About The Black Futurist podcast with Bryndan Moore
Welcome to The Black Futurist podcast, the show that explores the vision and impact of the people and innovation pushing the boundaries of our imagination.
Through our series of interviews with creators and executives (read: brilliant people), we explore topics such as career, relationships, motivation and sci-fi, as well as current events in science, technology and entertainment.
We create open dialogue that allows for challenging conversations about the state of the world, as well as the place of humanity within it.
How will what we see today impact our future?
Eric Roberson on AI, Music’s Future, and Tech on the Road | The Black Futurist Podcast
Host Bryndan D. Moore interviews singer-songwriter Eric Roberson about AI's impact on music, future tech for travelers, and creative innovation.
15 Apr 2026
Revolutionizing Art Ownership: La Mer Walker Introduces SOQWallet
Soq Wallet: Where Physical Art Meets Crypto Rewards | The Black Futurist Podcast ft. La Mer Walker
On The Black Futurist Podcast, host Bryndan D. Moore and Dr. Maurice Dolberry talk with La Mer Walker, founder of Super Position Velocity and CEO of SOQWallet, about SOQWallet’s culture-first approach to art commerce.
La Mer explains Soq Wallet as a curated e-commerce platform selling physical art and collectibles (launching with a Paul Frank collection) that can be “activated” via a certificate of authenticity and digital provenance claim, creating a digital twin in a vault. Users can buy with credit cards or stablecoins like USDC, manage assets across multiple blockchains, earn platform rewards, and optionally place assets into Stable Fusion positions to earn stablecoin yield. They discuss virtual museum possibilities, ownership transfer mechanics, and how SOQWallet uses regulated payment partners plus KYC and human review to reduce illicit activity risks.
00:00 Crypto Crime Concerns
00:43 Why Blockchain Is Traceable
01:26 Meet La Mer Walker
02:43 How We Met
04:06 Artemis 2 Moon Debate
07:37 Blue Origin Takeaways
13:07 From Sock Money To SOQWallet
15:59 What Is Soq Wallet19:06 How The Vault Works
23:00 Activating Physical Art
26:35 Meta Museum Possibilities
31:24 Crypto Crime Reality Check
32:22 Drift Hack Breakdown
34:40 Building Safer Payment Gates
37:36 Cloning and IP Moats
40:10 Expanding Art Mediums
41:46 Culture Meets Commerce
45:53 Paul Frank Origin Story
47:29 Physical Plus Digital Ownership
49:28 Quantum Threat to Encryption
52:17 Next Drops and Creator Wishlist
57:27 Curated Culture Collections
59:42 Paul Frank Characters and VIP Signup
01:01:37 Closing Thanks and Future Guests
3 Apr 2026
AI, Birthright Citizenship, and the Moral Considerations of Modern Law
AI, Profit, and Power: Anthropic vs. the Pentagon, OpenAI’s $122B Raise, and Morality vs the Profit Motive | The Black Futurist PodcastHosts Bryndan D. Moore and Dr. Maurice Dolberry debate AI’s future through three threads: a California federal judge blocking the Pentagon from punishing Anthropic by labeling it a supply-chain risk, framing it as illegal First Amendment retaliation tied to pressure to use AI for lethal military decisions; the Supreme Court battle over reinterpretation of the 14th Amendment and birthright citizenship, highlighting confusion over concepts like “domicile” and “allegiance” and the difficulty of amending the Constitution; and OpenAI’s $122B raise at an $852B valuation, including Amazon’s $50B and Nvidia/SoftBank’s $30B each, with AGI-related terms. They argue AI is becoming infrastructure, but warn profit-first incentives and geopolitical blowback could drive instability, making moral governance and positional choices urgent.00:00 AI Exports For Profit01:05 Podcast Intro And Anthropic Case01:59 Birthright Citizenship Fight11:43 Constitution Change Is Hard15:19 Grammar Rant Interlude18:48 OpenAI Mega Funding20:20 Money Scale And Power25:10 AGI As Infrastructure26:36 Tech Cynicism And Robots27:23 Greed Over Solutions28:48 Goldilocks Asteroid Myth30:44 McGuffins And Hoarding31:25 Selling AI Like Oil32:55 Morality Versus Profit35:32 Who Gets Help First39:26 Local Change And Reparations44:32 Revolution And Payback47:47 Positionality And Survival52:12 Empires Fall And Blackouts59:13 Closing Thoughts And Plugs
Inside a recent episode
Eric Roberson on AI, Music’s Future, and Tech on the Road | The Black Futurist Podcast
Published 18 Jun 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] The world chose it. We're like, hey, I want to hear my music this way. Yeah. We can have it on my phone now. I want to listen to it this way. And it's like, hey, but you know, artists only been paid 0.00000003 cent, right? Right. We don't care. That's how we want to listen to it. The world chose it. They were like, we don't care if people are getting killed. You know what I mean? And it happens all the time, right? When we got the new... Apple, iPhone, but, you know, little kids in China were building it in some fact. Oh, we don't care. We want it. It's a world show. So with AI, I think, first of all, half of the music you're probably hearing now is probably generated through AI already. […]
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