May 20, 2026 · 45 min · 11 segments
We start this week with Sam telling us all about the commencement speeches where speakers have been praising AI, including former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. That did not go down well! After the break…
Joseph CoxHost
Sam ColeHost
The first one here, the headline is, "Students boo commencement speaker after she calls AI the," quote, "next industrial revolution." What we'll actually do before we talk about it, let's just play, uh, the audio first of this particular speaker.
[clapping] The rise of artificial intelligence is the next industrial revolution.
Al- [laughing] [booing] Whoa.
What happened? [laughing] Okay, I struck a chord.
M-may I finish? [laughing] Uh, only a few years ago, AI was not a factor in our lives.
[cheering] [clapping] [laughing] Okay.
Um, but it's, you know, like thousands of graduates from University of Central Florida's College of Arts and Humanities and the Nicholson School of Communication and Media who were graduating on May 8th.
And the commencement speaker was Gloria Caulfield, and she is the vice president of strategic alliances at Tavistock Group.
[laughing] It's almost-- you almost feel bad for her because she's so off the mark as far as what these graduates want to hear and need to hear during this graduation.
So she, she's, um, she's coming from like a pr- a private equity sort of background.
Sometimes it's someone who's, like, connected to the college in some way, like they are an a-alum or they are, uh... sometimes they're, like, a famous person who the school is giving them, like, an honorary doctorate or something like that.
On the point of it being, like, people being connected, like ostensibly to the school, um, the group, Tavistock Group that Gloria works for, uh, she, her part of her job description is she oversees the health and medical partnerships and business development for Tavistock's visionary Lake Nona community.
So I assume probably what happened, and again, we don't know for sure, but, um, UCF was like, "We gotta give, uh, this," [laughing] like, "in exchange for helping us set up the health and sciences campus on visionary Lake Nona, uh, we're gonna give the, the person who helped make that happen a s-a slot in a con- a commencement speech." And, you know, unfortunately for her, the slot was the College of Arts and Humanities, so that's maybe the connection.
The first one here, the headline is, "Students boo commencement speaker after she calls AI the," quote, "next industrial revolution." What we'll actually do before we talk about it, let's just play, uh, the audio first of this particular speaker.
[clapping] The rise of artificial intelligence is the next industrial revolution.
Al- [laughing] [booing] Whoa.
What happened? [laughing] Okay, I struck a chord.
M-may I finish? [laughing] Uh, only a few years ago, AI was not a factor in our lives.
[cheering] [clapping] [laughing] Okay.
Um, but it's, you know, like thousands of graduates from University of Central Florida's College of Arts and Humanities and the Nicholson School of Communication and Media who were graduating on May 8th.
And the commencement speaker was Gloria Caulfield, and she is the vice president of strategic alliances at Tavistock Group.
[laughing] It's almost-- you almost feel bad for her because she's so off the mark as far as what these graduates want to hear and need to hear during this graduation.
So she, she's, um, she's coming from like a pr- a private equity sort of background.
Sometimes it's someone who's, like, connected to the college in some way, like they are an a-alum or they are, uh... sometimes they're, like, a famous person who the school is giving them, like, an honorary doctorate or something like that.
On the point of it being, like, people being connected, like ostensibly to the school, um, the group, Tavistock Group that Gloria works for, uh, she, her part of her job description is she oversees the health and medical partnerships and business development for Tavistock's visionary Lake Nona community.
So I assume probably what happened, and again, we don't know for sure, but, um, UCF was like, "We gotta give, uh, this," [laughing] like, "in exchange for helping us set up the health and sciences campus on visionary Lake Nona, uh, we're gonna give the, the person who helped make that happen a s-a slot in a con- a commencement speech." And, you know, unfortunately for her, the slot was the College of Arts and Humanities, so that's maybe the connection.
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