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Episode 0 exists for one reason: so you know exactly what you're getting into\nbefore you subscribe. Going Human isn't an AI show. It's a human one, with AI\nas the pressure test. New headlines every week swear everything's changing.\nNobody's asking what's happening to us.

Your host is two people at once: forty years running retail technology and\noperations, and a lifetime in music. The artist who wants to protect the human\nstuff, and the operator who geeks out on how the machine works and why. No\noracle here, and no answers. This is a temple where fellow travelers hang out\nand talk. Smart, funny, profane (potty mouth disclosed up front), and above\nall hopeful. One house rule: every human's dignity is table stakes. That part\nis not up for debate.

This imperfect human inaugural address lays out the four beats every episode\nwill follow: the Stone (one thing, drilled deep: what's right, what isn't,\nand how it lands on human beings), the Ripples (guests: thinkers, artists,\ncreators, dog walkers, because what matters isn't what one host thinks),\nthe Fuckery (fuck yes / fuck no / fuck maybe, and you get to vote on the\nmaybes at the site), and the Tsunami (one human thing to do before the\nnext episode: something you can feel, see, smell, or taste). Plus a puppy who\nrefused to let any of it be recorded the easy way.

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We get new AI headlines every week. Everything changes. Nothing changes.\nMaybe. Everyone argues what machines can do. What a miracle this is. But\nnobody's asking what's happening to us. Going Human isn't an AI show. It's a\nhuman one. AI is our pressure test. Who am I? My name's Moss. I spent 40 years\nin retail operations and technology. I also spent much of my life in music,\nsinging, songwriting, performing live, and had a great pleasure of hanging out\nwith a lot of artists. So in me and in this podcast, you're getting an artist\nwho wants to protect the human stuff and an operator who geeks out on how the\nmachine works and why it works. I'm not an oracle. I don't have answers.

This is just a temple. It's a temple that fellow travelers hang out in. We\ntalk. It should be fart. It should be fart. See? I'm human. It should be\nsmart. It should be funny. It'll be profane because I've got a potty mouth.\nBut I am hopeful, and this show should be hopeful. One\nthing I should warn you: I don't appreciate perspectives that don't consider\nall humans equal, or that think policies that treat people that way aren't\nimportant. I'm not here to entertain the argument that some people don't\ndeserve dignity. I'm not gonna make that argument, and I'm not gonna host it.

We're gonna be doing this show with four real parts for the duration of its\nexistence. We're gonna start with the Stone. The Stone is this idea that I'm\ngonna find one thing every podcast that I want to drill deep into. I'm gonna\ntell you what I know about it. I'm gonna tell you what's right about it in my\nmind. I'm gonna tell you what I think isn't good about it. Either way, I'm\ngoing to tell you how it affects human beings.

Then we're going to drive into the Ripples. The Ripples is me having a guest\non, or two, or nine, I don't know, I'm going to have to learn. We're going to\ntalk about these same topics with those people, because what matters to me\nisn't what I think. What matters to me is how this world perceives, behaves,\nand acts, together or individually, to make sure our humanity remains intact\nand flourishes.

Third, we're gonna be talking about Fuckery. I know that's a swear word, and I\ntold you it's gonna be profane. The idea with Fuckery is that we're gonna have\nfuck yes, fuck no, and fuck maybe. I'll give you examples each show of what a\nfuck yes feels like. I'll also give you very clear examples of what a fuck no\nfeels like: where people are profiting on other people's insecurities, or\nloneliness, or fear about financial security, whatever. And my website, where\nyou can come check in and reach all the former episodes, will have the ability\nto vote on these maybes. I really want to know how people would vote, so I'm\ngonna encourage you to come leave your comments and vote. And you have to\nexcuse my dog, because I'm human and he's a puppy, and he won't let me record\nthis. So that's the Fuckery.

And then as we close our show each time, it's what I call Tsunami. The concept\nis that we're gonna be supposing that you do one thing in that next two-week\nperiod. It'll always be something human and personal. It'll either be\nemotional, or something you can feel with your body, or something you can see,\nsmell, taste with your senses. I hope that, if nothing else, we can have this\nrich conversation around our vulnerabilities with AI, but also bring it back\nto the richness of our lives as human beings.

So that's our show. This is Episode Zero. It exists solely to help you\nunderstand what you're getting yourself into if you subscribe, which I hope\nyou do. We're gonna have a good time. It's gonna be less me blabbing alone,\nhopefully. A lot more involvement with other people: thinkers, artists,\ncreators, dog walkers, which I probably need. We're gonna have a good time,\nand I hope that you'll join us, and I hope that you'll engage in a way that\nhelps enrich this community like we so dearly need.

Okay, we'll look forward to you next week. Thank you so much. Subscribe,\nlike, click. I'm learning what you have to do myself, so I'm gonna get better\nat asking. This is my imperfect human inaugural address. Thank you so much for\njoining us. This is Going Human, and it's something we all gotta do. It's the\nonly thing we have left. See you next week.

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