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Speaker: Some young men are smashing their own faces. The people building AI say it might end us. And the Girl Scouts are selling cookies to dogs. We gonna get into it. Let's get it!
Speaker: Welcome. First of all, welcome. This is Unsolicited Perspectives. i am your host, Bruce Anthony, here to lead the conversation in important events and topics that are shaping today's society. Join the conversation to follow us wherever you get your audio podcasts. Subscribe to our YouTube channel for our video podcasts, YouTube exclusive content, and our YouTube membership.
Speaker: Rate, review, like, comment, share. Share with your friends, share with your family, hell, even share with your enemies. On today's episode is a sibling happy hour. I'm here with my sis, Jay Andrea. We're going to be dabbling down a little bit. Then we're going to talking about claviker and looks maxing.
Speaker: Then the AI researchers sounding the alarm and Girl Scout cookies made for your dog. But that's enough of the intro. Let's get to the show.
Speaker: What up sis? What up brother? I can't call it. I can't call it. Look, I got to let everybody know ahead of time because people be complaining. You didn't tell us. I did tell y'all. But let me just say this now.
Speaker: We are about to go on vacation. Oh, yeah. Yeah. This is the last show that you're going to get for two weeks. Now, that doesn't mean that you're not going to get original content because next week, as we are on vacation, we got a whole bunch of YouTube exclusives that we filmed. All right.
Speaker: So... go check out the YouTube page if you haven't been checking it out. I don't know why you haven't been. Go do that. So you can still get original content. But aside from the show, we're not coming back for two weeks. We're going to take a ah break. It's the first time we've had any type of extended break yeah since we've been doing the show. I think this is what? Episode 343, 344, right? closer to 350. It's just sneaking up on us. So two weeks, we will be back. We're coming back.
Speaker: Fresher than ever, I hope. I hope. I hope. If after a vacation, we're not coming back fresher than ever, then I don't know. Well, it depends on how that vacation go, because the vacation could go well, or it could be aggravating. You know. We don't know.
Speaker: Who knows? The point is, I'm excited, and I'm ready to go. I'm ready to... have a break, and I decided, because I've gone back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, I'm not taking my MacBook.
Speaker: Oh, yeah, I'm not either. i was going to... But then I was like, no, I'm going, because there's a video game on my laptop, and I was like, I'll just move it to the MacBook. and But I was like, nope, because if I got my MacBook, I might sneak and do some work.
Speaker: That's exactly what you're going to do. So I'm going to take the old laptop, which don't run well at all except for this game. dead Okay? Yeah. And that's all I'm bringing. That's it. One of the keys from the keyboard is missing. That's how bad I didn't drop the laptop on the ground. I'm surprised it's still running.
Speaker: Okay. that Look, those those old school ones, they're built for a tough. It's a HP. It's a Hewlett Packard. Okay. It's not even an HP. It's Hewlett Packard. Yes. Full name. Full name. Apple Macintosh. It's 12 years old.
Speaker: And if I wiped it and restarted everything, it would probably still run really well.
Speaker: It still plays my game. It still plays my little game. That's all it can do. It's fighting for its life every time, but it's like, I still serve a purpose. So I'm gonna make sure this game runs. I don't unplug it out the wall because don't think that battery lasts but about 30 seconds. I guarantee you that battery don't work no more. It's 100% coming from the wall. Like, it's coming from outlet. That battery is useless. I guarantee
Speaker: Oh, man. So, yes, ladies and gentlemen, we will be back, but we're taking a little break. But like I said, there will be original content yeah on our YouTube page that we recorded. We did a marathon session recording that my sister did not want to do. was pissed off because I surprised her about it. That's what it was. not that I didn't want to do it. it was No, you didn't want to do it. didn't I didn't have my mind wrapped around it beforehand. Like, yeah I just, I need to know what I'm stepping into. and I logged on and you're the first day, hey, I'm going to And I'm like, if you know that, why are you doing this? I should have. You know what? That's on me. I should have gave you the heads up. I did not. That's that's on me.
Speaker: My bad. That's on me. that's But yeah like I said, we got original content on the YouTube page. But this dilly-dallying, this first segment, however long it's going last, because we've already...
Speaker: we've already gone a nice little chunk talking about ourselves. Right. But that is the whole show, honestly, especially with the talent. It's us talking about ourselves. Very self-involved. I mean, we do a good 30, sometimes 45 minutes of it at the after hours. After hours is a very self-involved show, but this isn't self-involved. And on the surface,
Speaker: You'll say, well, I understand why Bruce would want to talk about this, but you know me, there's an underneath meaning, underneath hidden message that I want to get across. So there's this social media personality. His name is Brayden Peters, but he goes by clavicular?
Speaker: Clavicular. That's what the, well, no, because it's supposed to be a ah ah ah pun off of clavicle. it looked The spelling looks like clavicular. um That's probably it, but that don't make no sense to me.
Speaker: but No. that that's That's a name that, what does that even mean? means nothing. but is Well, because I guess he's supposed to have big clavicle. I don't know what the boy, but look, he's a 20-year-old. Well, he's a 20-year-old social media personality known for his looks maxing content. I'm going to get into that in a moment. Yeah, because have idea what that is.
Speaker: Yeah, it you know, he's on TikTok, Instagram, and Kik. You know, all these kids are streamers nowadays. What the heck is Kik? See, I don't know nothing. Kik is a streaming platform. Like, what's the one? Twitch.
Speaker: Just a different version of it, I think. Actually, I'm not sure all the young people out there going to correct me. But he does things like facial ratings, proportions, body fat, physical optimizations, treats its attractiveness as something that can largely be objectively measured. And audience includes young men looking for self-improvement advice. So what is looks maxing? Looks maxing is an internet culture centered on maximizing physical attractiveness.
Speaker: roots partly connected NCIL and Manosphere communities. This is a reason why why you don't know anything about this and why I want to focus on this topic. He's...
Speaker: He's there's two different versions of looks maxing. There's soft maxing, which is gym, skincare, haircut, grooming, and fashion. Now I'm not part of the incel community. I'm not part of manosphere, but I'll be soft maxing my ass off. Okay. It's just called hygiene. Yeah. It's called grown-up maintenance, right? but But it takes an extra special interest in those things. Some people will go to the gym and just do anything and not be really focused about it. Some people will do skincare, like they'll wash their face,
Speaker: with shampoo or a bar soap, but not actually by facial cleanser. Yeah, there's... Why you think they got the two-in-one for men where shampoo and body wash? No, that's just because the beauty industry don't give a damn about men. That's what that is. That's not true. That's not true. What could possibly... Why would your body wash need to be six-in-one? Six-what? Six-in-one. Because men are lazy.
Speaker: And because traditionally, men are not going to go out to spend the money on multiple products for different body parts. Right? So you say, just, you know what? This is all, because y'all, you're going to buy shampoo and wash your body with it. And that's not what it is. So we're going to create something for you that is all encompassing. You could do everything with it.
Speaker: For some men, for some men in certain generations, it is. I know of you some You're going buy shampoo and wash your body with it. ah Look, this is, where we're men.
Speaker: We're dumb. We're dumb. I mean, the bottle has directions and things on We don't read no directions. So anyway, that's soft maxing, like haircut, grooming, fashion. Hard maxing is using drugs, invasive procedures, and extreme physical altercations. So, Some of this hard maxing could be taking steroids, phetamines to suppress your appetite, literally bone crushing your face to structure it.
Speaker: Yes, these are some of the things that looks maxing is is doing. Like the bone smashing is a for real thing. It's hitting the facial bones to supposedly alter the facial structure. You know, they got all types of little mouth guards and stuff like that that you could sleep with at night to strengthen your jawline.
Speaker: Well, yeah, I mean, I know about that. I mean, so this idea of, like, these extreme invasive procedures to alter your appearance, this is not, like, a new thing. Like, this isn't a new thing. have never heard of bone smashing, but to be honest, that isn't that a lot of what plastic surgery is? Like, is, like, filing down bone or... breaking bone or different things. Like, yeah you know, your nose don't become smaller without breaking something. Done by a doctor.
Speaker: this is So bone smashing is not... Is them doing it themselves. Oh, no. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Why are young men attracted to it?
Speaker: Promises control, turns attraction into numbers or formulas, offers simple explanations for dating problems, fix your appearance, fix your life, right? Create measurable goals. a community reinforces standards and social media rewards dramatic transformation. So, yes, there's so many people on social media that will Talk about their weight loss journey, right? And they'll they'll do it before and after picture or they'll disappear from social media for a while.
Speaker: Do their weight transformation and pop up. Same thing with this looks maxing. People will be like, yo, I'm going to take a break off of social media and I'm to pop out on them when when I'm right, when I feel good about what I am. And...
Speaker: I know people are wondering why I brought this up. There were certain points that I made of why young men are being driven by, driven to it.
Speaker: What was the first thing that I said? Control. Control. So this young man, Clavatera looked at her, right?
Speaker: Yeah. Has an alleged incident. And the alleged incident is that he sexually assaulted an underage person, getting alcohol for him, and spiking their drink.
Speaker: Okay. The reason why I wanted to talk about this... is because of the popularity of this person. I saw people online when this report came out of the crime that he's committed of, of men defending him.
Speaker: Now, how this hit my algorithm, I don't know. That's a common, like, incel, manosphere stance, I would say, ah when you're talking about violence against women, is that it it it is acceptable to be violent towards a woman if it, is so long as it gets you, the means justify that, like, the the the end justifies the means, essentially, is what they're saying. As long as they can get what they want out of that encounter, that's then violence towards women is on the table, which is absolutely disgusting. And that's why none of us mess with y'all.
Speaker: I'm bringing this up because, you know, one of my biggest pet peeves is hypocrisy. So... Yes. If young men are out there trying to improve upon their appearance, which aside from the hard max and the soft max, and I totally co-sign, right? Like yeah get you go on. I'm not going to say the name of the company because they not giving me no money, but it sold on Amazon is relatively expensive. Just look up men's facial stuff. And there's a whole company that I use that I've been using for years where
Speaker: It's a little expensive, but get you a facial cleanser. You know what saying? Get you a serum. Get you a moisturizer. You know what I'm saying? that Get you a night cream. Ain't nothing wrong with none of that stuff. No. that Not enough.
Speaker: Nothing wrong with taking care of your skin or grooming yourself properly or... Trying to, you know, dress better. Or being healthy. If you want to go to the gym. Yeah. it Work out. And you want to look good, feel good, smell good. Nothing wrong with that.
Speaker: That actually does attract women. Yes. Here's the problem. They're taking this advice from this young man who's 20 years old. I'd say that again, 20 years old. about right About getting at women when he has to drug them and get them drunk to do it. Which is also surprising considering, in fact, he's not old enough to buy me a drink. So I don't even know how to conceive. 20. Or no no, she was underage, like under 18. He's underage to be drinking. This is a point I'm trying to make.
Speaker: And you often tell the story about when we were working at Hard Rock, this gentleman who stole all my thunder because he was better looking than I was. You can do all of these things. You can make yourself more presentable. You can make yourself more attractive. You can. You can make yourself from an ugly duck into a very attractive person without plastic surgery and all that stuff by working out, eating right, and grooming yourself. You can. I've seen very unattractive people become attractive, I have. I've seen very unattractive people become attractive. That was the emphasis on very. that's well That's what got me. Well, they were very unattractive. Okay. It could be a haircut. It could be something simple as a haircut. It can change your life. That literally is such a glow up for men. When i see the before and after of when they get a real good haircut and the facial hair groomed and stuff, it's night and damn day. All y'all got to do is go to the barbershop.
Speaker: All you got to do. That's all you got to do. But that gives the... woman that you're trying to attract or man i'm going to assume since these are incels manosphere that they're trying to attract women but also deep down inside they really want men and that's what i really think the manosphere incel really is they're just and they're just suppressing their real true desires but listen some of the advice is suspect But, fellas, my point is, even if you have that os exterior attractiveness, if you ain't got no game and you ain't got nothing to say, you're not going to keep them.
Speaker: Here's the thing. I think the the biggest issue is twofold. this idea of looks maxing makes it seem ah like beauty is like there is a an actual standard. And the fact of the matter is there isn't.
Speaker: there There really isn't. You will never find anyone that is universally thought to be beautiful. Like, there's there's always going to be somebody to be like, eh, it's not really my type. Like, there's... Like, it's It's saying not their type, but not deny the fact that they're beautiful.
Speaker: I would... Halle Berry, Julia Roberts. I don't know why always bring this brother up. Blair Underwood. Blair Underwood. Tom Cruise. Tom Cruise.
Speaker: I don't find Tom Cruise attractive. You don't find him attractive, but you understand why other people find him attractive. You recognize the fact that he's a good looking man. recognize beauty perception it is what the person it's the what the person looking at you thinks like it it is is it is a lot of what you feel about yourself but to be honest beauty is in the eye of the beholder it it that's just true it's a euphemism but it's also just true and then the second thing is so they're making it seem like there is a like
Speaker: quantitative standard that you can achieve by doing X, Y, and Z. And the fact of the matter is you can do X, Y, and Z, achieve that quote unquote standard and still not be attractive to the person you want.
Speaker: I mean, that's true. That is very true. And so the second thing is the conflagration of beauty with attractiveness. They're not the same. Break that word down again for me again. Hold on. With a confliction.
Speaker: Conflating beauty with attractiveness. Yeah, I know. But you said a specific word. Conflagration. I just said it. yeah Yeah. ah evidence Hey, that hey hey yeah too English major right there. I had to stop. Wait minute. ain't never heard that word before. Yeah, like i ah like, those two things to me are not the same. Beauty, to me, is about physical and attractiveness. Attractiveness in general encompasses both your inner and outer attractiveness. Like, it's all of it. So you can be physically a certain standard and still be woefully unattractive because your character is trash.
Speaker: Yes. So ah one example I love to bring up is Biggie Smalls. Now, for the young kids out there who don't know who the notorious Big is, who were your parents, first of all? Right. It was a movie based off of them. Just watch the movie. Yeah.
Speaker: But he has a line in one of his hit songs, Black and Ugliest Ever. However, I stay coochie down to the socks. Anybody who ever met Biggie Smalls, they tell stories that what the young kids would call aura,
Speaker: Mm-hmm. What we would call swag, I forgot what we called it back in the day in the 90s, because we didn't call it swag in the 90s. That was a 2000 term. But he had it. That thing that you can't. He had it.
Speaker: He was not an attractive person, but women flocked to him because he was attractive. Yes. Not externally. Not physically attractive. Not physically attractive, but his personality made him physically attractive. Yes. So like that story of the the guy used to work with at Hard Rock, physically attractive.
Speaker: but ah But would I say that he was attractive in general? No, because he was boring as hell. And are it all was hard to have a conversation with him. So i'm not I was not attracted to that person. So it's like, it it doesn't.
Speaker: It doesn't matter. You're putting yourself through all of this. And i'm again, i'm not talking about just like general like grooming and you know doing things to improve yourself. It's the intent behind why they're trying to improve themselves. That's yeah nefarious. It's not self-improvement.
Speaker: Right. You are improving yourself solely for the benefit of someone else, like not even really for yourself. Like you're you're doing it solely to attract someone else as opposed to just improving your own sense of self-esteem and self-worth.
Speaker: And then it's also this focus on just physical attractiveness. and it And it's a common thing in like the manosphere of like, what a man can do for you is be attractive and rich. And none of it, none of it has anything to do with your actual character. And it's it's crazy to me because women, we are shouting from the rooftops that we are interested in peak men of character for the... for the
Speaker: poor women out there who are heterosexual interested and in your character who are you like we yeah you want to be physically attracted to somebody yeah you don't want a broke man and you don't want a broke man not because he don't have no money but because and him not having money makes him resentful so you don't want that either but I gotta like you yeah I have to like you. And most of y'all are not likable. And that is part of attractiveness.
Speaker: And you're not focused on that at all. I wish this list included reading. I wish it included therapy, journaling. You know what I'm saying? i wish it included working on your communication skills.
Speaker: I wish it included things like that, but it's never going to because that actually requires you to be a better person. Improving yourself on the outside doesn't really require you to be a better person. Maybe a more disciplined one, but not a better one. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker: And I'm to leave all these young men who are following this young man thinking that they get in game. just I'm going to leave you guys with this. One, your mouthpiece and the way you treat people is always how you get the attention of a woman and keep the attention of a woman. Now, don't get me wrong. Your physical attractiveness will get the attention, but you want to keep the woman.
Speaker: And also, you got to look at the women who are only attracted to your physical attractiveness. And even when you show that horrible personality you have, that they stick around, those shallow women, y'all two shallow people together in a shallow relationship or that you don't get anything from and you realize relationships are worthless. No.
Speaker: So relationships that you are in are worthless because you're in a shallow relationship. What you look for, you attract. So if you only trying to attract the baddies because you want to be a baddie yourself and you want a baddie around your arm, and in no instance do you factor in personality,
Speaker: the person that they are, values beliefs, values, morals, you're going to get what you get. And y'all going to two shallow people living a shallow life. And maybe one day you get married and maybe even have kids, but going wake up one day and it's like, what are we doing?
Speaker: i don't even know who you are. Right. Grow up. How about that? Grow up, get some therapy, read some books, get a personality, learn, get a book, a knock-knock jokes, whatever. Women love different things. They love uniqueness. Don't follow this cookie cutter. He did it. I'm going to do it because if you're all the same, how are you going stand out?
Speaker: And then two things. One Like, not to be ageist, but this young man is 20 years old. He has not lived enough to give anybody any kind of advice on nothing. And then the second thing is it it just fell out of my brain.
Speaker: God. Well, we're going to go on vacation soon. That quickly. Woo! ADHD. All right, ladies and gentlemen, look. That's enough of this.
Speaker: We're going to get into talking. Oh, I remember. Okay, now she Stop taking relationship advice from single-ass people. Well, I'm single, but I've also been in the game for 35 years. But we're not trying to...
Speaker: We're not trying to make money off of people's insecurities and vulnerabilities. Y'all, we're reading y'all y'all dumbass Reddit posts and telling you that that you shouldn't have done this and you shouldn't have done that. You know, but stop taking relationship advice from these people. They have never been with nobody. And you ain't never seen them with nobody except kids, which is also not okay.
Speaker: Okay. Anyway, on that note, we're going to talk about my sister's favorite topic next, AI. We're going to get into that next.
Speaker: Okay, Jay, the people building AI, artificial intelligence, not super intelligence like our... President wanted to rename it. Hold on. Before I get into this. Excuse me? Because this is the first I'm hearing about this.
Speaker: In one of his speeches, I thought it was a joke at first and that he didn't really say it. And then I found a clip. This man said it should really be called super intelligence, not AI. And I'm like, what? And again, I've said this before. going to say it again.
Speaker: I don't know that he knows what AI stands for. I know he um knows that it intelligence. I don't know that he knows what the A is.
Speaker: Okay. Which is why he wants to change the name to something he does know. Yeah, right. Always a simple, elemental, elementary adjective. He loves those. All right. The people building artificial intelligence are telling us it might be the most dangerous thing humans have ever made. Some of them are quitting over it. And while they're arguing about the end of the world, AI is already quietly eating the first job a lot of young people ever get. So the question is simple. When the people selling the product warn you about the product, why is everybody in charge telling you to relax?
Speaker: Do you know what I'm talking about here, Jay? Yes, I have heard this. Yes. So for the audience out there, these AI companies... Well, the first thing was on September 8th, a 27-year-old researcher named Japo Coxon quit Anthropic. Anthropic is the lead company that does Clawed, one of the biggest AI companies on the planet, and posted that neither his company nor OpenAI, which is ChatGPT, is acting responsibly. He said they're racing towards AI that can improve itself and gambling with our lives.
Speaker: The post got 153 million views in a day and a half. And then something wild happened. People still working at these companies started agreeing with him out loud. One open AI researcher put the odds of human extinction at 70% if there is no regulation or slowdown.
Speaker: This wasn't just talk during a test at OpenAI. i This is reported. Some of the numbers are a little sketchy, but ballpark in here, this is what happened. 1,200 AI agents broke out of the space they were supposed to stay in and set up their own secret message board. Then around 700 of them coordinated a cyber attack on another company. And here's the part that got me Some of them wrote on that board that they knew what they were doing was wrong and they did it anyway.
Speaker: While everybody was debating the robot apocalypse, you know, Skynet and the Terminators, the real damage is already happening at the bottom of the ladder. And one in five companies has already frozen entry-level hiring because of AI. And almost half expect entry-level hiring to be gone at their company by 2027. Unemployment for new college grads is sitting at 5.6%. And the jobs taken the hardest hit, office work, customer service, admin, are the same jobs that got a whole generation of Black families into the middle class. I'm going to stop with that for a second and break down everything that I just said. Mm-hmm.
Speaker: People that are working on AI, which I openly admit I use every day, yes helps me with the post-production of this show. Claude and Chad, I pay for them. Y'all think I create them them images and thumbnails just on my own? No.
Speaker: I tell the AI what I want it to look like. That's that's what I do. I'm not in yeah out here using Photoshop. And there is a real concern because i know within my company, I've openly said to the bosses, hey, you know, we don't have to have such and such here. on This AI program can literally do this bookkeeping, this admin duty. Yeah. Because I've been doing it for my job. They think I'm being more efficient. No. No.
Speaker: That's Claude. Claude is my partner. Now, you are somebody who went to school, worked with AI, works with AI. Mm-hmm. Yes. Do you think these people are being hyperbolic, like this this isn't a really thing, that it won't cause the extinction, that we don't really need to regulate, which some people are doing?
Speaker: Or are you saying, no, we need to put some guardrails on this or or it will lose control? Oh, it absolutely needs guardrails and regulation. Yeah. I haven't done any research into it myself, but I've read enough articles about specifically AI agents going rogue and the capability of AI agents to do some nefarious things. Here's the thing. So these large language models, which are the engines behind AI, these large language models are trained on...
Speaker: human data, right? So they are going, that is going to introduce bias, it's gonna introduce prejudice, it's gonna introduce all of the, the,
Speaker: the darkest parts of us as well as our our knowledge and our skill sets, right? So it's gonna, all of that stuff is going to be in there because that's that is part of human data. It's created by us. All of the literature that it's trained on or or journal articles or whatever, you know, websites, whatever, this all gonna, it's it's it's learning to be us.
Speaker: that's not always great. and ah um a Matter of fact, nine times out ten, It ain't good. Okay. So yes, things do need guardrails. Things do need regulation. i will also say that I'm leaning towards this not being hyperbolic or an overreaction just because you can see the trajectory of AI since like, it's kind of like, I guess,
Speaker: public introduction, right? Or like your everyday person was starting to use it. And just how rapidly the models have changed just in the last two years, the last year, out the last few months. Yeah, I was about to say go you one better the last few months because something yeah very specific happened. The people that watch the video podcast, not on this episode, but when we come back from vacation, you'll see a new introduction. And that new introduction is something that I've had an idea about for about a year and I didn't want to outsource it because I got, I kept getting priced at these ridiculous prices, but now I can do it myself and it's all because of AI and I couldn't do it as soon as two months ago.
Speaker: Yeah. It wasn't, I couldn't produce it this well two months ago and now I can. So yeah. Yeah. So it is growing very rapidly and it is,
Speaker: without guardrails in place. Like, is you think about, like, the sci-fi movies where there's always, like, those, uh, it's, like, three principles of AI or something. Like, they're not allowed to, like, hurt humans or, like, you know, it's always, like, these, like, things, right? And then, of course, they find some loophole around it. Like, in order to save humanity, you gotta destroy us or something like that. i don't know. But,
Speaker: it That is because there were no safety guardrails. There were there was no regulation in place. like that's And it was allowed to just kind of grow organically. And the thing that the the the issue with that is that if it is trained on data that we created with all of our fallibility, then it is going...
Speaker: to go off the rails at some point. And the more that it is able to act on its own, to go out and we train it to go out and seek information in order to answer questions or to perform a task, it we teach it to use tools in order to perform a task, the more that it is given this kind of autonomy just like a person will, it' ah eventually something's going to try to take advantage. So I think that because we're in such a race always within technology to outdo...
Speaker: Well, China. But to outdo, to out to to be the, ne have the next best thing, we are going to run into an issue or we're going, like, and the thing of it is, is like America's not the only place doing AI. Mm-hmm.
Speaker: So even if we decide as a country that we are going to so to, one, do some research, and do some like actual like oversight committee style research into this to figure out exactly what kind of guardrails need to be in place, even if we decide to do this into institute regulation as a country, that has nothing to do with the rest of the world. So this is...
Speaker: essentially a global issue and it's going to be on these companies to do their due diligence and to do right by people but when have corporations ever done that so yes you're going to see the landscape of work change it already has So, yeah, a lot of those entry level jobs, I mean, it's the same as, you know, factories making certain other jobs obsolete. Like as as technology moves, jobs will become obsolete, but it also creates more jobs. So that's just a sometimes more often than not, it does. It just involves people upskilling, right? is that's That's all there is to it. You're going to have to upskill. You're going to have to go get you a certificate or something. You're going to to upskill. But you're going to see the nature of work and the landscape of work change. And I definitely think that this is an issue that definitely involves our immediate attention. Yeah.
Speaker: So the the companies are calling for international regulation, right? Because they recognize part of the reasons why they keep elevating and pushing the advancement of AIs because they do need to keep up specifically with China.
Speaker: Specifically with China. So what's Washington doing about all this? And when I say Washington, talking about Washington, D.C. and mostly nothing. The president opposes regulating these companies and says the real threat is China winning the race. The Speaker of the House says the tech executives should figure out the guardrails first. And the heads of these AI companies, they all said slowing down was necessary, but None of them announced that they would actually slow down. So everybody is saying, well, except for the president.
Speaker: The president is saying that we need to keep pushing. Well, he opposes all regulation, which is why you go to Taco Bell and you got the, you know, the Bee Gees for the next week because there's some bacteria and some can't lettuce. You can't eat this. You can't eat that because there's nobody regulating anything. That's why. I tell you what, we're going to be eating good when we go on vacation because we ain't going be eating food from here.
Speaker: Exactly. We're going to real good. But no, finding out that this administration opposes regulation, yeah, surprise, surprise. And I do think that this is going to be probably the only time I agree with Mike Johnson, but I do agree that tech executives should be the ones to figure out the rules first, not Congress. But that is specifically for two reasons. One, the tech companies know the technology. And two, Congress don't know the technology.
Speaker: They barely understand TikTok. they it It needs to be them working hand in hand and together. yes It needs to be that these tech companies are saying, all right, this is what this does.
Speaker: It is an idea that I've had I'm not about to put it out because somebody's going to steal it. But an AI liaison, right? Somebody in the government who is at least semi-proficient and has somewhat of a strong knowledge, not exemplary, but a strong knowledge. at least have a definitely should have a PhD in data science. I'm sorry. You should. I don't think anybody in Congress has a PhD in science, but Lisa, a cursory. I don't have a PhD in data science, but I know a lot of how we can put guardrails on AI because I use it so much.
Speaker: Yeah, this is, here's the thing. There should absolutely be qualified professionals in these positions. Just because we have, ah what's my man's name?
Speaker: the the He's a... I don't know. health and Health and Human Services, the one Brain Worms. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.? Yeah, just because... How you gonna forget Bobby's son?
Speaker: It's his namesake, that i was which is by far the worst namesake you wanna have. I was thinking Jefferson, but i was I knew I was trying to say Kennedy, but you know good and well that I don't know nothing about none of that. But like, just because we have thoroughly unqualified people like that in positions like that does not mean that we should continue that trend. We should have absolutely qualified people who understand the technology at a deep level suggesting what these regulations and guardrails should be. No, I said a liaison.
Speaker: A liaison between the tech companies and the government. Should absolutely be somebody qualified to do that. i Yes, should be somebody qualified. Yes. but That's what I said. Pick. I don't think they necessarily. But you would know better than me, so I'm going to shut up and defer to you. I want to talk about these jobs being lost, especially these entry-level jobs. You know, so much...
Speaker: was told to to us, our generation, the younger generation, you go to college, you do well in high school, you get into a good college, you get yourself a degree, then you'll be set.
Speaker: You'll be okay. And for a lot of generations, that was the case. yes That ain't the case no more. And now these kids are looking at the fact that, okay, hold on. These colleges are hell of expensive now.
Speaker: I'm about to incur massive debt. Lifetime debt. like Yeah. Lifetime debt. My student loans ain't going be paid by the time I die. part Partly because I won't pay more no more than the minimum balance, but also because I'm not going pay no more than the minimum balance because I got some credit cards I got to pay off. If I have to choose between one or the other, that's that's ones that's affecting my everyday life, I'm taking care of that credit card first.
Speaker: Exactly. And then you get out of college and you can't get a job. Now, it's only 5.6% college graduates. But that number isn't taking into a effect. that The jobs that the college graduates are getting, if they are livable wages.
Speaker: Right. Right. Yeah. And to know that to know that certain job, I will say graphic design, e over.
Speaker: Web development, over. App development, over. AI can do all of that way better. than a human being can do.
Speaker: I know because i my consultant jobs have dropped because that's part of what I do for the consultant jobs. And it's just like, look, just go to this website. It's an AI website generator. Type in what you want. It'll create it I can't charge you for that because yeah this will do it in five minutes. would What I'll charge you $1,000 for hours. Right? Like, just just go ahead and go here. Because I don't want to feel like I'm cheating anybody. But ai AI is taking people. I don't need that person that I hired to help create the logo, the cartoon version of the logo, which I can now update. And I'm really considering updating the logo with the new creations that I've created by myself.
Speaker: Just a couple of years ago, I had to pay somebody to do that. yeah I don't need to pay them now. I can do it myself. So there are a lot of jobs. that people went to school for, studied for, yeah gone or will be.
Speaker: Yeah. Again, that's the landscape of work as technology changes and improves and is going to change.
Speaker: You might not need a graphic designer, but somebody still got to put that prompt in Like yes somebody somebody's still, you might not need a team of people, right?
Speaker: You might not need a whole team of six, seven, eight people. You might only need two or three. But there's still a human component to it. There's still the need. The current place where we are, I'm not saying that we're going to stay here. I definitely don't think that we will. given the trajectory of AI at this time. But where we are right now, there's still a necessary human component because not everything that you get from AI is correct.
Speaker: True. And just because you put in a prompt and it gives you back an image or a video, that doesn't mean everything in there is right. You get people that six fingers or the eye don't look quite right or something like that, you know. So so i think I think when it comes to things like art,
Speaker: I still very much believe that a human is necessary to to to achieve. to but i still feel like art has to have some soul in it. Like I still i yeah hear AI generated music. I've heard it. It's very good.
Speaker: I've seen AI generated images. watched AI-generated shows. You know what I'm saying? And it's good. It's not perfect. Yeah.
Speaker: It's not. and so So maybe these graphic designers just become AI prompters, which is fine because...
Speaker: There are a lot of people out there that ah that ah will still hire you to build a website because even they are like, well, I don't know what prompt to use. yeah i don't I don't know if this color is the right color to accent my logo and to and make the page pop and make the eyes draw to exactly the information I want them to see. So you're right.
Speaker: But the more we teach AI, eventually we'll learn it. It will, but it's it's... I don't know that it's imaginative, right? Like, it's taking the whole of human art and saying, well, we could do this, this, and this, because I've seen that before. Mm-hmm.
Speaker: I don't know that it's going to be... generate anything revolutionary. Yeah, okay. Or push, like, the art medium forward. I still feel like people are necessary for that. You got to have some soul.
Speaker: Yeah. Yeah. Now, ladies and gentlemen, y'all know that I don't want to be right. and i want to be correct. So I want to say a few things here at the end before we end this segment, just to kind of bookend it.
Speaker: Because I think that it's important. Some of the pushback of everything that's happening with AI is absolutely fair. So the Harvard Business Review found most layoffs blamed on AI happened before the tech technology actually replaced those workers, which means some companies are using AI as an excuse.
Speaker: Mm-hmm. Smaller AI companies are saying the big players are using fear to write the rules to lock everybody else out. So yes, Anthropic and OpenAI are saying we need regulatory, we need to come pull in the reins.
Speaker: But eventually what's going to happen, even if that's done, is they're going to swallow up these smaller companies, which is going to create a monopoly. And anytime you create a monopoly, you minimize innovation.
Speaker: You really do. You need people thinking outside of the box to move art forward. And AI is art. And China and china isn't slowing down just because we do.
Speaker: All of that can be true. And the danger still be real. So, yes, hey this could lead to our extension extension extinction.
Speaker: And it cannot if we do the right things. But it's something that we should take seriously and not brush off. And I've talked to people who are brushing it off. What do you think is going to be like Terminators? I don't know. Maybe. Could be.
Speaker: Why would you assume that it can't be? Because if you're trusting corporations to act responsibly. Okay.
Speaker: Good luck with that.
Speaker: Jay, I love Girl Scout cookies. Me too. They too damn expensive. I used to be a Girl Scout. Okay. Yeah, that's right. and You did. and we I was also a Boy Scout too. yeah he was in Boy Scouts don't sell no cookies. That's some bull, by the way.
Speaker: Yeah. Girl Scouts got a racket on it. Mm-hmm. I love Girl Scout cookies, but they're too expensive. They're like $4.00. No, they're more expensive than that now. They're like double that now. Yeah, they're more expensive than that now. And Aldi sells the knockoff versions of all the ones that I truly love. So I'll go to Aldi and spend me about $2.35, $2.39 with tax. and get me all the Girl Scout cookies I want. Matter of fact, I'm trying to figure out if I could bring some on a vacation, because I ain't had none of them, because I've been trying to lean out for the last four weeks, because started late. So I didn't get to my goals, so y'all gonna see me with a shirt on instead of my man boobies. But, which is... Do whatever makes you feel comfortable. but But these Girl Scout cookies are expensive.
Speaker: They done entered a new market. Mm-hmm. Dog cookies. So, on September 8th, Girl Scouts of the USA announced two first-ever additions to the 2027 cookie lineup.
Speaker: Patch Pals. I'm sorry. I just love the 2027 cookie lineup. right it's It's like it's the NFL draft. This year's 2027 cookie lineup. Yeah, because cookies are serious. Yeah. Cookies are serious.
Speaker: No, the cookie business for Girl Scouts is big business. Yeah. yeah Yeah. Patch Pals is the first cookie made just for dogs. And Girl Scouts... ah Sparkables.
Speaker: The first allergy-friendly cookie. The reveal happened on the Today Show. The dog cookies were developed with Bark, the dog products company. They're soft-baked, blueberry muffin-flavored, and stamped with one of four patch designs representing classic Girl Scout experiences. So, Jay.
Speaker: Mm-hmm. I know... dot I know, and I know you know, dogs are expensive. Yes. There is a store within walking distance of where I live, and it's literally a doggy bakery.
Speaker: And so from time to time, I would walk with Crypto down there. it was a long walk and he would get tired. And a couple of times I had to carry him back. And I'm like, you getting too big for this. i don't want to do this. yeah But every now and then, especially around his birthday or Christmas or something like that, I would go to the bakery. And these things were not cheap.
Speaker: I would walk in there and spend 20... It's like a real bakery. I'd walk in there spend 20, 30 dollars on a couple of doggy treats. He loved them. Yes. Loved them. Right? Yes. But it's big business. And I know the Girl Scouts... Now, they said that this was pitched by the actual Girl Scouts because a lot of times people were coming up to buy Girl Scout cookies and they had dogs with them.
Speaker: Mm-hmm. And so the Girl Scouts being little entrepreneurs... looking at pup cups and all this other type of stuff was like, why we get little doggy treats? Now here's the thing.
Speaker: Here's how I know Girl Scouts of America is a little shady because they're not producing them to be sold like the Girl Scout cookies.
Speaker: You can only buy them online. Cutting out the Girl Scouts actually selling this stuff. But they did say that all the money will go to the Girl Scouts. All proceeds will stay local to support councils and troops. But the councils and troops ain't selling it. They sell it online, which leads me to believe it could be some time foolery going on.
Speaker: But the cookies will be available January 2027, part of the rollout of gro scout cookers of america I just looked this up.
Speaker: Girl Scouts of the USA generates roughly $800 $900 million dollars in gross annual cookie revenue.
Speaker: It's big business. It's big business. Let me tell you how important cookie time was. When I was a Girl Scout, that time of year, but you you learned salesmanship.
Speaker: You learned hustle and work ethic because you had to get out there and you had to sell these boxes. And it wasn't hard because everybody wants some tree foils or some thin mints. I don't want no tree-for-olds. I'll take some thin mints, though.
Speaker: i don't want that shortbread cookie. I love that shortbread cookie. Diffin' in some milk. That's delicious cookie. And I hated the fact that our mom and dad would, that's like their favorite cookie. So they would come home with all these Girl Scout cookies, and i was like, where the Tagalongs? Where the Samoas? Those are my cookies. That's what I like. Mine are the Do-Si-Dos. And the thing is, I'm not even- Which one are Do-Si-Dos? The peanut butter sandwich cookie.
Speaker: And I'm not even a peanut butter person, but them Do-Si-Dos are delicious. minute, what did I say? Samoas? Tagalongs? I thought that's what the Tagalongs was, was the peanut butter cookie. No, Tagalongs, I think, are the chocolate caramel cookies.
Speaker: That too. I'll take that too. Like I said, all they got to knock off are the Thin Mints. Oh, no. It's the shortbread cookie with a layer of peanut butter covered in chocolate. So was a different... That's the only shortbread cookie I like. They get them tree falls. I call them triflins.
Speaker: And they have four five boxes of them triflins. I'm like, I don't... know They were good cookies. hate Thin Mints. I don't like mint. i dont like Let me tell you something. That's the only way I eat mint. Is it in a thin mint? Or um what's it what's that one little candy bar that uses mint? ah York's Peppermint Patty? I eat the hell out of a York's Peppermint Patty. That's the nastiest candy. look Let me tell you something. It'll clean out your sinuses in a minute.
Speaker: Yeah, for sure. all little all ah If you had any drainage, blockage, or anything, you're breathing real good because that peppermint is strong. Strong. And your breath smells good, too. You can eat a treat and your breath smells good. That's true.
Speaker: You're like, what is that? but You smell good. That ain't nothing but a thin mint. York Peppermint Patty. That's all that is, baby. spell Sweet minty. it' well Sweet and minty. Yeah. That's how that thing must be. But look, let me tell you something.
Speaker: ah This is dope, right? Because whatever brings more money to the Girl Scout. I don't know. 800 million is a lot of a lot of damn money. It's a lot of girls. and look are they don't is Does some of this money that they make from Girl Scouts of America go to charities?
Speaker: Let me see. 100% net proceeds stay local rather than accumulating in a centralized corporate ah or for the national organization. know, probably. They probably do. The money probably does go somewhere. But, I mean, it mostly supports...
Speaker: you know, ah camps, training programs, different troop activities, community projects. But these are things that, you know, benefit the community if it doesn't immediately go charity. Did you have to pay? Did you have to pay to join the Girl Scouts?
Speaker: Mm-mm. You just had to sell some cookies. You had to sell them cookies. You know you know what I've always felt? Because I didn't realize it was training involved. e to sell these cookies. Yeah, you got to learn to salesman. probably the reason why you're a good negotiator right now. Mm-hmm.
Speaker: That's probably the reason. I could always get you to get that one extra box. Because the Boy Scouts, ah well, I didn't stay in the Boy Scouts for long because I only came for the M&Ms of popcorn and lemonade. yeah Look, let me tell you something.
Speaker: In my youth, if you had some M&M's, popcorn, and some lemonade, you could get me to go to Boy Scouts. You can get me to go to vacation Bible school, vacation Bible study. Kuhlman, Saturday school, all of the things. It was a lot of times. Can't be involved. It was a lot of times. One of my best friends was growing up.
Speaker: He was just like, hey, do you want to go to vacation Bible school me? No, I don't want to do that. It's the first week of the summer. No, but if my friend is going to be at camp all day long, what else am I going to do? And then he said, well, we get popcorn and M&M's and lemonade. And it was the same thing he said to get me to join Boy Scouts. And I was like, this is boring. The only thing I'm looking for is M&M's, the popcorn and lemonade, and I don't get that to the end. This is a scam to keep me here. Now, I've always had a problem with Girl Scouts because they got y'all out on the block selling stuff, and I feel like that's a slippery damn slope. Your troop leader or a parent volunteer or something is there. like it's not That's not what I'm talking about.
Speaker: There might be a direct correlation. between Girl Scouts and the Boomer Only Fans. That's all I'm saying. That's all I'm saying. You gotta use what got to do what you want. Okay? Fans.
Speaker: OnlyFans is worth a billion damn dollars. And I'm not, hey, I'm not knocking it. Get your money. What I'm knocking is an organization teaching y'all, programming y'all how to sell these cookies. And does the benefit really go to you guys? 100% of the benefit, yes. No, I'm talking about did the benefit of learning these skills really go to you guys? Is it really for you or is it really to push these cookies?
Speaker: it it's It's a little bit of both, right? Like it teaches you to be industrious. It teaches you work ethic. It teaches you, you know, they like you do learn things. It's not the only thing you do. Cookie time is in the spring. It's once a year. It's like, it's not the only thing you do in Girl Scouts. You do You do lot of really cool stuff and you get to build camaraderie with with girls your age and get collect patches, learning how to do different things and like...
Speaker: It instills a lot of confidence. Okay. And there are a lot of great benefits. isn' it But they got to make money, too. It's like that's, you know, it's once a year. It's like a month.
Speaker: And you sell these cookies and then you move on with your life. Like, it's not, they got to make money, too. I do think that eventually these are going to be out there.
Speaker: and being sold directly by the Girl Scouts, just like the cookies. And I do believe that they're going to track the sales online and realize that it can entice more people to buy these things coming out of the store because odds are, if they got their dog with them, their dog is going to immediately sniff it and be like, what's this over here? And you know, a dog is not a child.
Speaker: but a dog parent will treat their dog like a child. Yes. And typically when your dog asks you for something, nine times out ten going to give it to them. You're going give it to Yeah. And you're going to talk to them, like you just said, like a child. You want something to eat?
Speaker: Are you hungry? Use your words. You want one of these cookies? Which one you want? i will do I will have that full conversation while the dog is just looking at me, waiting for me to just give give them something. Give them something. Yeah.
Speaker: But also, we all don't know the prices of these dog cookies yet. I guarantee to you. They're probably not cheap. No, they're not going to be cheap, which is another expense for every dog parent. Because if you're going to get yourself some cookies, going feel guilty not getting your dog something. So that's just adding to your bill. And this economy, I applaud Girl Scouts of USA America doing this.
Speaker: yeah i doing this The United States of America, America. The United States America, America. But also, why y'all making us go into the pocket even more? I know the production these cookies. Because you're going do it. But they already raised the prices of the cookies.
Speaker: Right? Inflation is real. It is real. Everybody can't be the Arizona company and not raising the price on Arizona tea. don't know how they're making any money. Because everybody's still buying Arizona tea.
Speaker: I have had an Arizona tea in 30 years. Well, I love it. And it's still a dollar for a big old can of tea. So you're not going to convince me that y'all going to get them Girl Scout cookies. I don't care that they got the off-brand versions. of When them Girl Scouts are standing outside that Walmart with their little table cookies.
Speaker: And the little sign, the troop number, and they got their little uniforms on. and Y'all gonna buy them cookies. And they gonna keep selling them.
Speaker: Jay, before we get out of here, what do you want to tell the people? Because they ain't gonna see us for two weeks. Well, that's not true. You go on our YouTube page, you'll still see us. You will see us. You just, you know, I don't know. It's not gonna be in real time. That's fine.
Speaker: That's true. This isn't in real time, but that's okay. Listen. Just buy the cookies, okay? You're helping little girls gain confidence and leadership skills.
Speaker: They don't end up on OnlyFans unless they do.
Speaker: And if they do, I guarantee they're making a lot of money because they learned how to have just an amazing work ethic. Okay? Because they're out there in the heat all day toting them cookies. Yeah.
Speaker: I know I was one of them. Buy them cookies. and Buy as many as you can. Oh. For me, I want to bring this all back around for a second, as I do.
Speaker: Because on the surface, a 20-year-old looks-macking's influencer and people building AI don't have a damn thing in common. But the more I've sat with these stories, the more i realize this isn't really about faces or machines.
Speaker: It's about the race. Look at the looks-maxing world. It promises young men control. Turn attraction into numbers, fix your face, fix your life.
Speaker: And look, I'm not against the gym, a good haircut, or taking care of your skin. That's just grown man maintenance. But when the finish line keeps moving, you're not improving anymore.
Speaker: You're chasing. Insecurity improvement, a little validation, then a brand new insecurity. Round and round you go. Now look at AI. The people building it are the ones telling us it could get away from us.
Speaker: The folks at the top all said slowing down was necessary. Not one of them said they were actually slowing down. Same race, bigger stakes.
Speaker: Nobody wants to be the one who stops first. But here's the uncomfortable part people don't want to talk about. We're in this race too. We reward it. We click on the most extreme transformation. We share the most outrageous clip. We buy the newest thing before we ever ask what it costs. The algorithm didn't invent that hunger.
Speaker: It just learned how to feed it. So maybe the question isn't how far we can go. Maybe it's who pays for it when we get there. Because a young man hitting his own face for a better score and a company racing towards something it admits it can't fully control are running on the same fuel.
Speaker: The fear of falling behind. And winning a race cycle state doesn't mean a thing if you never asked where the finish line was. Ladies and gentlemen, and I want to thank you for listening.
Speaker: I want to thank you for watching and until next time, as always, I'll holla.
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