October 17, 2025 • 7 mins
Kevin Cirilli, host of the podcast "Hello, Future" talks about some of the extraordinary things we could see in the future
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I want to jump over to the Legacy Retirement Group
dot com phone line, excited to check in with Kevin Surreally.
Kevin is the host of the podcast Hello Future, which
you can hear on our iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Kevin is a futurist. Good morning, Kevin. How are you?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
I'm doing great. I hope your future is off to
a great start. It sounds like it is going to
be eighty degrees. That's wild.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
I know in late mid late October. We'll take it
in Columbus because you just never know. It's one of
those if you don't like the weather here, just wait right,
what's so talk about the podcast for thirty seconds? What
do we if we're going to hear on Hello Future.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
I'm the podcast that you listen to. I'm like the
wormhole that you go down about aliens and spaceships and
brain ships that you don't really talk about with your
work colleagues. That's the show so for and I just
interview really smart people where you know, when I was
a political journalist, I had to get out of it
because I was like, this is crazy. These all you
do is fight with people all day. But with futurism,
(00:58):
all you do is just ask quest about your crazy thoughts. So,
for example, I'm really into brain ships right now, and
everyone talks about Elon Musk and neuralink and all of
these brain ship things. And you know, my mom was
telling me, I don't want a brainship. That's scary, and
I'm like, sign me up. When can I get one?
Remember in the nineties or the early two thousands, when
you would walk down the street and you'd be like,
(01:19):
that person's had some work done, that person had a
nose job. I won't say the other type of jobs,
but you get what I'm saying. I we're truly be
asking have you had a brain job? Have you had
a brain ship implant? And I think that's awesome, right,
And so obviously there's a lot of national security concerns
about which companies are able to do that. I want
(01:42):
American companies in my brain and not China, Russia or
North Korea. But at the same time, I think we're
still a ways off from like uploading and downloading consciousness
in the short term. Why shouldn't we be able as
these early brainship tests are proving. For someone who comes
back from a conflict and loses their limb why shouldn't
we be able to put a ship in their brain
(02:04):
that gives them direct kinetic energy to be able to
move that limb. My father just had stints placed in
his heart, which is a very common procedure. That's you
know that at one point that was a groundbreaking procedure.
I'm sure a lot of your listeners know people who
have had knee surgery or knee replacements or hip replacements. Now,
why aren't we doing that same type of treatment with
(02:26):
our brain? So I think when it comes to Alzheimer's, Parkinson's,
a lot of these diseases, our technology, we're just at
the custs of having the ability to correct that with
these technology in our brain.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Kevin, do you think so? Right now?
Speaker 1 (02:38):
The brain ships are for people with some sort of disability,
right that, as you pointed out, I don't have arms,
but I use my brain to control the mouth on
my computer. Or you know, in your example, people coming
back from a military or a conflict and they use
a brain ship to help them out. Do you think
we'll get to the point where brain chips are cosmetic?
As you point out, they had a brain job where hey,
(03:01):
I just wanted to be able to make decisions faster
when I get older. Is that something that almost like
an elective surgery.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
I think that the conversation about elective brain procedures, yes,
absolutely is going to be had. And it's really seen
these conversations. And I'm not a doctor, but I report
on all of this in the newsletter and with the
Hello Future podcast. But we've seen all of these conversations
about weight loss procedures and living a better life and
losing weight, right We've seen that with thoseenpic is the
(03:31):
one that gets all the intention right now, but even
before that, it was you know, the you know, having
a surgery and whatnot. And so I absolutely think that
presentative brain care is something that's going to be in
the conversation, and in many ways it already is. I mean,
how many times you have you heard eat your vegetables
or eat this for better brain health, or do a
(03:52):
puzzle or a crossword puzzle every day for better better
brain health. We're having that conversation now, So I think
it's a really exciting time. I do not I'm not naive.
I think that there's important conversations that have to be
had around it, and we're going to have those conversations
on my show. But I'm a very optimistic about the
quality of life control. I mean, when everyone knows someone
(04:13):
who suffered from Alzheimer's or Parkinson's, it's a horrible disease.
We should be excited about trying to treat those diseases.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Interesting, And I wonder too if if AI is going
to play a role in this because we all made
we all may need brain chips, because you know, we're
all suffering to some degree from brain rots. Right, We're
spending so much time scrolling using AI. AI is doing
all the thinking for us. Now our brains are going
to atrophy. So we very well quite need, may quite
(04:42):
need those brain chips. Is AI in your view?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Kevin SURRELLI, host of the podcast Hello Future. Is AI
good or evil?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
I think it's great again. I'm an optimist because I
don't think I think, you know, the doom and gloom
that the mainstream media has put out about this is
kind of It's kind of like, Okay, we get it.
You think it's the end of the world, and it's
not the end of the world. Do you want to
live in a world without Internet? Do you want to
live in a world without If you go back to
the first Industrial Revolution. I don't know the printing press.
(05:11):
I mean like, I mean, technology has always been a
force for good. The average American interacts with space more
than two dozen times per day. So every time you're
on your phone, you're talking to satellite. There's ten thousand
satellites zooming around the planet right now. And so artificial
intelligence has an incredible opportunity to create to tackle some
(05:32):
of our biggest, biggest hurdles. But they've got a meaning.
They the policymakers that I used to interview, they got
to wake up a little bit and get and we need,
we need, the public need to demand new ideas about
not just regulation, but how we want to interact with
it so that it creates jobs and doesn't take them away.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Interesting and yeah, AI for a lot of people is
still very futuristic, but it is indeed here today speaking
with Kevin Serrelli, host of the podcast Hello Future, I
want to throw you a curveball, Kevin. Is something that
maybe I don't know you're a deep thinker. This is
something that I've been thinking about for a couple of days.
It came up organically on the show earlier this week,
(06:11):
and that is the question what will nostalgia look like
twenty five years from now?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
So I'm fifty six.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
When I think of nostalgia, I think of the eighties, right,
that was my coming of age decade. I was in
high school and in college, and those are the halcyon
days for me. What will kids look back on fondly
in twenty twenty five years from now.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
That's such a great question that Gen Z is the
last generation that we'll be able to remember life before
artificial intelligence. I'm a millennial. I remember, I'm that age
where I remember life before social media and cell phones,
you know, And so I think, you know, the arrival
of artificial intelligence and how it has automated everything and
(06:54):
everything that they do them they will remember the before
and after. So I think a lot of their you know,
I think a lot about the pandemic and whether or
not they will look back to Obviously it was a
horrible time, but will they look back to the time
they got to spend with their families and you know
all of that. So, but I do think to your point,
nostalgia and it's so crucial with the show and meet
(07:18):
the future of the brand and everything. I'm really inspired
by comic books and nineteen nineties action movies and the
early two thousand action movies. That's what got me hooked
on science fiction, you know, And so before it's science,
it literally is fiction. So I think that that dose
of nostalgia is something that helps us make sense of
(07:38):
the future, and it can be a compass for us
and not something that we have to long for. We
can also apply to our future as well.
I want to jump over to the Legacy Retirement Group
dot com phone line, excited to check in with Kevin Surreally.
Kevin is the host of the podcast Hello Future, which
you can hear on our iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Kevin is a futurist. Good morning, Kevin. How are you?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
I'm doing great. I hope your future is off to
a great start. It sounds like it is going to
be eighty degrees. That's wild.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
I know in late mid late October. We'll take it
in Columbus because you just never know. It's one of
those if you don't like the weather here, just wait right,
what's so talk about the podcast for thirty seconds? What
do we if we're going to hear on Hello Future.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
I'm the podcast that you listen to. I'm like the
wormhole that you go down about aliens and spaceships and
brain ships that you don't really talk about with your
work colleagues. That's the show so for and I just
interview really smart people where you know, when I was
a political journalist, I had to get out of it
because I was like, this is crazy. These all you
do is fight with people all day. But with futurism,
(00:58):
all you do is just ask quest about your crazy thoughts. So,
for example, I'm really into brain ships right now, and
everyone talks about Elon Musk and neuralink and all of
these brain ship things. And you know, my mom was
telling me, I don't want a brainship. That's scary, and
I'm like, sign me up. When can I get one?
Remember in the nineties or the early two thousands, when
you would walk down the street and you'd be like,
(01:19):
that person's had some work done, that person had a
nose job. I won't say the other type of jobs,
but you get what I'm saying. I we're truly be
asking have you had a brain job? Have you had
a brain ship implant? And I think that's awesome, right,
And so obviously there's a lot of national security concerns
about which companies are able to do that. I want
(01:42):
American companies in my brain and not China, Russia or
North Korea. But at the same time, I think we're
still a ways off from like uploading and downloading consciousness
in the short term. Why shouldn't we be able as
these early brainship tests are proving. For someone who comes
back from a conflict and loses their limb why shouldn't
we be able to put a ship in their brain
(02:04):
that gives them direct kinetic energy to be able to
move that limb. My father just had stints placed in
his heart, which is a very common procedure. That's you
know that at one point that was a groundbreaking procedure.
I'm sure a lot of your listeners know people who
have had knee surgery or knee replacements or hip replacements. Now,
why aren't we doing that same type of treatment with
(02:26):
our brain? So I think when it comes to Alzheimer's, Parkinson's,
a lot of these diseases, our technology, we're just at
the custs of having the ability to correct that with
these technology in our brain.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Kevin, do you think so? Right now?
Speaker 1 (02:38):
The brain ships are for people with some sort of disability,
right that, as you pointed out, I don't have arms,
but I use my brain to control the mouth on
my computer. Or you know, in your example, people coming
back from a military or a conflict and they use
a brain ship to help them out. Do you think
we'll get to the point where brain chips are cosmetic?
As you point out, they had a brain job where hey,
(03:01):
I just wanted to be able to make decisions faster
when I get older. Is that something that almost like
an elective surgery.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
I think that the conversation about elective brain procedures, yes,
absolutely is going to be had. And it's really seen
these conversations. And I'm not a doctor, but I report
on all of this in the newsletter and with the
Hello Future podcast. But we've seen all of these conversations
about weight loss procedures and living a better life and
losing weight, right We've seen that with thoseenpic is the
(03:31):
one that gets all the intention right now, but even
before that, it was you know, the you know, having
a surgery and whatnot. And so I absolutely think that
presentative brain care is something that's going to be in
the conversation, and in many ways it already is. I mean,
how many times you have you heard eat your vegetables
or eat this for better brain health, or do a
(03:52):
puzzle or a crossword puzzle every day for better better
brain health. We're having that conversation now, So I think
it's a really exciting time. I do not I'm not naive.
I think that there's important conversations that have to be
had around it, and we're going to have those conversations
on my show. But I'm a very optimistic about the
quality of life control. I mean, when everyone knows someone
(04:13):
who suffered from Alzheimer's or Parkinson's, it's a horrible disease.
We should be excited about trying to treat those diseases.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Interesting, And I wonder too if if AI is going
to play a role in this because we all made
we all may need brain chips, because you know, we're
all suffering to some degree from brain rots. Right, We're
spending so much time scrolling using AI. AI is doing
all the thinking for us. Now our brains are going
to atrophy. So we very well quite need, may quite
(04:42):
need those brain chips. Is AI in your view?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Kevin SURRELLI, host of the podcast Hello Future. Is AI
good or evil?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
I think it's great again. I'm an optimist because I
don't think I think, you know, the doom and gloom
that the mainstream media has put out about this is
kind of It's kind of like, Okay, we get it.
You think it's the end of the world, and it's
not the end of the world. Do you want to
live in a world without Internet? Do you want to
live in a world without If you go back to
the first Industrial Revolution. I don't know the printing press.
(05:11):
I mean like, I mean, technology has always been a
force for good. The average American interacts with space more
than two dozen times per day. So every time you're
on your phone, you're talking to satellite. There's ten thousand
satellites zooming around the planet right now. And so artificial
intelligence has an incredible opportunity to create to tackle some
(05:32):
of our biggest, biggest hurdles. But they've got a meaning.
They the policymakers that I used to interview, they got
to wake up a little bit and get and we need,
we need, the public need to demand new ideas about
not just regulation, but how we want to interact with
it so that it creates jobs and doesn't take them away.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Interesting and yeah, AI for a lot of people is
still very futuristic, but it is indeed here today speaking
with Kevin Serrelli, host of the podcast Hello Future, I
want to throw you a curveball, Kevin. Is something that
maybe I don't know you're a deep thinker. This is
something that I've been thinking about for a couple of days.
It came up organically on the show earlier this week,
(06:11):
and that is the question what will nostalgia look like
twenty five years from now?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
So I'm fifty six.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
When I think of nostalgia, I think of the eighties, right,
that was my coming of age decade. I was in
high school and in college, and those are the halcyon
days for me. What will kids look back on fondly
in twenty twenty five years from now.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
That's such a great question that Gen Z is the
last generation that we'll be able to remember life before
artificial intelligence. I'm a millennial. I remember, I'm that age
where I remember life before social media and cell phones,
you know, And so I think, you know, the arrival
of artificial intelligence and how it has automated everything and
(06:54):
everything that they do them they will remember the before
and after. So I think a lot of their you know,
I think a lot about the pandemic and whether or
not they will look back to Obviously it was a
horrible time, but will they look back to the time
they got to spend with their families and you know
all of that. So, but I do think to your point,
nostalgia and it's so crucial with the show and meet
(07:18):
the future of the brand and everything. I'm really inspired
by comic books and nineteen nineties action movies and the
early two thousand action movies. That's what got me hooked
on science fiction, you know, And so before it's science,
it literally is fiction. So I think that that dose
of nostalgia is something that helps us make sense of
(07:38):
the future, and it can be a compass for us
and not something that we have to long for. We
can also apply to our future as well.
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