I’m Jumping on a Podcast with My Friend Laurence Kaldor

So here’s something fun. I’ll be recording a show soon with my good friend Laurence Kaldor. He asked me to come on his podcast to talk about AI—something we've both been circling around for a while now.

Laurence and I go back a few years. He’s a former judge out of California, now a Florida resident like myself… who survived a plane crash (yeah, for real), lost a leg, lost an eye, found God, and wrote a book about it called The Gift The Book. It’s raw, honest, deeply personal—definitely worth a read if you’re into real stories about resilience, faith, and finding meaning through chaos.

A couple years back, I introduced him to ChatGPT, Anthropic, and this rapidly shifting AI landscape—and to his credit, he dove right in. Since then, he’s built a website, published his book, dusted off an old podcast, and started putting his voice out there. So when he reached out recently and said, “Rich, you really ought to start a podcast,” and then immediately followed it with, “Actually, why don’t you come on mine?”—I was in.

We’re not live streaming it (yet), and this isn’t some slick, corporate production. It’s just two guys who’ve been having long, winding conversations about AI finally pressing record. I'm genuinely looking forward to it.

Now, fair warning: this could go one of two ways. Either it’ll be a really entertaining, insightful, maybe even enlightening conversation about AI from two very different angles—or it could descend into a ridiculous spiral of nonsense. Because when Laurence and I get talking, the filter drops. We speak in callbacks, movie quotes, and made-up words. One joke leads to the next until we’re five tangents deep and completely off the rails. To an outside observer, we probably sound like we’re speaking a made-up language. And sometimes... we kind of are.

So yeah—this could be great. Or it could be an audio recording of two middle-aged men accidentally getting Baker Acted. 😂

Checkout the teaser Laurence posted (complete with his “Podcast Conscience” shtick—it’s very him)

And if you're curious about his story you should definitely check out his book: thegiftthebook.com

I’ll post again once the episode drops. Whatever it becomes, I think it’s going to be something worth hearing.

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