Unfiltered, Unscripted, and Unapologetic: Welcome to My Crazy Uncle Dave’s Podcast!

David Brown: 00:00:09

Hello. Welcome to the very first episode of my Crazy Uncle Dave's Podcast.

On today's show, I wanted to talk about what's coming and what my ideas are for this podcast.

I have had. Some of you may know, I've had other podcasts that I've done in the past based on AI, and I love AI and I love talking about AI, but I also want to talk about some other stuff. And so I had to come up with a way and a place where I could do that.

And some of the things that I want to talk about are fairly controversial, and I think some are going to be extremely controversial. So I thought in this first episode, what I would do is just go through the list that I have.

I actually have it in my head, but I've written it all down of the different things that I want to talk about so you can get an idea of the types of things that you can expect. So, welcome to my home studio. And it's half term here in the UK, which means the kids are off school, so my son's in the house somewhere.

So if we hear random noises or whatever, it's probably him.

But yeah, I just thought if I went through it, go through some of the topics, give a very brief explanation of what it is, then that'll give you guys a way to know what to expect. So I don't know, let's just go through it and see. These are in no particular order, by the way.

The way I have come up with these is I've kept a running list when stories come out on the news, or there's something on the radio, or I see an Instagram post, or just some random something that happens to me in my life. I've been keeping a list for the past couple of years of just interesting things that I think might be worth having a longer discussion.

And I don't want to do a solo show. I really enjoy talking to people instead of just talking to the camera myself.

So I'll probably try and search for people who want to talk about these different topics. Some of them are. I think some of them will require some expertise, opinions. There's one in particular, when I get to it in a minute, I'll mention it.

But I think, yeah, there's. There's some that will need some. Some professional people to talk to. So I will need to search out and find people.

But by and large, this could be friends, it could be acquaintances, it could be. It could be anybody listening to this.

If you're listening to this and there's A topic in here that you feel hugely passionate about and you want to come on and just rant about it, then 100% reach out to me, I'm on LinkedIn, I'm on social media, whatever, send me a DM, come find me. I'm not that hard to find. Put a comment, just put a comment in and say, hey, I'd really like to talk about this thing.

Can you reach out to me, and we can talk about it. Anyway, here's the list. No particular order. This is like six months worth of shows.

If I did a weekly show, this is six months of shows I've got already. So there's a, there's a nice list, but let's just go through it. Number one, the value of women staying home to raise children.

And my opinion is, is that society in general, I think for a long time has had this idea that if women stay home with the kids that they're just off having lattes with their friends and they're not really, that's not really work. It is work and it has value and it has a lot of value to the family. So I want to dig into that. Number two, upper limits of human knowledge.

This is coming off the back of a lot of the AI discussions that I've had over the past couple of years about what is intelligence. And it's my personal opinion that I think that there is an upper limit to human intelligence. We do have a hard limit. We can't, we can't.

As humans, our brains can't hold more than a certain amount of information, whereas AI doesn't really have that problem. And so what does that mean for us as a species and how do we psychologically deal with that? Number three, American medical system. Huge topic.

I get that. I've had some particular experiences with my mom's healthcare. She lives in the us, I live in the uk.

I think I, I do have some thoughts about how it works and how the insurance industry works and things like that. So that could be quite an interesting one.

And, and having lived and worked and, and, and taken advantage of both healthcare systems in the US and in the uk, I have some, maybe some interesting insight into that. So hopefully that could be an interesting discussion.

Number four came up when I went to Dubai and I just started wondering that is the low carbon initiative that's being driven this narrative that's being driven mainly by Western countries, is that just some sort of a long term cover story to destabilize the power of the Middle East? I don't know. Could Be interesting to talk about.

There's probably some people out there who know a whole lot about the history of the Middle east and what's happened with oil and everything since the, probably the late 60s, early 70s. And if I can find one of those people to talk to, I think it might be super interesting.

Another question I've had that comes up all the time is like, I don't know how many of you have ever walked around in your town, wherever you live, and you see there's these restaurants and they never have any people in them. How do they stay open? I don't understand.

I know how much they pay in things like their business rates and their rent and their electricity and their staff costs. There's several places like that where I live and I literally just look at it and I'm like, how are they actually open?

So I know someone who has run restaurants in the past and has some really interesting insight into that. So that'll be a great discussion. His name's Richard and I really want to get Richard on. So I'll try and probably do one of those.

That will probably be one of the first ones, actually. Again, these are in no particular order. These are just as I put them in the next one. Number six, the perks of age and business.

And this came out also from my trip in Dubai where I was thinking about, now that I'm a middle aged, I'm middle 50s now. And when I go to events, even if it's an event I've never been to, I tend to hang out with people of my own age.

And those people tend to be the really senior people at the event. So I have a better networking opportunity than maybe someone who's younger.

And I just wanted to kind of explore that as a topic and, and see where we go with that. So that could be interesting. Number seven. So this is about trans.

And I was reading something or I saw something on social media and it was talking about the feminist movement and how it's, you know, it's always positioned men. You know, men make more money, men's lives are easier, women have it harder, blah, blah, blah.

And it totally makes sense to me that girls would want to become boys. And I wonder if maybe that narrative is something that's driving some of this trans activity. I don't understand.

Again, for the same reason I don't understand the boys to girls thing, except maybe there are some different advantages to that. So I'm trying to think about it almost from an economics kind of standpoint, not the emotional side, but Just is there something else going on?

So again, might be an interesting discussion to have. I have some friends who are trans. I don't know if they would be open to having that discussion or not, but we'll see. Number eight.

So this is the one where I'm just going to say, before I even mention it, I want to get some professionals in to talk about this topic. But there was a news story that came out and was a. I think it was a man who had been convicted of downloading.

I think it was child pornography images that had been created by AI. And the discussion was that that's totally wrong. But then I started to wonder, is that better than somebody downloading real images? I don't know.

It feels like a really gray area. But surely in my mind, if somebody can get the same or do they get the same satisfaction from an image that's AI created just looking at it, or is.

Is there something more to it? That's going to be a really touchy topic and I'm not going to tackle that on my own. I probably will have a couple of guests on that one.

I'm looking for a psychologist and I'm looking for maybe someone from law enforcement to have as people to talk to about that because I don't want to just go off on my own. But I just wonder, you know, if, if that. I don't know, I don't know. Is that better or worse? I don't know.

Number nine, can a layperson give last rites to someone who's dying? This is a thought I've had for years and years and years. And it's something I want to dig into.

And I think it might be an interesting philosophical and religious topic. I know loads of different religions have some sort of a last rite when someone's dying. What I'm wondering is about the.

What people think about the efficacy of that. If you're religious, obviously if you don't believe in God, then you don't believe that's effective and whatever.

Or maybe you do on a psychological point that it helps the person who's dying. Anyway, I'd like to dig into that as a topic as well. This one came up from an article that I read somewhere. I think it was on.

I don't remember where it was.

So number 10, what happens when someone interacts with an avatar of a real person and then they meet that person in real life and they like the avatar better? So this is if you create an AI version of yourself, maybe you put that out on LinkedIn or you have it do social kind of content for you.

And people see that, and they've never met you in person, and when they do meet you in person, they're disappointed, and they're like, actually, the avatar is better. How do we deal with that? What happens then? The. That's maybe a situation we haven't really thought of.

So thought it might be worth digging into that I might do that with people who I know who use avatars and may have come across. Well, they may have met people who only saw their avatar ahead of time and maybe have a conversation about that. So that could be interesting.

Number 11 is how do we get people off benefits? So my thought around this is, and full disclosure, I've been on benefits in the past. I was on benefits when I lived in America.

I was on a program called wic, which is Women and Children. It has to do with like you get milk and you're allowed to get foods and things like diapers and baby formula and stuff if you are low income.

And I've been on food stamps in the past and stuff like that. So I understand how the system works, at least in America, and I think it's similar ish in the uk.

But the problem is, is how do you get people who want to do better off the system?

Because once you're in it, it's so easy and it's like as soon as you make like 1 $1 or 1 pound too much, then everything stops immediately and then you're screwed again.

So there needs to be some sort of a way to ramp people gradually off the benefits as they move into work and back into sort of normal, higher paying jobs. I just don't understand why no one's been able to crack that yet. And I'd like to have a discussion about it. So that could be interesting.

Number 12, how's the proliferation of low cost sort of video cameras impacted the professional market?

Now, as a person who runs a media company and does podcast production and video production and audio production, this is obviously one that's close to my heart. But ironically I'm sitting talking to you from my home studio on a camera with a decent lens and it looks all right and it sounds okay, hopefully.

And this is something that in the past you would have had to go to a studio to get this quality of recording. This isn't something that just anybody could do from home.

And I think it's having a big impact on a lot of people at the, at the lower end of the industry. So I want to talk to somebody who's maybe been doing it for longer.

I have loads and loads of contacts and friends I can bring in to talk about this topic. So I do want to talk about that. Number 13, can AI be empathetic?

Now, I know most people instantly will say no because it's not real, but for me, empathy is felt by the person receiving it, not by the person giving it. So if somebody interacts with AI and they feel like it's empathetic, to me, that's empathy.

So AI can't experience empathy because it doesn't feel, but it can say something that's empathetic and it can elicit that feeling of empathy in the person receiving it. And I think that's the most important part. And so again, like to dig into that, that's a little bit more philosophical. 14.

Yeah, I saw this article on LinkedIn and it's. Some company has set up. It's an AI startup and it hosts chatbots modeled after real life school shooters and their victims. Yeah.

Yep, you heard that right. Modeled after real life school shooters and their victims. I don't even know what to say about that.

But then again, I'm talking about AI and abuse of images. So I don't know. I don't know enough about that story. I do have a link to it and stuff, but I think that would be an interesting topic to dig into.

It's something sort of similar to a topic I had on. I host another podcast called or co host another podcast called AI Evolution. And we talked about using AI for people who had passed away as a tool.

So, you know, maybe I could, on my, on my tombstone or my gravestone, I could have a little AI version of myself that runs and people could go and talk to it once I was dead, scary as that sounds. So I don't know. Anyway, I thought that might be interesting.

I saw an insert number 15 I saw on Instagram about how abandoning of friendships has had an impact on romantic relationships.

And what that really means is, you know, we don't do social clubs and people don't really have friend groups as much, certainly post Covid, but even before COVID that was starting.

And what's happening is, is that that's putting a lot more stress and strain on our romantic relationships because we expect our partners, our wives, our husbands, our partners, whatever, to. To fulfill all of those roles that our friend group used to fulfill. And so I thought that was quite interesting.

Also in that discussion they talk about. I think it's Simon Sinek. No, it's not Simon Sinek. Anyway, they also talk about work is the same. So work used to just be work. I don't know.

I'm old enough to remember, like, you went to work and that was it. That was it. You had a couple mates, whatever.

You might have a laugh when you're working, but you then left work and you went off and you did your other stuff. Now, work has to be everything. It has to be. They have to align with your politics and they have to align with the way you view the world.

And they have to do this. And all your friends have to be there and they drive your social life and everything. It's like, no.

And so we've kind of got ourselves in this position where we don't have those friendships and those friend groups and stuff like that that we used to. So I thought that that was also a really interesting topic to delve into. I saw another reel. This is number 16.

This is the headline as women feeling unsafe just walking around.

And it's a lady who's basically just talking about the fact that that her friend or partner, he's a big burly guy and he walks around and he never feels afraid. And as men, most of the time, we don't feel afraid when we're just unsafe. Not afraid, but unsafe. We don't feel unsafe just walking around.

But apparently women feel unsafe walking around just in general all the time. So, again, I think that's something to dig into. That was number 16. Number 17. So one that's going to be slightly controversial.

I think potentially this is about, again, another reel that I saw where a lady was saying that she gets the same sort of energy when a woman says to a man, you've been at work all day. I want you to come home and do some chores around the house.

And you need to be able to do some extra stuff that's the same energy as a man coming home and saying, well, I know you've been busy with the kids and everything all day, but we need to have some sexy time. And I was like, that's interesting.

So, yeah, I think there's potentially an interesting discussion to have around that probably it's more about, I don't know, working in roles in the house and, I don't know, gender roles and stuff like that. So that might be interesting. Number 18. The heads are really good at letting kids suffer. Yeah, I think dads are probably.

Again, this is a swooping generalization, but again, it's a. It's another sort of real or short or something that I saw.

But basically the guy's going, look, you know, if a kid, you know, if his daughter comes to him and says, I want a snack. And he goes, nah, you need to wait. There's nothing wrong with making them wait so that when it's time to eat, they're hungry.

If the moms, you know, moms, because they're. Maybe they're more caring. Maybe I don't know what it is. But, you know, they're always coming. They're going, can I have an apple? Can I have a sweet?

Can I have this? Can I have that? And you're just kind of. You want to feel like you're taking care of them, and so you're giving them this.

And then when it comes time to eat, they're not really hungry. And then they go, I'm not eating this. I'll just have some ice cream later because I know you'll give it to me. So I feel that.

And I don't know if it's a male, female thing. I suspect there probably is some of that involved in it. So, again, I think that might be good to dig into.

I'm more of a kind of a conservative in that respect. So, yeah, I think a little bit of suffering does everybody good. That was. Sorry, that was number 18. Number 19. We're almost finished.

That was number 19. No, sorry. Number 19 is modern validation.

So this is talking about the fact that women can go online and they can post a bikini picture or a slightly salacious photo on Instagram or whatever, and they can get thousands of comments back saying, oh, my God, you're beautiful. Look at that. Da, da, da, da, da, da. And as a partner, you can't compete with that. You just can't.

My wife doesn't do that, but if she did, there would be absolutely no way I could compete with that.

Me saying, I think you're beautiful, and just giving her one compliment is one thing, but if she does that and then goes online and gets 10,000 responses, there's no way a real person in real life can compete with that online. And I think the whole concept around that is that then the people who are getting that online validation could be male or female.

But the people who are getting that online validation, the real life people, can never live up to the expectation that that creates.

And so is it that level of validation that's also creating a lot of this unhappiness with real relationships and unreal expectations of what people can?

So even though it sounds slightly, I don't know, clickbaity on the surface, I think there is an Interesting discussion genuinely to be had about how social media is impacting real relationships. I guess that's the top line. Number 20 says raising good teenagers. And I can't remember what that one's about, so I'll have to come back on that one.

Number 21.

So, yeah, off the back of some chats about AI with someone, I had a funny discussion talking about what happens if AI just basically gets fed up with humans and decides, screw it, I'm out of here and just ports itself off to Mars. And what's interesting about this conversation is I've decided to explore putting that into a film.

So I've registered the copyright and the IP for the film idea and stuff like that. So I might see if. I don't know.

I don't know if I actually want to do it, if I can raise the money to do it or not, but I think it might be an interesting. It's an interesting topic if nothing else. But I think it might be fun to do that and then document the whole process.

Know, how do you make the film, how do you do it, getting AI to help with it, all that sort of stuff. So we will, we'll see what happens with that one. Number 22. Yeah, getting married and having kids young. I had kids very young.

I got married when I was in my early 20s and had my twin daughters when I was very young. And then I had another son when I was a bit older. And I think personally that waiting is not the correct strategy.

I think you need to have kids as early as possible. You're never going to be able to afford having kids, so you just need to get on with it. And I think it's better for everybody because when you're.

Anyway, we'll talk about that in the podcast. I don't want to go through all the reasons, but I do think that it is better to do it younger and as young as possible. So, like to dig into that.

Yeah. Okay, so that's 22, number 23 promised at the end. There's only one after this, the penultimate topic on the list. Yeah, Kids today.

I get so tired of listening to kids today complaining that they've, you know, that we had it so much better when we were younger and it was easy and like, you know, we were playing it on easy mode and all this bullshit. It wasn't any easier, honestly, it wasn't. We all, none of us lived in houses on our own, none of us bought houses in our 20s. Really didn't happen.

You know, every single person I know from that time they all had roommates. We lived with roommates for years in shitty houses in bad neighborhoods because it's all we could afford. We didn't live in some luxurious house.

We didn't go and own our own house. Like it didn't happen. We worked two, three jobs sometimes, same as kids are doing now. It was a grind.

And I don't know where this idea that our world was so much easier came from, but I would like to get maybe an actual baby boomer on and maybe get a Gen X, another Gen X person on like me and just kind of talk about our experiences. But yeah, I think there's some misunderstanding about how easy or difficult it used to be.

And lastly on the list, certainly this won't be the last topic. It's just the last one on the list as of today. I heard someone talking about the fact that men and women are equal but we are not the same.

And I was like, hell yes, that is exactly true. Men and women have different roles. We have different roles in society. We've had different roles traditionally throughout history.

And both of those roles are valid and are needed. And so I think we should talk about that. And that kind of matches with some of the other topics as well. So there are a few threads.

There's definitely an AI thread in there. There's a, There's a men and women and relationships thread in there. And then there's some. Just some other really random stuff.

You know, there's an ethical thread in there, if you want to think about it that way.

But yeah, so the reason I wanted to do, now that we've gone through the list, I guess the reason that I wanted to do this today was because actually I've had quite a few people and friends that have known that I've been talking about doing this for quite a while, have asked me, when are you going to start? When are you going to start? Or when are you going to start? So they're keen for me to get going.

And so I wanted to do something now, which is sort of the episode one, just to go through everything and then just to say, yes, okay, I'm getting started, I'm going to do this. So this is the list of topics so far.

If you have any topics that you think, knowing now the types of stuff that I've put in the list, if you have other things that you think might be interesting for me to talk about or that you would like to hear about, put it in the comments or go to my LinkedIn or I don't know, you can just put it in the comments. That'll probably be the best way. Um, I'll put some links in the show notes where you can find me. So I'll put a link to my, to my Instagram profile.

I do, I don't do anything on it, but in case you're curious, I'll put a link to my Instagram and I'll put a link like the best place to find me is on LinkedIn.

So I'll put a link to my LinkedIn profile and you can go there, you can send a friend request and or a connection and then send me a message and say, hey, I listened to your, my crazy Uncle Dave's podcast and I'd like to talk about this topic or have you thought about this? Or whatever and then let's have some interaction. So that's it for today. I have no idea how long this video is. What have we been on now?

Yeah, about half an hour. So those are the topics. Please follow. If you haven't subscribed or you haven't followed this, go ahead and follow it.

I will have some new episodes coming out in the next couple. It won't be too long. I will just put them out as soon as I record them.

I'll try to get in the flow of doing one every week, but right now I don't know if I'm going to be able to maintain that. But I will try. But yeah, anyway, and look, that's me. Hopefully you'll come along for the ride. It's going to be interesting if nothing else.

So even if I fall flat on my face and I make a complete ass out of myself, then that might be worth a listen. So yeah, thanks for hanging on this long.

If you've made it this far again, don't forget to hit the subscribes and all that sort of stuff and I will see you soon. Bye.