Me, Myself and AI

About Me, Myself and AI

Real Ones and Robots is a podcast where I use today’s most powerful AI tools to dig into the stories, ideas, and forces shaping our world. From economics to culture, housing to innovation, I explore what matters through the lens of a 30-something Black Canadian woman—professional, creative, and curious. It’s part research, part reflection, and part storytelling: a space where data meets lived experience, and where technology becomes a tool for deeper understanding.

Publisher

Casey B

Category

news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

25 Mar 2025

Latest episode

25 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

2 of 52 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   25 Sept 2026

   For What It's Worth - Part 1: The Receipt

   In 1834, Britain abolished slavery across most of its empire and paid out £20 million in compensation. Not to the people who had been enslaved. To the people who claimed to own them. That bill is being argued over right now. On 25 March 2026, the UN General Assembly declared the trafficking and racialized chattel enslavement of Africans the gravest crime against humanity and called for dialogue on reparatory justice: 123 countries voted yes, 3 voted no, and the UK, Canada and all 27 EU states abstained. In August, the UN's anti-racism treaty body adopted General Recommendation 40. On 7 September, Jamaica petitioned King Charles to refer three questions to the Privy Council: was enslavement in Jamaica ever lawful, did it breach international law, and does Britain owe a remedy? CARICOM relaunched its revised reparations plan in Barbados this month, and Commonwealth leaders meet in Antigua and Barbuda in November. So this isn't history. It's a receipt somebody is still trying to collect. Casey and Jay go through the paperwork. The appraisers who sorted human beings into classes and attached a price to each. The MP whose Jamaican estate held 572 people. The Liverpool merchant who received the largest payment in the entire scheme, and the 1823 uprising on his plantation where Britain sent in troops. Then the arguments. Was it legal at the time, and does that settle anything? What did the United States pay, and to whom? What is Canada's part in a story? And what do the competing models actually measure, from the Brattle Group's $100–131 trillion to California's per-harm calculations? The episode starts before the ships, with Mali, Timbuktu, Benin, and the king of Kongo who wrote to Portugal in 1526 asking it to stop. It ends with a ship, a courtroom, an insurance claim, and 132 people treated as cargo. Casey and Jay don't agree. Part 2, After Emancipation, asks what that receipt bought: land, credit, housing, inheritance, and 160 years of wealth data. SOURCES UN A/RES/80/250 (25 Mar 2026) and explanations of vote; CERD General Recommendation 40 (Aug 2026); UN Basic Principles on the Right to a Remedy, A/RES/60/147 (2005); ICERD. Slavery Abolition Act 1833; UCL Legacies of British Slavery database (Spring Garden and John Gladstone awards); The National Archives (UK); HM Treasury FOI 2018-00186 on the compensation loan and the 2015 bond redemption. SlaveVoyages and the US National Park Service on embarkations, deaths in the Middle Passage, and arrivals in the Caribbean; Michael Tadman and B. W. Higman on Caribbean demography. The Antelope (1825); United States v. La Jeune Eugénie (1822); Gregson v. Gilbert (1783); Korematsu (1944), Civil Liberties Act 1988 and Trump v. Hawaii (2018); Canada's 1988 Japanese Canadian Redress Agreement; Jarvis v. United States (2021); Judicial Committee Act 1833, s.4. DC Compensated Emancipation Act 1862; 14th Amendment, s.4; 1860 census slave schedules. Parks Canada on slavery in the colonies that became Canada; the Chloe Cooley case and the Act Against Slavery 1793; Statistics Canada on Caribbean-born Black immigrants, the 2021 Census, and poverty across generations. Brattle Group report (2023) with Judge Patrick Robinson and the University of the West Indies; Thomas Craemer (2015); Darity and Mullen, From Here to Equality; California Task Force (AB 3121); Federal Reserve Survey of Consumer Finances 2022. Abuja Proclamation 1993; Accra Proclamation 2023; African Union 2025 reparations theme; Howard-Hassmann (2004) on the Group of Eminent Persons; IMF and French Treasury documentation of CFA franc arrangements. CARICOM Ten Point Plan, revised 2026.

2. 

   13 Sept 2026

   Lipstick on a pig: Lake Ontario Now & Forever

   Trump renamed Lake Ontario "Lake America" while U.S.-Canada tariffs hit their highest level in decades and Canada's economy slid into a technical recession. Along the way — Google Maps splitting the name by country, Ontario Premier Doug Ford's billboard response, Wendat Grand Chief Pierre Picard on what gets erased when a name changes, and the much darker precedent buried in Canadian history: the 1916 renaming of Berlin, Ontario to Kitchener, after a British commander whose own record includes the concentration camps of the Boer War. SOURCES The Phrase Wikipedia — Lipstick on a pig https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipstick_on_a_pig The Trade War Wikipedia — 2025–2026 United States trade war with Canada https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025%E2%80%932026_United_States_trade_war_with_Canada Canada Dept. of Finance — Countermeasures announcement (Aug. 25, 2026) https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2026/08/canada-announces-targeted-countermeasures-and-substantive-support-for-workers-and-businesses-in-response-to-us-tariffs.html The Economy Vanguard Canada — Canada 2026 Q3 Outlook https://www.vanguard.ca/en/insights/canada-outlook The Hub — Canada could lose 90,000 jobs to Trump's tariffs https://thehub.ca/2026/08/20/whats-at-stake-in-the-canada-u-s-trade-deal-how-looming-tariffs-could-cost-canada-90000-jobs/ Lake Ontario → "Lake America" CBS News — Trump signs executive order to rename Lake Ontario "Lake America" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-executive-order-lake-ontario-lake-america/ The Canadian Response NPR — Canada claps back at Trump's efforts to rename Lake Ontario https://www.npr.org/2026/08/30/nx-s1-5949254/lake-ontario-america-doug-ford-trump-sign-google ABC News (wire) — Ontario premier answers Trump with giant lake sign (Grand Chief Pierre Picard statement) https://abcnews.com/International/wireStory/ontario-premier-answers-trumps-lake-america-giant-lake-136060710 Berlin, Ontario → Kitchener Wikipedia — Berlin-to-Kitchener name change https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin-to-Kitchener_name_change Wikipedia — Berliner Journal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berliner_Journal ResearchGate — "There is no room in our city for hate" (scholarly source on the 1916 vote and 2020 controversy) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/364423051_'There_is_no_room_in_our_city_for_hate'_The_re-emerged_debates_over_the_current_and_former_place_name_of_a_Canadian_city Kitchener / Boer War Wikipedia — Second Boer War concentration camps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Boer_War_concentration_camps Denali / Mount McKinley / Gulf of America The White House — Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness (Executive Order, Jan. 20, 2025) https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/restoring-names-that-honor-american-greatness/ Postcast by: Casey Bradfield IG: @letcaseybe

3. 

   14 Aug 2026

   Good history

   We spend a lot of time talking about what’s wrong with the world. But what if we spent a little more time looking for evidence that things can actually change? In this episode of Real Ones and Robots, Casey goes looking for the moments when people looked at something that seemed permanent and decided it didn’t have to be. Finland changed how it approached homelessness. Vienna built public housing designed to last for generations. Costa Rica reversed decades of deforestation. Rwanda dramatically increased women’s representation and changed laws affecting women’s rights. And in New York, we’re watching a political experiment unfold in real time. But these aren’t simple success stories. Finland is now moving backward. Vienna’s achievements survived political upheaval, but not without enormous public investment. Rwanda’s progress exists alongside an authoritarian political system. And New York’s experiment hasn’t reached its ending yet. So we’re not asking, “Who solved the problem?” We’re asking something more interesting: What did they actually do? Who paid for it? Who fought it? What did it cost? And what made the change last—or allowed it to disappear? Because changing something once is one thing. Making it normal is another. This is Good History—stories about the times people proved that the world could be different.

Inside a recent episode

Kawhi’s Return

Published 1 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] That's a gutsy move. Leonard had one year left on his deal and had just come off a season where injury politics with the Spurs got so ugly, it basically forced the trade. Nobody knew if he'd even want to stay in Toronto. So what did that team look like? Coach Nick Nurse, first year on the job, starting five. Kyle Lowry at the point. Danny Green, Kawhi at small forward. Pascal Siakam at the four. Serge Ibaka at center. Midseason, they flip Jonas Valanciunas, DeLong Wright, and CJ Miles to Memphis for Mark Gasol. That trade ends up being huge for playoff spacing. Fred Van Vliet anchors the bench. […]

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