Professor G. Truck
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About Professor G. Truck
- Birthday 03/02/1970
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Professor G. Truck started following Let's Talk About Celine Dion , Earworm Exorcism! , Looming Existential Dread: Robotic and Real and 7 others
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Earworms: Categorized, Analyzed, Deconstructed, and Dispelled What an excellent day for an earworm exorcism. An obsessive, comprehensive, and digressive deep dive into how these insidious auditory creatures worm their way into our brains, wrap around our cerebral cortex, and make us susceptible to suggestions of the catchiest kind. A montage-- a veritable shitload-- of the sounds that capture our consciousness (and the theory and philosophy of how and why they do this). But be warned: your brain might not survive unscathed . . . this many earworms have NEVER been assembled in one place before. Special Guests: Too many to count. Three fantastic podcast episodes inspired this project. "The Case of the Missing Hit" (Reply All) "Whomst Amongst Us Let the Dogs out" (99% Invisible) "Louie Louie: The Strange Journey of the Dirtiest Song Never Written" (Lost Notes)
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Of Murderbots and Menopause Thoughts (loosely) based on Kate Christensen's novel Welcome Home, Stranger, the first two installments of The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells, and Hamlet. Special Guests: Billy Joel, Ween, David Tennant, Kenneth Branagh, Greta Thunberg, Marvin the Paranoid Android, Brother Maynard, William Shatner, Woody Allen, Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Queen, and The Prodigy.
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Artificial Intelligence Invades High School English Class
Professor G. Truck posted an episode in We Defy Augury
Is AI Cheating Our Students Out of an Education? Thoughts (loosely) based on Professor Truck's experiences teaching high school English in the age of artificial intelligence-- and his attempts at defining ethical AI usage in academic and creative settings . . . with bonus thoughts (loosely) based on three classic science-fiction novels: Theodore Sturgeon's More Than Human and The Dreaming Jewels and They Walked Like Men by Clifford D. Simak. Special Guests: Gary Gasparov, Jimmy Kimmel, The Beach Boys, Alan Turing, The Matrix, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, ChatGPT, Bard AI, and Mark "Imprint" Zuckerberg. -
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Capitalism Sucks (But It Sucks Less Than the Alternative) Thoughts on capitalism (loosely) based on three novels published in the 1980s: Carl Hiasen's Tourist Season, Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities, and Martin Cruz Smith's Gorky Park. Special Guests: Oingo Boingo, Lloyd Dobbler, Conan O'Brien, and Anthony Bourdain.
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Does Your Musical Taste Stand on Solid Ground? Thoughts (loosely) based on Carl Wilson's music criticism masterpiece Let's Talk About Love: Why Other People Have Such Bad Taste. Special Guests: Celine Dion, Huey Lewis and the News, New Found Glory, Robert Johnson, Greensky Bluegrass, The Easy Star All Stars, Bas Gaakeer & Mireille Bittar, Joey Satriani, David Berman, Pavement, Beavis and Butthead, David St. Hubbins, Nigel Tufnel, greasetruck, and Pythagoras.
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Colleen Hoover and the Art of the Inner Monologue
Professor G. Truck posted an episode in We Defy Augury
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