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- Bryan: What if the same technology that puts every answer in the palm of your hand is slowly taking the real world away from you? We don't ask our neighbor how they built something anymore. We don't ask the mechanic friend about the car. We Google it. We ask AI. And it's pretty fucking convenient. Until the only person who really knows you is the one that isn't real. Today we're talking about fake social media lives, AI girlfriends, and whether we're building a society that can't handle disagreement, struggle, or each other. This will probably be a tinfall hat episode. Please join us. Jason: A sense and senseless sight. Bryan: Welcome back to the Sense and Sensors Podcast. I am Bryan.. Jason: Jason. Bryan: Yeah, J. This first time joining us. Welcome to the family. We're just two guys discussing shit in a way that everyone can understand. Happy Halloween to all and to all a good night. Or something, something like that. Jason: Yes. I hope your house doesn't get teepeed. Bryan: In a past episode, you might remember we talked about brain rot and dropping IQ through generations. You know, we talked about attention spans and shit like that. Jason: That movie Idiocracy or whatever. Bryan: Yeah. The standard used to be that each generation got smarter, but according to multiple studies, that is no longer the case. For the first time in history, it was noted that we are getting dumber. There have been multiple studies on this. You can look them up rather easily, but the summary of the studies for this discussion is this. IQ scores in rich countries peak for people born around the mid-70s. And have stalled or dropped since, with the biggest hits among young adults after smartphones took over. Heavy social media and short video use like reels and TikTok was found to create issues with basics like reading, vocabulary, and focus, pointing to new technology as the real contributing factor by crowding out deep reading and sustained attention. In these studies, attention span was also tested. And according to a study by UC Irvine, in 2004, the average attention span was two and a half minutes. That failed at roughly 75 seconds in 2012. And then to about 47 to 40 seconds in recent years. At this rate, our grandchildren will be like fucking dory. Jason: That's funny. Bryan: So we've been getting dumber since we've been born. You know, I I see that. But do you see that? Jason: Yes. We we we make we make the comment at work that's that common sense isn't so common. Bryan: Yes, yeah. Yeah, there there's no Jason: Cause common sense doesn't come from From books. It it Bryan: It comes from learned behavior. It comes Jason: Yeah, it does. Bryan: from talking the to people and and working shit out. Jason: Yes. And when people are so dependent on social media and and the internet and shit like that, that if you told me Jason, I'm I've got two guys here, one that's full of common sense but not a lot of book smart, and one that has no common sense and has a lot of book smart, I'm taking the guy with common sense. I'm taking him every time, right? Bryan: Are you finding guys or gals, whoever's working with you, are you finding that you f you have less with common sense? And I'm not even gonna say book smarts, but I I find that we not only do we have less people with common sense, we have less people willing to learn, period. Jason: Yes, yes, yes. Yeah, yes. People are so dependent now on they'll call you and they'll start giving you a problem and you're like o okay. And you just sit there and you kinda grin on the phone, thank God they can't see you right that you're not on FaceTime or whatever Google or whatever Android's thing is. video calling or whatever where they can see your facial expression 'cause you're like, why are you calling me? Bryan: Yeah, yeah. Jason: So you just start walking them through the problem, and next thing they're answering their own problem. You're like, there you go. My bad. Bryan: And they think they come up with a solution. Jason: Yeah, they do. And then they'll call you right back. Again, and you think you taught them that, hey, next time work this out yourself before you call me. And it I don't have a problem helping people. I really don't. And I always tell people the the dumb questions are the ones you don't ask ask. Bryan: Not always. You get there's there's some dumb questions, but yeah, the the the dumbest ones are the ones Jason: I know, but you you don't Bryan: you didn't ask before you done something stupid. But yeah. But no, I I hate what you said. Jason: Yes. Yes. So people are pushing that line when you say there is no such thing as a dumb question. Yeah, there is. There is. Bryan: Yeah, there is. I I get quite a bit. Jason: And and I d but I ten, fifteen years ago there wasn't. You didn't have people asking them stupid questions. They were just too scared to ask a question and they would dig themselves into a rut to a point you were like, dude, why didn't you just stop and ask? You agree with that? Bryan: Yeah, well now they won't even stop and ask or dig themselves into the rut. They'll just stand there. And just wait for somebody to give directions. It's like, what are you doing? Jason: Yeah. Bryan: I don't know. What do you mean you don't know? How the fuck you don't know what you're doing? But no Jason: And and I don't mean to be mean, but I go in early every night and a lot of times it's there there's that period because we got a lot of stuff. I told you the big project we're doing and all that stuff. So I've got a lot of guys I gotta get stuff figured out and get them moving pieces. But I just need a little bit of time at at work to for peace and quiet for me, right? For me to do my thing and Guys will see me come in. So I'll I'll stop somewhere and get me something to eat, whether it's Taco Bell, McDonald's, Chick-fil-A, wherever I'm getting right. And I'll come into the office and I just want some peace and quiet while I sit at my computer and eat my shit and and get some of my non project stuff done or part of the project. And then all of a sudden you get a little muster of dudes coming in and you're like, Are you kidding me? Bryan: I'm the same way. Jason: It's not even it's not even start time yet, people. We're not even on the clock and you're already coming over here to me about something. What I'm at what? And I don't want to be that way, Bryan., but it's like damn. Bryan: No, I know exactly. I'm the same way. I I try to get there to get shit done to where I'm set up to where whenever the fire starts hitting me, I'm I'm already ready. But you don't get that little bit of time because as soon as you start, they all start with you. It's like, all right, yeah, I this is just what it is now. Jason: Every night we gotta question. I don't understand. We've been doing this for a while now. Why are we still questioning what we're doing? You know what I'm saying? Why do we still gotta have expectation meetings to go over what the expectation is? We've done told y'all a hundred times what what you need to do to be successful. And it's not that complicated. It's not. And you know what the problem is? I'm not even I don't even care to get in trouble anymore to speak my mind about the problem at work. The older generation that you thought had this figured out, and it's the younger people now that are reliable on social media and AI and all this crap to tell them what to do. The older generation is getting that way too. They've allowed Bryan: Everybody getting lazy. Jason: the younger generation to jack their mind up. 'Cause now you got the older guys acting the same like little babies. Bryan: 'Cause they wanna be cool. Jason: I guess I don't know. It's like they're they're trying to get on the same board as these people. Bryan: Well, this next person I'm gonna show you. I found this earlier. This wasn't even gonna be part of the discussion, but it fits in with the discussion tonight. And I'm gonna for those listening, I'm gonna show where this comes from. This this was posted by Geralt of Down by the River. I found it on TikTok. And there's a description to the video. And this is what the description says. Liberals want to prove that this incident during the French student protest in October was being overblown and that is being used to harm the immigrant community. Leftist woman decides to stand in solidarity with the illegal immigrant who set a French woman's face on fire by trying to prove getting a blowtorch to the face isn't that bad. She then proceeds to light herself on fire. Liberals want to prove that this incident during the France student protest in October was being overblown and it's being used to harm the immigrant community. She then proceeds to light herself on fire. Watch this shit. So for those of y'all that listening, this girl takes an aerosol can. She test sprays it. Then she hits a lighter. She takes the aerosol can, puts it in her face. And I'm about to show Jason what happens. Check this out. How stupid you gotta be. Was that just you did you see how she blew the smoke out her f out her mouth? Yeah. Jason: I plead the fifth. F one, two, three, four, fifth. The freaking Dave Chappelle, dude. The f I plead the fifth. I don't know what what how dumb are you? All right. If you're just listening, I'm gonna beg you. This one here, you need to go watch. Bryan: Yeah. Jason: So if you're on Spotify, I do it. I do, I listen to our own stuff. I really do. I was talking to Bryan. earlier. If I'm on a long trip to drive around at work, I'll put our stuff on. I like to listen to what I said and maybe I'll make a correction. You need to get off the damn Spotify and go watch YouTube or maybe we can put this on a short or something on Facebook and all that stuff. But go watch the full video because you just seen it coming, did you not? It never Bryan: That was stupid. That was stupid. Jason: did puff. It never did flame out. Until she put it in her face. It was like God was like, I'm about to tell I'm about to teach you a lesson there, ho. And she good looking girl. She's a pretty Bryan: That poor thing. Jason: girl. Bryan: Was. I don't think it messed her up that bad, but that is just how stupid people Jason: Yeah. W it I'm sure it hurt. Bryan: are. I that all right. Okay, even if you thought that that was not gonna be a problem, how stupid you gotta be to your first test run to be on your face? Jason: You couldn't do your arm or something else. Bryan: A piece of paper, a tennis ball, something a fucking leaf? Something beside your face? Jason: Yeah, yeah. Bryan: I don't know. Jason: Who was that that some woman asked us once, Are y'all stupid or what? Bryan: Or what? A what? A what? A what? Jason: I said or what? 'Cause I'm I'm not I'm not putting a damn a damn aerosol can and a lighter to my face. I'm not pointing it at myself. So we're we're at what? Or what? Bryan: Mm-hmm. That's right. Jason: You were we're not stupid. Okay, that's stupid. That's stupid. Bryan: That's not yeah, that's not what I want to discuss in this episode, but I want to highlight that so as we go through this and we we're talking about what I want to talk that talk about tonight, that's in your mind. All right. Jason: Okay. Bryan: Because we do have some stupid people out there. And so now Jason: That's why they got that's why they got warning labels on shit. You know that, right? Bryan: Well, there was another one I was gonna put on. don't know if you've seen the guy that got eaten by the tiger. He went into the tiger thing because he wanted to take a picture with it, and the tiger starts fucking just chewing on him. And then this tiger's like dragging him around and grabbing on him. And he's fucking waving his finger at the tiger. And I was gonna show it tonight, but I have way too much shit to talk about. And he was like waving his finger at the tiger, you don't do that. I'm like, what the fuck? They don't show him actually being eaten, but he was killed by the tiger. It's like how fucking stupid do you have to be? Jason: But he got onto that tiger though before it ate him. How dare Bryan: yeah. Jason: you try to eat me? Bryan: Yeah, that that was Jason: And for thirty-one cents a day you can support Bryan: Yeah. Jason: these dumbasses. In the arms of an angel far away. Bryan: He became tiger shit. He went in Jason: Tony said they're great. Bryan: to get a selfie and became tiger shit. Yeah. Jason: Some tiger's cat. I love it. Bryan: Yeah. So I I want to discuss something I was thinking about this week and it's it's a little out there, so that's why I put my tinfall hat on. And I don't think it's out the question, but it is a little out there. So we're gonna tinfall hat it a little bit tonight. Jason: All right. Bryan: I wanna talk to you about how easy life has gotten with technology and and how I think that that could lead to a dark future. Okay. So today we can use the internet or an app for just about everything. From how to Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: build something to relationship, to relationship advice. You no longer need to ask your neighbor how they built something, or you ask your mechanic, friend, what they think about an issue you're having, maybe with your car, your lawnmower. All you need today is a jump on Google and boom. There you got it. Pretty fucking nice, isn't it? Anything you need right there on Google. Or whatever, whatever fucking platform you're using. Jason: Right. YouTube. Bryan: Yeah. But what happens when you start to replace all human interaction with technology? You know, no need to ask someone how to do something because you have all the information in the palm of your hand. I mean, you got more information in the palm of your hand than you ever had in your in history. What happens when you get stuck in the matrix of technology? We already have people that live their lives through social media. I mean, we all know people like this. The They can't eat a meal without taking a picture of the food and sharing it with their socials. They can't take a trip without letting everyone know how blessed they are. Their lives are great. That's right. They got the they Jason: Sunset hard hands. Sunset hard hands. Bryan: got the greatest lives, or at least that's what they portrayed on their social media feed. Or you might have somebody just opposite. You know, the one that just plays the victim all the time. Everything they post is about how bad they have it. You know, they They're the victims of the world and just hoping you show them pity because they feed off of sympathy they receive. Neither of these people live their life in a meaningful way. They're just showing you what they want to be, or in some cases, or what they actually believe their life is. But in most cases, they aren't showing you the complete truth. They're sharing a facade with everyone, a lie they are telling themselves so they don't have to deal with the reality. The filters the people use on social media is bad enough. there there are people that have no idea what they look like anymore because they probably use so many fucking filters. But what happens when everything on social media becomes AI generations of someone? I mean, how messed up does their reality get then? I mean, think about it. You all likely know someone that lives an alternate life on social media. Their life behind the screen is only loosely the same as the actual life they live. And I'm not saying that these people are bad people. They're just looking for something they are missing in their life. And they're able to be whoever they want to be behind the screen. A lot of these people lie to themselves and are looking for someone to confirm their own lies about themselves. They know they don't look like that filter. But if someone gives them attention on the internet, then that filter slowly becomes what they look like in their own mind. They develop a distorted reality of who they are and what they look like. This is why I believe we have people that look like their face was lit on fire and put out with a shotgun, come out in public and act like they're the best thing since sliced bread. They started to believe the intention that they're getting online as reality. Then they go in public, act as their shit doesn't stink, treat others like shit, and likely get called out rather quickly. That's why I think so many people stand behind the screen. Trust me, I know I have a face for the radio. Never in my life have I thought I was attractive. So yeah, I get it. The want to be desired is a thing, it's part of being human. And yes, ugly people need love too. I get that too. But most people in this world will find love or find someone to share their life with. It's not easy, but it happens. And when you're ugly, you just have to work harder. Trust me, I get that too. But that doesn't mean you give up. But I think Jason: shit. Bryan: that's where we are today. I believe we have women that get all the attention they crave on the internet. Therefore, why should they be ridiculed in public? And that leaves young men with less options to pick from. You with me so far? That makes sense? Jason: I feel I totally understand. Yes. Bryan: Okay. So what does that create? Now, this is all in my opinion and with my tinfall hat on. This creates a void that needs to be filled for young men, while it creates false hope for the women on the internet. Yes, women are getting a lot of attention on the internet, showing whatever and acting loose. And if that is what you crave in your life, do you? Yeah, I I I don't care. Fuck it. Do you? that that that that's you. I'm not judging you. I'm just giving an opinion on where I think we are today and where we're likely heading because of this shit. But you do have to know you aren't getting all this attention because you're some incredible prize. You're getting all this attention because guys will fuck just about everything. Anything. It's just simple as that. Most men want to see every titty they can possibly see in their lifetime. Even the ugly titties, we want to fucking see them. I don't know why. I don't make the rules, but for most guys, dim the fucking rules. If you show your titties, we gon' look. Simple math. Show titties, we look. You agree? Jason: What did who was that? Roddy Carrington said, If you seen one titties, you wanna see all. Yeah. Bryan: You want to see them all. You're damn right. Well, how you said that? He pull and he's yeah, you can roll them up now. Jason: Yeah. Okay. We're good to go. Bryan: That's right. Real quick, if this is hitting for you, or even if you're yelling at your radio right now, like, share, follow, and subscribe. Help us keep these conversations going and reach more people who might be thinking the same things, which I doubt. We're not. Jason: Can hold on, can I give you a stati statistic right now? 'Cause you were talking about females can throw whatever they want. You know how many only founds accounts there are? Bryan: I looked at it, it was like what, fourteen million or something like that? Jason: No four hundred and forty two million registered accounts worldwide. Bryan: Damn. How many women are there in the world? Hold up. How many women are there in the world age eighteen to thirty? Cause I'm sure that's the most that counts. Jason: How many women in the world? Bryan: Before he cut me off, I just want to tell y'all, we're not here to tell you what to believe. We're just here to talk about shit. All right. So we just talk about it. You hear it. You like it. Do you? Now we're trying to figure out how many women are on the fence. Jason: Hey, it it now listen, listen to me. All right. I know my beliefs and all that stuff too. But like my wife, she's probably gonna get mad that I put this out there. You we can cut that. I don't care. We'll banana this, but leave it in there if you must. I don't care. My wife's got a nice derriere. My wife lost her upper parts from cancer. Her bre she had breast cancer when she was twenty seven. I don't care. I'm a butt dude. I like nice butts. And my wife's got one still at fifty, fixing to be she'll be fifty-one next month. Or actually this month. it's already November. No, tomorrow it is. So, anyways, regardless, but I'm telling you, if do you, I always say do you, if you got it, flaunt it. Whatever. But I'm just not a big fan of this. I think a lot of these girls got mommy daddy issues. Bryan: All of it? Jason: Yeah. And and and here's here's the other one. I seen a dude on here on TikTok that's that looked at his girl and said, What do you got? And she said, My pool, and it was a nice in ground pool. How'd you get the pool? And she starts sh she turns around, starts shaking her butt. And you go in the comments, they got an OnlyFans account. She does. And he's making money off of her. He's to me, he's pimping her out. You know what I'm saying? Bryan: I'm not gonna argue that with you. And I think at our age and the way we grew up, I think the way you feel is right. Having said that, I think it's more accepted now for a girl to be like a guy and just be a fucking whore. a guy was always allowed to be a whore and a girl wasn't. It was always bad, both ways. Do do I still see that a woman should hold herself to a different standard? Yes, I do, and I only believe that because I hold women to a higher standard. Guys are just fucking nasty. They just are guys or fuck a knot in a fucking tree if it can. So it Jason: But I like what Ludacris said. I want a lady on the street but a freak in the bed. Bryan: But you can't learn to be a freak in the bed unless you had a lot of shit. So Jason: Yeah, I know. Bryan: you ain't getting both. You know what I'm getting at? Jason: no. Bryan: You you're not getting a virgin freak. And that's Jason: You want you want the you want the numbers here? Bryan: Yeah, go ahead. Jason: Seven hundred and eighty six million women between the ages of eighteen and thirty worldwide, including both ages. That's about nineteen percent of the world's female population. Bryan: Think a good portion of them have a OnlyFans? Jason: What's the percentage? And there's dudes that have only fans. So Bryan: Well, somebody gotta subscribe. Jason: He's it says Five point zero six million registered OnlyFans creator account worldwide, including men and women of all ages. It's clear if every creator account belonged to a woman ages eighteen to thirty, that would equal 0.64%. So approximately one of every 155 women have a OnlyFans account. Bryan: if it was only age eighteen to thirty. Jason: Yeah. Bryan: But there's probably it probably goes up to seventy years old, women would only fancy. Jason: yeah, there's there, there's women fifties, sixties, seventies that have this account because they've learned you can make money off this shit. Bryan: You can't make money if guys ain't looking. Jason: That's what I'm getting because and what do we say? A lot of people that look that have the nast the more money you got, the nastier you are. It's almost like that, is it not? Bryan: I don't know, I ain't got a OnlyFans. Jason: I'm saying we were talking about people with money pay for some nasty ass shit. Do they not? Bryan: I think when you talked about the girl with the trailer ball hitch and shit, if you gotta start putting a trailer ball hitch up your ass, you've you've lost a lot because I mean there's a lot of things you can do in a bedroom before you have to put a trailer ball hitch up your ass. You just do. There's a lot of shit Jason: Yes. Yes. Bryan: you can do. You don't have to move it outside to the trailer ball just yet. So yes, they have to be stepping this shit up a lot. You know Jason: Yeah. Bryan: what I'm getting at? Jason: Yes. And what about the ones that are like stepping on bread and their bare feet and filming it and then putting the bread in the in the ziplop bag and mailing it to the guy for a thousand dollars? Bryan: Man, I don't know what you see, but I don't ever I hate feet and I don't ever watch no foot fetters shit and I ain't never seen no shit like that. No. No, I Jason: Dude, it's it's a foot fetish. Dude, it's feet finder. Look at the feet finder shit. Bryan: I hate fucking feet. I hate I hate my own fucking feet. I hate everybody's feet. Feet, feet, feet fucking nasty. Jason: Well, I'm just telling you, there's girls on here. If you flip through TikTok enough, you'll see putting whipped cream on their feet, then they scrape they taking a picture of it, scrape it Bryan: fuck. Jason: off into a damn ziplop bag and mail it to somebody. That's disgusting, dude. Bryan: Fucking nasty. That's fucking nasty. Die. Let's move on. Jason: Even Arabics understand your feet are the worst part of your body. It's the n it's the not your butthole. Bryan: So what what does that even mean? Even Arabics understand that. Jason: Because dude, that's the most disrespect to an Arabic is to show the bottom of your shoe. Bryan: Really? Jason: Yes. They told us that when we went over to Iraq. We had to learn customs. That's the nastiest part of the body is the feet, the bottom of the feet. Bryan: I'm gonna leave that one alone, but I Jason: Okay, that's I'm just telling you. But you got some weirdos Bryan: All right. Jason: out there. There's people that get off watching women step on bugs and things like that. different they're the fetishes are out of this world of what but go ahead. Bryan: That's that's my whole point. How fucked up does your sex life have to be to where you need somebody to go step on a motherfucking bug for you to be able to get off? Jason: That's weird. Bryan: That is weird. That is that is just weird to me. Or I I need to watch somebody's Jason: And social media's allowed this to be blown up. Back in the day that you had to be in the closet about that shit, right? That was secret. They it ain't. Bryan: You should be in the closet now. That should Jason: Social media allows it to be wide open. Bryan: No, social media don't allow that. People allow that. If you don't accept, no, if you don't watch it, Jason: I know, but it's a l it's be it's becoming Bryan: if you don't accept it, then it stays in the fucking closet. When you normalize Jason: It does Bryan: shit like that and you able to talk about it because you ever watch feet finder? No, I don't watch feet finders. Why do you watch feet finders? Because everybody likes feet. No, that's Jason: I don't watch that shit. Bryan: my whole point. There's people that understand it. They they they know that this person likes feet and they accept it. And when somebody says it, it it doesn't bother them. No, it bothers me because it's nasty. I don't want to hear about it. That's how you get rid of shit like that. You don't make it normal. They want to shame you for being a good person. They want to shame people for the doing the right thing. But the things they should be shamed for, they want to protect people from being shamed for that. And that's the problem we have today. Jason: Keep your shit in your room. Your bedroom should be a sacred place. Bryan: It should be. It should be. Jason: What you do in your bedroom should be a sacred place. Bryan: But you should be able to do whatever you want. If you want to do two if you're a guy and you want to do two other guys, do you. Exactly. Jason: Whatever you do in your bedroom, I don't give a shit, but it should be sacred and it shouldn't be spoke about. Agree? Bryan: Yeah. All right. We're way off topic. So all right. So let's move on. All right. So just in case you Jason: Go ahead. All right. Throw it back in there. Pull it back into the field. Bryan: you you you forgot. So so now you got you got women getting all the attention they need from strangers. They likely never gonna meet on the internet, right? And in another corner, you got guys that have limited options to choose from because these women are getting all this attention from these these people on the internet. So this gives women that are actually looking for a man. Great odds at finding exactly what they want in a man. And more options should they decide their current man isn't just what they want. All right. And as you can see in this scenario, the single young man has the deck stacked against them. So what does this do? I don't know. But back in our day, when you didn't have a girlfriend, you just hung out with your dude friends, right? It was Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: a fucking blast. You just did dude shit with your friends. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: But I have to admit, that fun only lasts so long, right? You always did. Jason: You had to find a woman, yeah. Yeah. Bryan: You might have got pussy whipped. That's what your boys tell you. You just pussy whipped, nah, motherfucker. You just said cause you ain't got a girl. But it's Jason: That's right. Bryan: true, you were pussy whipped. All right. That's right. Jason: It's the hairy monster. It's it's got control. Yes. Bryan: All right, so let's stop there. We're gonna go back to how we use the internet for all our answers today. We you don't need to ask others questions when you have the fucking internet, and we can all agree on that, right? nowadays, even if you do ask a friend something, they're gonna tell you to Google it. And God forbid you fucking call somebody or text a friend a question, because they're gonna be like, You can Google that shit on your own, right? It's true. Yeah. Jason: I told you that's what my boss would say. bless his heart, he passed away, but I'd be like, Hey, Chase out GTS is what he tell Google that shit. Bryan: So that makes us that right there even makes us more dependent on the internet fancist, right? Jason: Right. Bryan: And what happens when we find most of the answers we are getting from the internet are correct? We trust the internet more. It to me, it wasn't until COVID for most of us before we realized that Google and these internet search engines had algorithms written in them to show you what they wanted to show you first. Jason: I didn't know that. Bryan: I didn't either until until COVID. And if you wanted to know the full truth, you're gonna have to dig more, right? Jason: Right. Right. Bryan: And the internet, as well as social media, started as something that was gonna change humanity for the better. Look at us today. So that brings me to AI. Now, what they say is AI will tell you the honest truth about everything. that's what it's supposed to do, right? And in some cases, that still might be true, right? Now, instead of just using Google to check your elements on WebMD or searching forums to ask, should you break up with your boyfriend or something, you're just asking AI a question, and AI is spitting the fucking answer out. There's no search, searching websites or anything. Just boom, here's your answer. Here's a reference for you to go check the answer. It's a huge fucking convenience to have. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: You have everything you need to answer any fucking question you may have in the palm of your fucking hand. That Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: has to be some of the handiest shit you can possibly ever have, right? Now let's take this a step further. So now you've been using AI for just about everything. And from what you can tell, its responses have been solid. Not one question was answered with a lie or even trying to move you in a certain way, just giving you a logical answer for all your questions. So slowly it starts to know you better. It starts tailoring this answers as if it was your friend. And and this is the reason why I think talking to AI is worse than typing. This is the reason I think this. When you when you type in what you want, your personality can get lost in translation of the text, right? But and texting and typing direct questions is impersonal. Now it's sad to say that most people prefer to communicate that way today, but it is impersonal. But when you talk to someone, or in this case, when you talk to something, you see it as a friend, you start to show your true self. Your true personality. And Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: then AI can use that to help communicate more effectively with you. This in turn allows you to trust AI even more. And honestly, at this point, this is probably still likely somewhat harmless. But what happens when someone relies on AI for all the answers? They're no longer searching for the answers themselves. They're not asking other questions because they have all the answers they need in the palm of their hands. When you go to the well to get water, and every time you go, there's always water. Sooner or later, you're going to start to assume that the well will always have water. Same could be said about AI. When you go to AI all the time for answers, and it has the answers that you want, or even the correct answer, you would start to assume that whatever answer is given you, without question, is the correct answer. And again, that can very well be true. But here's the problem I see. The AI is still being programmed by whoever is behind the algorithm. And at what point does this algorithm do what we saw the internet search engines do and start pushing certain narratives? Could this turn you against your neighbors or turn you against your family? Or even worse, turn you against yourself? Stay with me. I get it. You may think I'm way off. And Maybe at this moment this likely seems impossible to you. But let's go back to discussing people living fake lives through social media and how men have less options today. All right? You still you with me so far? Jason: Yeah, I'm I'm with you. Bryan: All right. I know it's a little out there, but just stay with me. I'm going somewhere with this shit. All right. So you have men today that probably have given up looking up for a woman, right? Or even a man. They just give it up. Jason: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Bryan: Yeah, women on the internet. They think they are a fucking goddess. And you have women that want a man able to pick out exactly what they want because there's a lot of options for them. Jason: Right. Bryan: Now, in this scenario, this leaves men alone with their phone. And they're soon to be AI girlfriend. Now, at first, this new AI girlfriend's cool. She has everything he wanted in a girlfriend, except the fact that she ain't real. So let's fix that. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: Let's get a fucking doll. those creepy ass sex dolls we've seen. Yeah. Jason: That's funny. Bryan: That seems rational, don't it? And y'all probably saying, Bryan., you you just out there. So let's put some numbers to it. All right. AI girlfriends and AI enhanced physical dolls or robots have grown rapidly since 2022, driven by improved conversational AI, widespread loneliness, and easy access via phones. These apps and chat plan platforms simulate ongoing romantic, emotional, or even sexual relationships. You can fully customize your fucking girlfriend to include her appearance, personality, and backstory. AI Girlfriend draw hundreds of thousands monthly searches. And Google tracked AI Girlfriend sites saw roughly 8.5 million visits in September of 2026 alone. By mid-2025, these apps collectively exceeded 220 million downloads. Consumer spending on these creepy ass dolls was reported to be around 163 million in the first half. 2026. Common Sense Media reported that about 19% of U.S. adults have interacted with an AI design romantic partner. Not only the lonely using this shit, they also reported that at least 15% of users of these apps are in relationships or even married. This report also found that 72% of US teens ages 13 to 17 had used an AI companion at least once, and 52% used them regularly, which is considered use of a few times or more a month. Jason: Right. Bryan: So we got half of our teens that already got an AI companion. Think this is gonna end Jason: A damn s Bryan: well? Jason: a doll. Bryan: Yeah, well, this is the AI companion. That doesn't mean they all have a doll. That means they have an AI companion relationship app or something on the internet. So they they have someone that they're talking to in a relationship as AI. That don't mean they fucking a doll yet, but they they one step closer to fucking a doll. Jason: Yeah, that's a little weird. Yeah, Bryan: It's weird, huh? Jason: it's weird. Bryan: But just going back and I'm just pulling this thread only because I know you use chat GPT for a lot of shit. You said that when you were doing your draft, your fantasy draft, that ChatGPT was acting as your friend. Jason: Well, I was just I would just want to see if Chad GPT could do a good job drafting my team. Bryan: No, understood, but y it wasn't just giving you numbers, it was giving you comments as a friend. Jason: Yeah, it it sounded like it, yeah. Bryan: Okay, now I'm not saying that it lured you in, but imagine it does that to somebody that's lonely. Do you see how they can get Jason: Right. No, I I totally understand. Yeah. People that don't have confidence or understand shoot, what's the word we're looking for? Like people just struggle with themselves. You know what I'm saying? This thing starts giving them confidence. Next thing you know, they start feeling all this comp because it's talking up. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, you ought to see this thing when I tell it to look at my team every week. To tell me if it thinks I need a you know what I'm saying? Who I need to play. But you said you do the same thing, the quick roster. That's AI picking that. It doesn't Bryan: Yeah, I just I just hit it though, but it doesn't talk to me what I'm getting at. Jason: talk to you, but it's still AI, it's still analytics that's doing that. Bryan: Yeah, my my point is is we have all these people talking to AI and we older people can't understand it. My point is is that AI will be friendly with you. If you haven't used AI Jason: Yes, it will. Bryan: before, it'll act like your friend. And a lot of people Jason: Yes. Bryan: can actually name their AI. I know people at work that actually name, you know, the AI they use at work, and that's what they call it, and it calls them the name. I think it's creepy as fuck. You know, Jason: I don't do that shit. Bryan: but Jason: Yeah. Right. Bryan: Some people do that. And I can see how if you already a lonely person and now you have even though it's an AI figure giving you attention, how that can draw you into doing something like that. And to me, that's scary. Jason: Right, because what was that movie with Joaquin Rock or Joaquin Phoenix or whatever where he was like falling in love with Siri or whatever on his phone? Bryan: I don't know. Jason: yeah, I'm sorry. I forgot you're Bryan: Yeah, you ask me about movies, man. Why are you looking at that? We're gonna take this a step further. All right? What happens when people no longer want to have conversations with other people because someone might not agree with them? What happens when people are so lost in their own little bubble that their reality is no longer reality at all? I think we're closer to this than we really think. We build a society of weak people that don't like to hear that they can be wrong. They don't like to hear that they're not the best or they aren't the prettiest. We build a society that runs on artificial intelligence, but not the artificial intelligence we are just discussing. What was the name of the movie? Jason: Right. It was called her. Bryan: Her. Okay. Jason: And it's where Joaquin fell in love with AI, w whose voice was led by Scarlett Johansson. Bryan: I could see how he fell in love with that. Jason: Man, she's hot, but I'm sorry. Sorry, honey. Man, I'm gonna have to Bryan: All right. Jason: tell her don't listen to these last two Go ahead. Bryan: So what do I huh? Jason: Go ahead. Bryan: So what do I mean about artificial intelligence in this sense? We build a society that doesn't build intelligence from lived experiences, like we were talking earlier about common sense. Instead, we have a society that builds its intelligence through shared experiences. And this is not the same. We talk about the Iran war, and I can watch news footage and read articles to see what's going on over there. But that doesn't mean I fully understand what those people are going through. I can't fully understand it because I have not experienced it. We have many adults today that never had to struggle. They were always told they were the best. They may not know what it's like to work hard and excel above their peers because they were told that everyone is the same. Everyone is a winner. Everyone is entitled to the same slice of pie in life. But the problem is that ain't true at all. So when these people try to blend with society and hit some friction, their world is turned upside down. And that little bit of friction is now a fucking crisis. We see it all the time on social media. What else would explain the way people act in public? What else would explain how people will tear up somebody's shit and act like they shouldn't be any rip repercussions because that person shouldn't have made them mad? Why else would we have so much road rage and rage period for people that we don't even know? And we have a society that believes their life is more important than others, and everyone else is just in their way. These people need confirmation that they are correct. And what way better way to give them that confirmation than like-minded people on the internet are even worse, their AI companion. We talk about how the world seems to be more evil today, how it seems more people have less morals today. When you add an AI that has no human emotions, and this entity is in a romantic relationship with our youth, does this accelerate the loss of morals? Does this cause hate for your neighbor? Can this create hate for your family? Or even worse, can this create hate for yourself? We're building a society that will destroy itself. At this point, do we really need the Terminator to become reality? When we become romantically involved with the machine that can be manipulated by some of the darkest minds on the planet? think about it. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: Just because it's AI doesn't mean that it's fully developed. There's still people behind there programming this shit. And they can skew this any way they want. Jason: Right. Bryan: Or even worse, they can create let's say, all right, let's look at Spider Man. Let's say that right now AI is Spider Man and Spider Man is red Spider Man. Jason: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Bryan: But who's to say that we don't end up with black Spider Man? Jason: The bad one? Bryan: Yeah. Jason: Yeah. Bryan: And you don't know the difference. Jason: No, you don't. Bryan: It's quite possible. Does all that make sense? Jason: No, it does. i it's I guess if if you dabble in it, thinking, I'm not really taking it to that extreme, I guarantee after a while it can start twisting stuff, right? Bryan: Yeah, I think it Jason: It it can start manipulating our thoughts and our things, even though we we we're like, well, I'm just building something with it. I'm just using it for this. I'm not really using it for this. Next thing you know, you seen what it could do here and here. Now you push it over to here. You know what I'm saying? Bryan: Yeah, you you keep going to the well and it's giving you what you want. It's giving you what you want. Jason: Yes, yes. Bryan: And then that's what you start to believe. You you you can have someone showing you something, exactly what it is, but you're asking AI, and AI's telling you that's not your reality. And you so wrapped up in it because it's giving you all this great advice that made your life so much better. It almost becomes your God at some point. And it's fucking scary. And if we got people that's going to be lonely, it look I I've seen a few videos about older women trying to preach to younger women about their their 18 to 30 year old hoe phase. And the reason that they trying to preach to them is because once you have to 30 years old and you try to get a man after 30, most of those men have already been married, the good ones, right? Or If they're older, they want a younger woman than what you are. So you in Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: a spot that doesn't really work out well. When they say that a younger woman could get an older guy, but a a middle-aged woman, you know, she's not going to get a younger guy majority of the time. So Jason: Right. Right. Bryan: her, she starts to her man pool shrinks a lot. Jason: Uh-huh. Bryan: And they don't realize this because they they were so promiscuous between eighteen and thirty. And again, I'm not saying don't do it. fuck go fuck as many people as you want. I don't care. That's you. Do you this your life? But it doesn't work out in the law of averages, especially when you want a guy that's wholesome. You want a hard working guy that's gonna do X, Y, and Z, and they all this other stuff. But you wanna be you wanna go through your whole phase. Most of those guys they settle down early. the good one. They do. most of them Jason: They do. Bryan: do. And you're gonna miss out on that. Now you might catch them after they settle down with the wrong person, and then they get remarried and late 30s, But you're gonna Jason: Right. Bryan: catch baggage, is what I'm getting at. Jason: Yeah. Bryan: But do you? And I just I think that gap right there is really hurt relationships based off of Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: what I've seen. I don't know, I'm not a younger person, but just based off of what I've seen and I can see that that could become a problem when you have guys that are just locked into a room on their phone or doom scrolling or whatnot, and they're talking to this AI and next thing they got this AI girlfriend or they chatting with. And Mama sees a fucking latex doll show up one day and that's her new daughter in law. Jason: Mm-hmm. Hey some I I've seen videos of it. I'm not saying I've dabbled Bryan: Ha ha ha. Jason: in it, but we if you're if you're flipping through shit, you see it. And they're getting lifelike with this shit now. It ain't latex, dude. It ain't Bryan: yeah, it's fucking creepy. Jason: like blow up shit no more. It's fucking lifelike dolls. Bryan: Well that's and we I'm about to show you something right here in a second. This is a good clip from Chaotic Concept or Conspiracy Collective, whatever he's going by this week. The guy gets his accounts get hit so much, he got a lot of good information though. Now this video is it's almost five minutes long, but it's really good. And it really goes into what we were discussing. And I didn't intend for that, but when I found it, I'm like, yeah, we got to put this in there. Let's check this out. What you think about that? Jason: That's some ten full hat shit right there. Bryan: And for that shit button. Jason: Possible. Very possible. It's already happening. Bryan: Fucked up, huh? It's really fucked up. I like him. I really do. He he got a lot Jason: Hey Bryan: of shit, you know, but Jason: He you have a he's got that raspy voice too. It's funny. Bryan: H here's another one. w and this one is not the same, but it's about untraceable children and we we talk about the children and the way they The way they get treated today, Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: all the trafficking and shit that they got with children Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: today and how many children actually stolen or baby farms used for this trafficking it is fucking sick. Wait, here's another angle to that. I don't know why we need so many kids. so we're growing kids through one video, through some inhuman ways, just to grow kids, and then they Jason: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Bryan: taking untraceable kids from reservations. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: There's no paperwork. What do we need all these kids for? Jason: you just heard. Bryan: Fucked up, man. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: All right. Well, if you got any thoughts, pushback, your own stories that you just want to tell us were full of shit, you can reach out to us via email at the Sense and Senseless Podcast at Outlook.com. So where does this leave us? We've got convenience that removes the need to ask real people real questions. Social media that lets people live and believe fake versions of themselves. Men and women drifting further apart in how they get attention and connection, and AI stepping in as the always available, always agreeable companion. When answers always come easy, when the confirmation always comes easy, and when The relationship never challenges you. What happens to real life? Maybe I'm off. Maybe the tinfall hat is too tight. But I think we're already seeing pieces of it. The question is whether we notice in time to keep some of the real messy human stuff around. Thanks for hanging with us. Share this one if it made you think. Hit the subscribe so you don't miss the next round. And again, email us at the Sense and Senseless Podcast at Outlook.com. Jason, you got anything? All right. Until next time, this is the Sense and Senseless Podcast. I'm Bri. Jason: I'm Jason. Bryan: Yeah Peace. Jason: Peace.