Ep 602 - Future Man (feat. Kevin Ashton)
3/6/20261 hr 11 min
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 00:00
Wow.
Matt McCusker· Host0:00
The Wow Wow Wes. Hey, what's up, brother? What's all... What's going on, everybody? I'm already fumbling over my fucking words. Dude, I suck. I'm here with Kevin Ashton. How you doing, man?
Kevin Ashton· Guest0:08
I'm good. How are you?
Matt McCusker· Host0:09
[laughs] Pretty good. So how would you define yourself? Obviously author.
Kevin Ashton· Guest0:12
Yeah.
Matt McCusker· Host0:12
Futurist.
Kevin Ashton· Guest0:13
Old guy.
Matt McCusker· Host0:14
Futurist. You think you're old now?
Kevin Ashton· Guest0:16
Oh, God, yeah.
Matt McCusker· Host0:16
What?
Kevin Ashton· Guest0:17
57.
Matt McCusker· Host0:18
57?
Kevin Ashton· Guest0:19
57.
Matt McCusker· Host0:20
I'm- Feeling it.
Kevin Ashton· Guest0:21
Yeah ...
Matt McCusker· Host0:21
I'm, I'm not, I'm not too far behind. I'm 40.
Kevin Ashton· Guest0:22
Oh. Oh, that's young.
Matt McCusker· Host0:24
40, I, I think 40 is kind of... I still feel like a boy. Like, there's never, the switch has never occurred where I'm like... A little bit I feel like a man, but- I, I go in the grocery store, they're playing the music I danced to when I was a kid. Really?
Kevin Ashton· Guest0:35
That's, that makes you feel old.
Matt McCusker· Host0:37
Oh, when it's in the grocery store?
Kevin Ashton· Guest0:38
Yeah, it's like the Muzak now.
Matt McCusker· Host0:40
Yeah, yeah.
Kevin Ashton· Guest0:41
[laughs] Like, like, you know, the Cure or whatever.
Matt McCusker· Host0:42
That's- [laughs] That was alt when I was young. So what, what was your, what was your music back in the day? What, what was your go-to?
Kevin Ashton· Guest0:46
Oh, I pr- I was a jazz funk guy.
Matt McCusker· Host0:48
Really?
Kevin Ashton· Guest0:48
Yeah.
Matt McCusker· Host0:49
Jazz funk. When- Like- 50- No, it's like the...
Kevin Ashton· Guest0:52
It's a British name for, like, R&B basically. So, like- Mm-hmm ... mid-'80s, it was, like, Luther Vandross and stuff like that.
Matt McCusker· Host0:58
Ooh.
Kevin Ashton· Guest0:59
Yeah.
Matt McCusker· Host0:59
You're smooth, brother.
Kevin Ashton· Guest1:00
Oh, yeah. [laughs] All the working-class kids in London, that's what we were into, yeah.
Matt McCusker· Host1:03
There you go. Nice.
Kevin Ashton· Guest1:04
The posh kids liked, you know, the punky stuff, but we were- I, so I gotta ask you then. Yeah.
Matt McCusker· Host1:09
Is it true... 'Cause I, I have a friend who's from London, and lo- he loves soccer.
Kevin Ashton· Guest1:13
Okay.
Matt McCusker· Host1:14
And I, I, you know, naturally. And in America, soccer's looked at as a sport kind of for girls. You know what I mean? Like, it's- Not so much now, though. Yeah, not so much. When I... I was trying to explain to him, when I grew up it was like, like, we... Everyone played football. That's what we, we call American