Ken Goldberg
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221 appearances
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3 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 7 May
Ken Goldberg’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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No, I didn't say that. Somehow, I can't remember actually the language, but I wasn't saying I'm going to hit you, but I was going to basically say, I'm going to come back. I'm going to fight this. Yeah, I'm not a pushover.
I learned that the best way to deal with them was to stand up to them, even if they were bigger than you, and then oftentimes, they would cave in.
You only had to kind of do it once or twice. Oh, that's interesting because there was a big reputation thing. It was very weird. You had this whole pecking order. And so people knew not to mess with you. And you had to be in a few fights and then people would lay off. Yeah, then you could exist.
Yeah, because my mom was an artist. She would paint, and she took us to this art school in the neighboring town, and I really loved that. They were both into modern art and would take us to museums, like in New York or in Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Museum, I have very fond memories. They discouraged you from pursuing that.
Yeah, I remember talking to my mother and saying, I think I'm going to major in art. And she said, oh, great, you can major in art after you finish your engineering degree. Sure, sure, sure.
Well, it was also because my parents had a lot of financial troubles growing up. And so it was hard because there were times when we didn't go on vacation for many years. I want to be really careful because I don't want to sound like we were suffering, like there was some real poverty out there and we weren't facing that. But we had money problems and my mom and dad would fight a lot about that.
And I'll come over and I'll be like, what does it cost? And she'll be like, oh. She's like, I don't know.
Yeah. She's evaluating if it's beautiful. But the first thing I'm looking at is the price. Before I try something on, I want to know if I could even afford it. Right.
Probably, but it's still in that mind.
No, no, it's true. Another pet peeve is if I'm in a hotel or something and you know how they charge like $20 for a Diet Coke?
And then they deliver it and it's an additional delivery charge and a tip on top of it. Yeah. And then it comes, you're going to give a tip on top of that.
Are you a double major too?
I know, but that's the way it is. This language is madness. I know, but it is Edinburgh.
No, no, no, you're absolutely right. But I'm glad you brought that up because that was a huge turning point in my life. Yeah, tell me, where in this eight-year schooling? My junior year abroad, and also my dad was very sick. He had gotten leukemia because he had the plant that was a lot of toxic chemicals and stuff. But then he got remission, so he was feeling better.
19.
I remember that distinctly because I remember saying, I'm 19 years old and I'm on my own. And I had a backpack and the Let's Go Europe, this big volume. And it was my Bible. And I would just travel as much as I could. Yeah, you're around the train schedule.
One of the highlights was going to Morocco. Back to your continent of birth. Oh. It's very interesting you say this because this is the story I always like to tell, which is that basically we have some friends that said, let's go somewhere really exotic. We'll go to Morocco. It was over Christmas. And we went to Spain, Madrid. And then we were taking the train down.
And on the train, it was like all these soldiers, everybody was drunken. And it was really super fun. And we're having this blast going to the last stop. And it was packed. When we get there, we get on the ferry and we all have to turn in our passports for processing. And my mother had warned me. She said, you're going to Morocco, but you're Jewish. It's an Arab country and you should be careful.
But I was like, oh, that's ridiculous. And so we get off the ferry and all my friends, there were about three or four of us. They had gotten their passports. I didn't get mine. So we're waiting. And then it got stretched into like 45 minutes. And I was like, listen, guys, I think there's going to be a problem. Go ahead. I'll just go back. But I was definitely queasy about what would happen.
Yeah, because you're already now on the side. We were on the other side, but we're still on the ferry because we can't get off without the passports. So then this door opens. I'll never forget this. I can see it like it was yesterday. Across the back of the ferry, I see this guy walking over. He's like in a full keffiyeh headdress, very Arab looking. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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