinely ignorant. It's more that Mark, it always, just yesterday, we're just yesterday, we're just, talking about AI on skews and stuff. And he's always just like, he just really, really also down plays it. He's like, it's not worth all this money and attention on his stuff because it sucks. It doesn't work.

That's where I think he's talking about those other ones. That's why I always thought he was talking about that. That's why this confused me today. No, he's talking about Sam Altman and all those motherfuckers. Right, that's what I'm saying. I'm sorry. He's kind of right, but my thing is just like,

I don't think it always will, though. Like, I think we're headed down that track, no matter what anybody does. Well, and it's going to, I don't know how it's going to end up, but I think it's going to get fucking wild. And I feel like Mark is just always like, I'm not saying we shouldn't shut it all down because it's dangerous, but Mark both hates it, but also it seems like part of the reason he hates it is because he thinks it's all fraudulent, snake oil, charlatanry or whatever.

I'm a defendant. And I don't know that I agree with that part. I think it could be a very, very, very. very real thing and it could happen real quick too. But I don't think there's a logical inconsistency to be like, this is dumb, it's not working, it's a waste of money, and then to add to it. And if that ever changes, that's the worst news I've ever heard. I don't think that's necessarily illogical.

I just don't see the bird app as even being a part of either of those conversations. I don't know. Unless you just kind of go, I'm against all of it, because. And I guess this is true. It's like an Overton window kind of thing. They tell you birdwatching's AI. They tell you the way you keep up with your school, your kid's school calendars AI. And you get used to AI and AI is your buddy.

And then, you know, the next thing I know you're worshipping it. You know what I mean? Like convincing you that AI is fine by telling you these very basic programs are the equivalent to a fucking quantum supercomputer that's going to murder us all. Yeah. And I'll say this, which I've tried to say to Mark a million different times, but he's just not, because you know how Mark is. Once he gets his stance, like, that's just fucking it.

Like, I'll admit that when I was wrong, like, when all of this first came out, and they were like, oh, this is going to be used to replace screenwriters and stuff like that, that obviously was, to me, the thing that worried all of us and me, us, specifically in our, like, genre, like, oh, fuck. So, like, I got on there, and I started putting in some funny prompts, and I was sending them to the group, like, write a such and such in the form of Trey Crowder. And they were all fucking hilarious. Like hilariously stupid, right?

And I just thought it was all innocent or whatever. And then, you know, I didn't think anything of it. And Mark, then Mark explained to me the whole, like, these are using these super processors that are taking a lot of power away. And like, every time you do this, a tree falls in the woods. I genuinely didn't know that. Once I found that out, I was like, oh, fuck, never mind. I'm sorry. But, like, I didn't know that.

You know, and now that I do, I'm, like, firmly. in the camp of fuck at all. But again, back to what you were saying, I do not think the bird app is doing that. Well, here's what I want to say, and I already know what both your answers are going to be, and I guess I don't blame you. Because it's a risk-reward situation, but

all these people who are engaged in this, at any kind of professional level, either actively working on it or, you know, futurologists and that type of thing, all of whom I think are smart, but they're also, you know, there's also a lot of them are lunatics or whatever the fuck at the same time.

But the big debate, even amongst them, is what they all pretty much seem to agree that it will eventually happen unless we governmentally shut down and make it illegal. Yeah, yes, that eventually we will get there one way or another. And a lot of them think like it could happen a lot quicker than people believe, meaning like within the next decade or something. That's how exponential works. Part of the idea, yes, part of the idea is that, again, we'll go from zero to 60 real fun. fucking quick and then 60 to 500 in the blink of an eye right after that. But the argument is when that does happen, whenever that is, is it going to be, you know, the ascendance of humanity to a higher utopic plane or the, you know,

or a quantum supercomputer malicious robot god that murders us all out of contempt and fun. Like in the short story, I have no mouth and I must scream, which is one of my favorites, which that's what that's about. It's hard to even hear that title. I know. And it's so fucked up too. And that's literally exactly what it's about. But,

you know, the people that are optimist about it are like, you know, people don't, when they say an artificial superintelligence, we can't even conceive of what that actually means in terms of what it would be capable of. If it's a legitimate ASI,

and it's like it could, it could answer any question that we needed answered. How can you manufacture? your more efficient car engine or how can you like solve world hunger or whatever it can we can just do that spit out the word taxes and then they're going to blow it up

dude we can barely in the way the country's going we can barely fathom normal intelligence anymore so it could literally be the solution to all of humanity's once in future problems or but they won't use it that way

it's kind of not up to them the idea is that right right it's it's a it's a it's a thing tell it what to do. That's part of what's so freaky about it. Right. Like, it would be, it would choose.

And we're the ones training it. And if we're the ones training it, it's not getting a lot of empathetic input. You know what I mean? Like, it's not, the worst people in the world are the ones training it. Therefore, when it does reach sentience, it's not going to think, let's help all the people out. It's going to think, let's destroy all of them. They're the worst people ever. Maybe.

might also be smart enough to know what you just said. You know what I mean? Yeah. We don't know. We can't know. I think it probably would kill us all and that don't hit for me. I mean, I hope. I can't,

the way I am and, you know, I grew up loving science fiction and shit like that. I can't help but think about the other possibility, you know, what that would be like. To be here, to be the ones that are here during this whole thing that people

been talking about forever. Do you think it's going to kill all the dogs? I don't know. May kill everything. May turn us in. But like, but I'm being serious. I'm not just doing a bit because I don't know if it'll give a shit about us.

It won't. It'll be like. Well, that's other, that's also a possibility. There's one of my favorite sci-fi series. That one of my, actually my all-time favorite science fiction series, which is called the Hyperion Cantos.

In that series, that's exactly what happened. Humanity made an ASI and it like fucked off of me. It's like, y'all don't hit. And it left and went and started its own thing. somewhere else and basically has nothing to do with this anymore. Well, think about this, like, it's, you know, this thing is sentient and it's, and it's trying actively to solve all of humanity's problems.

And it goes, okay, I'm looking at this list of things that people bitch about the most. And one of them is global warming and how we're screwing up the, uh, the, the, the ecosystem or whatever. It's pretty immediately going to get to the point of where it goes, you know, who's doing it. It's people. And if people were gone, the earth, would regenerate and be fine.

So, like, if we want to save the earth, let's just kill the people, and that'll be fine. And not the dogs. And not, no, because the animals don't do anything harmful to the ecosystem. The only, the only reason cows fuck the ecosystem up is because we make too many cows. And that happens. You know what I mean? Well, yeah, there's also nanotechnology, which people are working on at the same time.

And that's like, you know, kind of like how we can 3D print stuff, but a much crazier thing, basically fabricating whatever you want to, seemingly out of thin air with these. They're also running machines out of brain tissue that they're in a lab now. So the bad futures here, I think to your question,

which I didn't get a chance to answer, to me, it barely matters. It fucking off is what I hope it does, to some extent. The idea of human ascendance, I mean, really, though, that's like based in the idea

that we'd merge with it. And that don't hit for me. So whether it murders us all or we merge with it, to me, humans as we know it is over. I'm not personally for that. Like there are transhumanists, which basically just means like people who are pro or not against the idea of like robot tech and human consciousness merging. I am not one of those people. It bothers me in a way that I can't quite articulate. it's almost like the uncanny valley principle when you see something that looks almost human but it's not quite it bothers you like the way mark Zuckerberg's face looks for example um that's how i feel about the whole conversation like there's something disturbing to me about it in general so i'm not trying to dodge the question or be like super clever genuinely whether we merge with it or it murders us all to me is kind of the same outcome right maybe for not individuals i mean maybe if nine billion people die

whereas on the other version, a few live on forever. And by the way, that's what I think this is about, genuinely. And the person I agree with most on this in the first half, he had me in the first half, not going to lie, is, believe it or not, Steve Bannon. If you look at who's currently leading this in America, I can't speak to the philosophy of the Chinese businesses or the Chinese government with what they got going on, they have two right now that are kicking ours. Deep AI and Ali Baba.

A-I-C or? No, I think it's Ali-Baba, are whooping our ass. Who would have thought that they would whip our ass in this? That's crazy. But the three people in this country leading the charge are Sam Altman, who's partnered with a guy named Larry Ellison, and then Elon Musk. Elon Musk, yeah. Now, Elon is getting his ass whipped by Sam Altman in the tech side.

So that's part of why he's playing. in the political side at the moment. Larry Ellison founded Oracle officially, unofficially, and this is documented. This isn't... Oracle is the best name. Oracle was literally a CIA project. And then when Larry Ellison founded it

when they took it public or whatever, my point with all this is genuine... And I could go on about Altman a little bit. Of the three, he might be the best, but he has said openly in the... past, AI will cause an end to humanity as we know it, but a few companies will get rich. Right. These are evil people.

And I want to be very clear about that. I mean evil. Evil in the sense that the conversation we're having, the only way it's relevant to them is it excites them to be the guys causing the conversation. Of course. They do not give a shit about other human beings. And therefore, I'm just like, it does put me in Mark's. camp a little bit like I don't think the bird app's a big deal unless it makes everyone cool with AI right even if so even if it's just like a branding thing an Overton window thing of like hey this is AI yeah I's your buddy it's the bird thing yeah right I don't think I could be more against something my my only thing my you know the whole merging merging robotics with human consciousness to me like right now I'm like purely against it but I'm also like aware enough of myself to know that that

that situational because like hypothetically, you know, I had a kid old, right? And I've also always wanted to be a granddad. So hypothetically, I'm 90 years old and Bain has a grandkid and I've got the money and someone is like, hey, I can give you 45 years with your grandkid, but you're going to have to merge you, we're going to merge your consciousness with a robot. There's a big part of me that would be like, I got to do it, man. You know what I mean? In some ways, kudos to you for acknowledging that aspect to yourself because people like Larry Ellison want money. Yeah. And people like Elon must want money and power and control. And so people see that and they go, man, I would never do that. But you would if the answer was like, that's what they're going to use AI for.

Right, right, right. What would you use it for? Yeah. And again, I'm not saying that I would. I'm just saying that like that's a conversation I could see myself having because that's so emotional for me, you know. like it's you never know what you would do until you're in that situation is all I'm saying what you want give me what I want exactly I don't think I mean out of the premise of neural link Elon's whole thing was always you know what you were saying like the only way to get to beat

the coming AI superintelligence is to become it or whatever but I don't think everyone agrees that it necessarily has to work that way it could be a version of it that is just but it it would initially, without like nanotechnology or something, all it can do is like think, really, unless it's like so advanced that it can, it basically has telekinesis and can manipulate reality with no physical appendages or whatever. But a lot of people think it needs to be paired with nanotechnology, which are self-replicating bots that use any kind of carbon-based material to feed their process. And other people have posited, I read a Michael Crichton 25 years ago, had a book about this.

where it's called the gray goo problem where basically they malfunctioned, the nanobot, they just start replicating and never stop and just consume the entire planet with, you know, this gray goo, which is made up of countless of these little self-replicating nanobots, and they just kill and eat us all just because that's what they do. They replicate, and that programming overrides everything. A lot of people also say we anthropomorphize everything, but also these AI possible AIs, you know, that they may not, you know, that they won't be, they'll be so completely different in the way that they process anything or, or, you know, even, quote,

think about stuff at all, you know, that there's just no way to know how they would actually react to any of it. But like, or what they would do about it. But hypothetically, you know, again, it could solve mortality. it could, you know, make us a galaxy spanning civilization and all kinds of crazy, crazy shit. I love that Michael Crichton's entire

genre is scientists were so concerned on whether or not they could that they didn't consider whether or not they should. Yeah, it's exactly. Dude, he hit for me so hard. He's the king of that. As a teenager, I love fucking Michael Cri.

Have you ever read Jurassic Park? Yeah, I've read all of his books. Yeah, I really wish they would do it. a huge fan. Yeah, I really wish they would do that as a like, like an HBO series because there's so much in the book. Yeah. That's a good idea.

But I have to say, he had this one book called State of Fear. Yeah. That's Tennessee. Part of it is great because state of fear is talking about the media, you know, if it bleeds, it leads, the media tries to keep people in a state of fear. The media and the government want the populace kept in a. constant state of fear because it's more profitable to the media and they're also more manipulatable or controllable for the government, right? And, uh, and that part hits. But the whole

other part of the book that he uses to like prove that point is him, uh, calling global warming bullshit the whole time. Which like, so yeah, Michael Crout is super in for me, but he also was apparently a climate change denier. But yeah, he was like, that was his explanation, but he's like, people are like, why would they do that? You know, why, why I lie about global warming and his whole thing was because they want

a state of fear. It might not be Michael Critton. Why wouldn't they quit by now then? Maybe he died 20 years ago or whatever. This book is like 25 years old. Maybe it's an unreliable narrator and not actually Michael Crichton's thoughts. You know what I mean? No, I think we're probably for him. But anyway, it's

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Yay. Yay. How about that? Not crickets. Yeah, actually crickets. That works. On this day in 1861, the great state of Georgia decided it had had just about enough of the United States and packed up its metaphorical bags to go live that independent life, kind of like a teenager

who slams their bedroom door and swears they're never coming out until they get, you know, hungry or their iPad dies. Or in this case, their state gets boring. burnt to the fucking ground by a crazy-ass Yankee that God love him sure could have benefited from some therapy. Now, in Georgia's defense, which, let's be real, it rarely deserves, it wasn't alone. By the time Georgia officially seceded, a handful of other southern states had already stormed off like a bunch of plantation-owning drag queens. And no, I didn't mean drama queens.

These plantation owners literally wore pantyhose, capri pants, wigs, and makeup. Hell, half the people who defend them today would beat the shit. out of them in a Walmart parking lot if they saw them. But, like I said, it wasn't only Georgia who did this. It's just that Georgia did theirs with Flair. They held a whole ass convention in

Millageville. Who the fuck even knows about Millageville? But yes, that used to be the Capitol. This big-ass convention they held in Millageville was basically just a party where a bunch of rich white dudes sat around and said, well, you know what? I reckon we could run things better

without the federal government, telling us what to do, which if you've ever seen Georgia try to handle a snowstorm or a fourth quarter rally from a backup quarterback, you know that was a bold statement. The main reason for secession, well, let's not beat around the bush. Slavery. Oh, sure, some folks will try to dress it up and call it states right, but that's like saying my cousin broke into our grandmother's medicine cabinet just to see if the hinges on the door worked. Sure, you can say all you want, but we know what you really wanted and you're just being a line piece of shit about it. Georgia even put it in writing in the declaration of the immediate causes which induce and justify the secession of Georgia, a title

that's about as subtle as a Waffle House parking lot fight at 3 a.m. over who stole the last menthol. They outright said that the federal government was getting way too nosy about the whole slavery situation and they couldn't just have that. Of course, we all know how it turned out. Georgia its rebellious cousins went and got themselves into a four-year ass-kicking contest with the union, and it did not go their way. Turns out when your economy is based on unpaid labor and King Cotton, you might not have the industrial infrastructure to win a war against the country that invented, wait for it, industrial infrastructure.

Atlanta got burned to the ground. Sherman took a little march to the sea, and in 1865, Georgia came limping back like a dog that ran away from. from home only to realize it didn't know how to fucking hunt. Fast forward 164 years and Georgia is still a little torn about the whole thing. On one hand, we've got a booming economy, thriving cities and the best damn college football team in the country. Go dog, sick them. Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho. On the other hand, there are still a few folks out here in 2025 who think the Confederacy was just about heritage and insist on flying the stars and bars from their

jacked up piece of shit pickup trucks trucks by the way that were built by the same federal government they claimed to hate so happy georgia seceded and immediately regretted it day y'all may we continue to learn from history assuming we ever decide to start reading it and that was brought to you by our friends at factor i want to know what you think about general sherman core hits for me okay yeah didn't used to when I was a kid because all I knew about him was he came here and burnt our whole stuff down but as far as there was any kind of like you know I don't know like any kind of conflict internally where it's like look we weren't hitting I did it but at the same time god damn boy I'm still from Georgia and yeah he said everything on fire so there's a there's a little bit of that but I mean I'm a results based man

and and like that that got it dude we weren't We weren't hit. We're hitting. And that's what happens. Like, if you're not hitting, your shit gets burnt down. I don't know what to tell you. And, like, the means justify the ends or whatever it is. Yeah, Japan ought to be paying more attention to that.

You know what I'm saying? You're goddamn right, son. Yep, sure made some crazy cartoons because of it. But, you know, like, I don't know. Isn't that weird that we drop a bomb on Japan and now their pussies are all blurry on the internet? I don't like that. The weirdest part is that we killed their God, is what I've always, you know. That's true, which that hits.

Well, somebody did them a favor as far as that goes. Yeah, exactly. You don't know by the need of God. Yeah, but I reckon that is true. Basically, after we bombed them, they all stopped believing in God, which, you know, hard to blame them, I guess. But can I just say speaking of Japan and industrial infrastructure? Am I delayed? What happened?

No, we're listening to them. Say that. Yeah, we're listening intently. I think the actual goal of the AI people was just to automate everything. Like, I don't think they care about any of that other shit. I think they just want to automate as much as possible, to make as much money as possible. Well, yeah.

Okay. Yeah, for sure. And if it ends up exploding us, like, that's just, you know, what happens. That's the cost of doing business. Well, it's just that we frame these conversations, like, these are, you know, Titans of Industry having these stuff. They don't care about that. I don't know.

Don't get me wrong. This is not me trying to give them more credit than I think they deserve. I just really think that at least some of these guys are kind of like mad scientist, true believer motherfuckers who are like obsessed with the ideas of some of these, you know. And they want to make money too. Like, and they are capitalists and all that. But I think their ego is so big about this shit that they really do think about like, I could change the course of human.

in history. Like, they're Norman Osborne. I just think we're saying something. It's not a philosophical question for them.

Well, they think... It's a question of power and their relationship to it. Well, that's the thing

that, like, a lot of people don't think about, but it's true. Like, it has to be true in a certain way. Like,

Lex Luther thinks he's the good guy and Superman is not. And, like, you can, in any, any villain,

in any story, like they believe that they are correct. They're just misunderstood. You know what I mean? Like I don't think Sam Altman or even Elon Musk for that matter wakes up and goes, ah, I'm so evil. I'm going to do some evil shit today. Like for some fucked up reason, they, I don't know what it is that they have to tell themselves

in the mirror every day to make, to justify what they're doing. But like they do it and they really do believe in the shit that they're doing. and at a certain point, I think. I think I disagree. I mean, I've come to the same conclusion as you. I think it's like there's no conversation in the mirror in the morning. Not about that. I mean, I think there's definitely one of like, you're fucking awesome.

But I just, the only way I can say it, and maybe I'm having a hard time expressing it is what I said. You know, I don't think it's a philosophical question for them. It's just an engineering one. How do I get this done? Why? Because I want to. And if I don't do it, somebody else will. It hits for me anyway.

How much does it not hit for y'all when like your wife turns out to have been right about something? I haven't experienced it yet, but I don't imagine. Oh, right, yeah. My bad. You don't understand what you're saying. It does happen. First of us to be. I'm not sure yet.

It hits me a little bit. Andy's very cute about it. Yeah. Well, here's the most recent one. I'm trying to switch up. You know, I've been riding the Peloton for a long, long time. and I'm trying to switch it up because you just, you know, whatever shit gets up,

it's just good to switch stuff up. So I've been jogging, running again, which in that, you know, I've always hated running, but it's like I'm trying to force myself. But, but there's something about it. But, and I went running multiple times, including I ran a 5K with Katie at fucking 5 in the morning at goddamn Disneyland and, you know, ran a bunch of 5K has been the, that's the distance I've been doing every time, 3.1 or 2 miles or whatever it is. and I've done it a bunch and it's been totally fine.

My shoes are old and I told Katie I wanted to go to this place called Fleet Feet, right? Which is a running store. Right down there, right down from your old house, right? Yeah. And they, they're all about running and they got like shoes and clothes and all this stuff. And they also have women in there. They have this stuff that would not hit for Mark, I'm sure, that like, scans your feet, right?

You like walk on this digital pad and it scans your feet and it says, you know, you have high arches. Yeah, which is a good thing. That's how I found out I had planar fasciitis and I don't have pain anymore. And then based on that, they say for someone with high arches, we recommend these shoes. It's supposed to be like the best possible thing you can do, right? Yeah. I told Katie I was going to go there and do that.

And she goes, yeah, well, just so you know, I went there and did that one. and worst pair of shoes I ever had. My feet hurt. They kill me. They hurt like crazy as the fuck of this. I don't think they know what they're doing there. It sucks. It's a waste of money.

You shouldn't do that. And I was like, so you know more about all this feet stuff than these, you know, feet people or whatever? It's like, you sure that's what it was. And, you know, and she was like. No, Trey. I just know what happened to me. Yeah.

And she's like, whatever, we'll see. Right. Or, you know, you'll see, whatever. I go down there, get my feet scan, spend $200 total. I'm here to get my feet stand. Yeah. And y'all got me you got a trade credit in a little list? I got Dwayne eyes.

I'm not sure that it's the shoes that I bought as part of that process, but I just got them and I've only ran twice. And today the second time, I almost couldn't walk back home because of the shin splints were so bad. I was like limped back home. God, this has gotten off. Shins and ankles were hurting so bad. You being wrong and in pain?

God damn. And the whole time I'm just like, you know, I'm hoping it. something else it could. You're going to wear him seven more times. I am going to keep wearing him. You're 100% right. I'm going to text her. I'm going to let her know so she can keep asking you about it. Trey, where's your shoes? You're not going to wear your new ones? I'm not going to wait a couple months until he's in the hospital. Yeah, right. You're not going to wear your shoes? Your new ones? Well, look, obviously Katie's right in this situation, but I will tell you that I went to a place because my feet, no matter what, you know, I walk a lot. And I just chalked it up

to like, well, goddamn, dude, if you walk 10 miles a day, your feet are going to hurt. Like, it really kind of don't matter. And I went and got my feet scanned, and this dude was like, dude, you have Planner Fasciatus. Like, you've got it pretty bad. He's like, if you just put these insoles in, like, you'll be good. And I was like, this guy doesn't understand how much I walk. Sure as shit, never once have I had pain since then. Never once.

And I am probably, as crazy as it sounds, one of the most active people, that we all know. Like, I'm on my feet all the fucking time. I'm either jogging or walking. And by the way, I agree with you that jogging sucks. To me, jogging is kind of like, it's a little like writing. You know what I mean? Where it's like, while you're doing it.

Having done it is great, but doing it sucks dick. Once you get done with it, you're like, I'm so glad I did that. And I feel great. The first time I heard in one of those deals, I feel like it was like 2002. And I just can't help to feel like they didn't. ain't changed the damn thing about it since then because there's no money in changing it. It's like, we did it. We got a few new customers, people who are into this.

But what's the point of having? Because it's in the store, right? Yeah. So just from like a capitalistic business standpoint, but like obviously at the University of Stanford, the one they got is on point. And then Nike's using that to design shoes. But like this place, I assume there's one, there's multiple in the L.A. area. There are.

Yep. Yeah, I just feel like that's that. You run an Atari. and you thought you were getting the PlayStation 5. You know what I mean? Yeah, very possible. Either way, it don't hit. But yeah, running, I just, I don't know, like,

I used to just think I just hated all cardio. And, like, lifting weights was the only thing that actually I enjoyed. But then I got Katie bought the Peloton, and I, like, I dig that and always have dug it. It don't bother me at all, right? Don't hurt your butt. No, I mean, we bought a cushion immediately.

If you ain't been on one with a cushion it makes a world of difference. But that hit for me right out the gate, and it hits for me still. And that's when I realized like, oh, it's not all cardio. It's just fucking running. God, I hate running, right?

But shows right. When you are done with it, it's like, and you feel better when you're done with any workout, but I really genuinely believe that for some reason running specifically, I know. It's real. I always thought that runners high was just the word for feeling, good after exercising.

No, but it's real, man. Running specifically, for some reason, you feel even better than if you wait real hard or rode a bike or whatever, even though you do feel better after those things, not as much better.

Especially outside. It's just like, for some reason. I don't get it. It's a cult for white people and the women are disappearing while they do it. But, um... You just come up with that? Yeah.

That was good. That's fucking great. It's just like Scientology, one of the ways they get you is the first time you go for your test, whatever they call it, clearance or whatever. Yeah. If you've been there for like eight hours, and then when they let you out, after you finally say you never forgive your dad or whatever it is, you feel great. And then they go, see how much better you feel? Dianetics is real. And you go, undeniably, I feel wonderful.

That euphoria is that you had been kidnapped and they let you go. you are done running. That's why you feel good. Your body is like, thank God. This fat, dumb motherfucker, stop doing that. Yeah. Drew's on fire. I got a question.

I got a question because you were talking about Peloton. So I've been wanting to, I used to like riding bikes when I was a kid. But now when I ride bikes, like, it fucks my backup because you got up, you know, you're bent over or whatever. How hard are y'all going to make fun of me when I get one of those bikes? that you sit down in.

You know what I... My father-in-law is. They look fun. Like, it looks like I'm riding a go-court, because I see people in the park all the time, and it's like, they're getting the same exercise because their feet are going, but they're sitting down,

and they're driving it like a car, and I'm like, that's the one for me. But every time I go to pull the trigger, I know, but every time I go to pull the trigger, I just see y'all's face, and I'm like, God, damn it. Like, I can't be doing this. You get a propeller half.

That's what I was, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was going to say one of those little round Marvin, the Martian helmets or whatever. My father-in-lawed a few of those. I can just give you one of his old ones to try out. He has lower back. A recumbent? His lower back issues is why he got him. I think that's a big part of why they were invented. The other reason he got one is he got a concussion on his regular bike and the whole family was like.

Yeah. I don't think, I mean, look, the difference is minuscule, but you said, you know, you're getting the same exercise. You're doing the same thing. But I don't think that's technically true because. the core part of the upper body process of riding a regular bike, that also is doing something. Yeah, but I do not having to do that if you're sitting down. But I already do planks anyway. So like, what does it matter?

You know what I mean? Like, I get that, I get that part of my core work. And also, I have no problem with the Marvin, the Martian helmet, because, like, I am very, look, I've not been cool for since the day I was born. I got no problem with it. And also, like, I have ADD, so I have no doubt that I'll be riding this bike and I will see, you know, I'll see something and I'll veer off and I'll wreck into something. And I do want my head protected. Here's a practical thing that I'll also tell you is somebody who's done a whole lot of biking and not just on a Peloton, but also, like, not the idea of being into one of those, no, not being able to stand up would drive me completely.

insane. Yeah, look there. That hits. That's what you need. That is what you need. Just put that on. But when you bite for a while, like sitting down and I imagine sitting back, I would think it would feel the same way. Your legs start to scream at you

to stand up, to extend and like stretch them out or whatever. I can't hear you. Did you accident and mute yourself or today? Yeah, yeah, my baby's up here screaming. I could stand up for a minute and I could get out and stand up for a minute. You have to stop and get out.

I mean, like, you know, stand up and keep peddling when you stand. In Peloton workouts, that's part of it. They make you stand up periodically, but it's good because it's like a release. Like, if you didn't get to stand up, it is torturous. I think genuinely, in my opinion. Like, I did not be able to stand up. There's part of me, too, that thinks it would be easier to put Bain in there with me, you know, like sit him on my lap and right around as opposed to, because I don't like,

like that whole. I see people all the time with the baby on the back of the regular bike and like, I get it, but I'm like, dude, if I wreck, which like, that's possible, like, that's not going to hit. And also, I can't see him. I don't like that. I don't like that I can't see him, you know. Cousin Tasha had to throw her youngest in a river and a trash can. And and then she wrecked and got cut very bad. And he has like double PTSD from being thrown and then also her injury. Yeah. Getting yeated by your mama wouldn't hit.

And then you land and turn around and she's bleeding to death. Yeah. It was going to be a hell of a defensive tackle. I can tell you that much right now. Joe, they got, I don't know if it's like attachments or what, but I've seen white people with these bike things that are like strollers, but also bikes.

Yeah. It's like, man, I think, actually, I think we had one of those when we lived in no green. You were you pulled behind it in the stroller? Give it to me. I think they have both. They also have some that are on the front, the kid is on the front so you can like see the kid as your...

That's what I want. I have to be able to see him at all times. I say I have to be able to see him at all times. He's literally behind me in a cage screaming while I'm talking to y'all. It's like, ah, it's fine in the cage. I don't think that's good. I think you're supposed to go get him. He's only in there for six minutes because this time happens to be when Amber leaves to go get.

Well, we're at 56 minutes anyway, so, hell listen, y'all come and see me, go to trackrouter.com this weekend. I'll be in Kentucky, Louisville and Bowling Green. Louisville sold out. Thank you, Louisville. Bowling Green. There's still some left. The fuck, Bowling Green.

Yeah, I know. And last time I went to Bowling Green, I was in a little, a smaller room, but it sold out. And Bowling Green is like, that's near Salina. God damn it. What are you doing? Oh, now I know what happened. Well, I guess you're right. That does explain it.

But I'm still disappointed. But anyway, then after that is the Carolinas and then Florida and then everywhere else. So go to try Crowder.com and make a hit. Drew got. I have a sold-out show that you guys can't come to in Athens this weekend with Corey. I'm opening for Trey. I got an audition thing in Nashville, not until like April 12th. I'm honestly, I'm chilling.

Are you sure that all? Did you get that mixed up, or is that right? Because April 12th is supposed to be our show. Is that when that audition is? I think yours is the 11th, because I looked. I thought the 12th was, you might be right. Maybe the 11th is with you and the 12th is with Corey. I guess that's what it is.

I'm chilling all of March. I'm going to be down in New Orleans. If you see me there, no, you didn't. Hey, I'm going to be in Atlanta and Charleston coming up very quick. And like you said, me and Drew sold out Athens with our good friends to drive-by truckers, so thank you all for buying those. But I'll be in Atlanta and Charleston very soon. You can grab those tickets at Corey Ryan Forester.com.

Also, today I put out a free essay. I wrote about Kendrick at the Super Bowl. You can read that completely for free. It's on all of my socials. But if you want the audio version of it, please go to we love Corey.com and subscribe. Also, my latest for the AJC is out. And thank you all for, go ahead.

Real quick, that place in Louisville, if I told you all what it's called? No. It's called the B-O-M-H-A-R-D theater. The B-O-H-H-H-H-R-D theater. The Bomb Heart Theater in Louisville, so. Go see him. I hope that's not an omen.

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Thank you. God bless you. Good night and skew. Park. Bart. And we're going to talk a lot. They not like us. The annual halftime show Hissy Fit by Corey Ryan Forster. Well, there it is.

Another Super Bowl, another halftime show, another round of people acting like America itself is circling the drain because a black man had the audacity to take center stage and tell the truth. This year's villain, Kendrick Lamar. Now, I'd love to tell you that the outreux. rage was about the music, but let's not kid ourselves. It wasn't about beats or lyrics or whatever made up moral standards folks suddenly discovered between the first and second bud light. Wait, are they drinking them again now that Shane Gillis is in the commercial? No, it was about something

much simpler, something older than the sport itself. It was about control, about who gets to stand in the bright lights and who is expected to stay in the shadows. See, Kendrick got up there and did what great artists do. He took the biggest stage in America and told a story. His story. The story of a people this country has spent a long, long time trying to pretend don't exist, or at least shouldn't. He rapped about oppression, about injustice, about survival,

and the same folks who will tell you how much they love free speech suddenly couldn't handle it. some of them were mad that a black man was on their tv at all some of them were mad that too many black men were on their tv at once and some of them god helped them all were mad that kendrick dared to call out actual pedophiles it's not the right place or time children are watching Yes, you heard that right. The same people who spent the past five years screaming that every Democrat, teacher, librarian, and drag queen's story hour is secretly running an underground child trafficking ring, lost their minds when Kendrick Lamar stood on that stage and did something they've never actually done, called out real predators with power. Pick a damn lane, y'all. Either you hate pedophiles, or you just like saying you do. And if that wasn't enough, They had the nerve, the absolute gall, the cahones, my dad would say, since it's the only

Mexican word he knows besides fajitas, to whine that there weren't enough white people on stage. Oh, I'm sorry. I thought y'all didn't care about inclusion. I thought DEI was ruining everything. I thought hiring quotas were the worst thing to ever happen to America, aside from the 69, 79, 89 cent menu leaving Taco Bell, that is. turns out when they finally let the best performers get the job based on talent alone,

black people won because let's be honest, black people are the best dancers. No, I'm not afraid of being canceled or called a racist for saying that. And if I do, I'll die knowing I fought for the damn truth. The fact that this was the moment y'all suddenly started caring about fairness tells me everything I need to know. Now, look, I know what's coming. Facebook uncle is going to slide in here and say, but what if there was an all white halftime show?

Wouldn't y'all be mad? Nobody. We'd call that every halftime show before 1995. But actually, yeah, unless it was the drive-by truckers, I think I would be mad. Here's the thing, and I say this with love. You are not oppressed because the Super Bowl halftime show doesn't cater specifically to you.

Just like I'm not oppressed in a dairy-free ice cream store. It is not discrimination just because for one single night, you had to sit and watch someone else get their moment in the sun. For decades, entertainment in this country looked like a damn J.C. Penny catalog, and y'all didn't have a word to say about it. And by the way, I know this is coming out of nowhere, but I got to say it. Ed Sullivan fucking sucked. So bad.

All he had going for him was that he was white and had good posture, I reckon. But now, now that the biggest cultural moments in America don't always star people who look like you, now it's woke gone too far. And by the way, any conservative reading this who can define woke, I'll pay off your cyber truck and sew tities on myself. Buddy, it ain't woke. It's just reality. And you just don't like it. And if I may borrow a phrase you love to toss around during the first Trump administration, if you don't like it, Fucking leave, because this is America, quite literally inspired by that piece of paper written all those hundreds of years ago that you all praise while it sits in your front pocket, worn out cover, and pristine sheets.

So, yeah, Kendrick Lamar got up there, did what he does, and set the internet on fire just by existing in a place some folks don't think he should be. and in return a bunch of people who say they love freedom spent the next 24 hours proving they don't really want it for anybody but themselves. America, man, what a place. Glory, glory and all that, I reckon. By the way, guys, I'm going to be in Atlanta, Georgia, and Charleston, South Carolina very soon, and you can get those tickets at Corey Ryan Forrester.com. Also, please listen to our podcast putting on airs

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