The Brave New World: AI, Abundance, and the Future of Humanity
Blunt Force Truth
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4.6 • 959 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
On Today's Episode
In this wide-ranging, just-the-two-of-them conversation, host Mark Young and co-host Matt Umbarger take a step back from the day's political headlines to tackle something bigger: what the AI revolution actually means for everyday Americans — their jobs, their health, their wealth, and their purpose. The episode runs about 75 minutes and covers everything from Elon Musk's economic predictions to a 1970s mouse experiment that may explain where our society is headed.
"AI is not about to take your job. Someone who knows how to use AI is going to take your job." Mark's parting challenge to listeners: don't put your head in the sand. Figure out how AI intersects with your career, get in front of it, and — most importantly — own things.
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| 0:00.0 | It's showtime. |
| 0:02.6 | People should not be afraid of their governments. |
| 0:05.6 | Government should be afraid of their people. |
| 0:08.6 | You know, the right to bear arms is because that's the last form of defense against tyranny. |
| 0:14.8 | Washington is fundamentally corrupt. |
| 0:16.7 | There are more words in the IRS code than there are in the Bible. |
| 0:28.1 | Made in America heard around the world. You're listening to Blunt Force Truth. |
| 0:36.0 | Your host, Mark Young, and co-host, manager, engineer, all things functional. |
| 0:41.5 | Matt Umbarger. So, Matt, we're going to have a random chat with people. |
| 0:51.9 | And we're going to put this focus on AI and technology. Okay. Because I want to try to catch some of some of our listeners up on some of this stuff because we're in a time right now. |
| 0:58.2 | And I don't know how you feel. |
| 0:59.5 | This is we're entering the brave new world right now. |
| 1:03.7 | Sure. |
| 1:05.7 | And I give an example. |
| 1:07.1 | If you go back to the original version of Star Trek right now, other than... |
| 1:13.6 | Chatner. Star Trek. Yes. Okay. Chatner. Shatter. Yep. Now, other than the transporter, |
| 1:20.9 | so remember the transporter? Sure. And warp speed. |
| 1:26.6 | Warp speed. Okay. So if you take the transporter and warp |
| 1:30.5 | speed out of star trek what's left in star trek that now doesn't exist phasers that's about it |
| 1:39.4 | the little weapons someone with laser yeah that actually exists, that actually exists. Well, direct energy weapons, maybe. Yeah, not much, not much. Yeah, especially if you watch, like, yeah, going fast, it's basically sailors in the future. It's all it is is the Navy in the future. Right. But if you, but, and it's funny because if you go back to that series, you look at what |
| 2:04.2 | William Shatner said. |
| 2:05.4 | William Shatner said, our business is risk. |
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