Episode 456 – Foxes on Ships, Free Oysters & AI That Knows When It’s Wrong

What did we talk about this week on The Slade and Mayson Show?This week’s episode travels from cargo ships and oyster bars to black holes and artificial intelligence.We start with the strange story of a red fox that somehow boarded a cargo ship in England and ended up making the entire journey across the Atlantic before being discovered in the United States — proof that sometimes wildlife travel is more adventurous than human vacations.Closer to home, JD and Dan talk about their weekly routine of meeting up before the show so Dan can help JD log music for his country podcast, Sladio, which is linked below.History pops up as the conversation turns to entertainment in the early 20th century, including the once-common use of blackface in film and stage performances and how the 1927 movie The Jazz Singer fits into that complicated history.Of course, March weather makes an appearance again as temperatures swing wildly between winter, spring, and what occasionally feels like summer.From there, the show veers into odd news stories — including a couple who decided to make butter by running with containers of cream on a track, and a man attempting to smuggle ants out of Kenya.Politics takes a strange turn when we talk about a Texas mayoral candidate who legally changed his name to “Literally Anybody Else.”Air travel gets a rare moment of good news as United Airlines announces it will begin enforcing rules against passengers blasting music without headphones.The show briefly goes cosmic as JD talks about black holes interacting with neutron stars while Dan brings up the possibility of planetary collisions — the sort of discussion that might make astrophysicists twitch.Artificial intelligence returns as a major topic. Researchers at the University of Southern California have demonstrated AI models that can recognize gaps in their own knowledge and attempt to research the correct answer.Meanwhile, the tech industry continues to shift alliances as Microsoft maintains its partnership with OpenAI while also embracing work with Anthropic. At the same time, Meta Platforms faces massive infrastructure spending tied to AI development.We also share one of the most wholesome stories of the week: a man named Jimmy Rush celebrating his 80th birthday at Wintzell’s Oyster House in Alabama with his 99-year-old father — honoring a decades-old sign promising free oysters to any man over 80 who arrives with his father.And somewhere along the way we talk about the unlikely career evolution of Ice-T — once known for controversial music and now widely recognized for playing a police officer on television.Foxes on ships, butter on running tracks, strange elections, cosmic collisions, and AI learning how to admit when it’s wrong.All that and more on Episode 456 of The Slade and Mayson Show.Listen to the podcast version: Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and SoundCloudMerch: https://teespring.com/stores/the-slade-and-mayson-show-2Sponsor: http://www.IceysomethinIcey.comMusic: Courtesy of Dano https://danosongs.com/More from JD: Old-time country music daily on Sladiohttps://soundcloud.com/sladio-539214100/Follow the show:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sladeandmaysonTwitter/X: https://twitter.com/SladeAndMayson