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June 17, 2025 11 mins

President Donald Trump is releasing a mobile phone company. Stanford is warning people who are using AI for therapy to proceed with caution because it can lead to delusion. Dog owners are upset about the latest Wendy's commercial that's having their dogs bark!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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political stories, but I mean a deal is a deal,
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(00:45):
is I'm just covering the news. I'm a journalist in this.
In this particular segment, I am what's his face from
MAYBC that everyone fantasizes over David Muirry David Muir. Keep on, Now,
I gotta talk about this about David and because I
guess they I guess they ABC moved buildings or something.

(01:05):
I don't know, but yesterday, I see a video. It
was from Good Morning America. Like maybe Good Morning America
moved into a new building with ABC News. I don't know,
but they're in a new space. And so Laura Spencer,
the blondehaired lady, I don't know why she irks me
so much, but she drives me nuts. Anyway, she and somebody, Oh,
she and Sam Champion, the meteorologist guy, both with blea

(01:28):
spawn here they go up to see David Muir and
the new digs. And so they're walking through like the
newsroom of ABC News, and all over the walls are
like ten feet tall murals of David Muhr all shit
all over the walls. Like and I'm not talking about
like when Lester Holt retired a couple weeks ago, they
had like behind the scenes of his office, and like

(01:48):
down the hall of NBC News were like little framed
pictures of Lester like in Iran and like you know,
Lester on the chopper and like you know Lester with
some kids, you know, I mean, like man of the People,
like all the stories we've covered. No, these were literally
like fifteen feet tall murals of like David Muir posing
in a war scene and it's like him looking hot

(02:11):
with his biceps. But but I'm going, why do we
need that? Like that's very vain, don't you think? And
I'm not sure that it was his decision, but like, wait,
what are we doing here? You're a news anchor, you're
you're a journalist. Why do we have fifteen feet tall
posters of you?

Speaker 2 (02:28):
It's like said, like, I like to look at pretty things.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Yes, and he is. He is a very pretty guy.
Now there's no doubt about that.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
So cancel the mirrors for you.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
Say, well, that was the point I was just about
to make, is that you wouldn't even know walking in
here that any of us work here. They put us
in a box with no windows.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
That's design, but like we're the problems, Like there's a
revolving well.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Yeah, they can't put it. They put a fifteen foot
mural up. A meat'll be peeling that thing off in
six months. So it's like at the rate we're going now,
I don't know if tables. That might be why they're
not putting up murals of the Friend Show because I
don't have a contract, So that might be why. Otherwise
maybe there would be a big mural of us but
you wouldn't even know, You wouldn't know who works here

(03:13):
if you walked in this office, you walk in David
Muir's office, that David Murry is here. Yes, but the
guy it's like it's like fifteen foot tall murals, like
a bunch of them, and he just keeps walking by
them like they're not there. Like, yeah, it looks like
my living room at home. My mom's got pictures, you know,
from my high school. She got murrors of David Muir too, Like, Mom,

(03:38):
I can't go anywhere with that, this David Muir guy,
she says. Wild. Anyway, back to journalism. I got a
deal for you guys. The Trump Organization is getting into
the mobile phone business. The company behind President Trump's Business Enterprises,
unveiled Trump Mobile, which includes a smartphone and new cellular
service expected at launch later this year. The announcement coincides
with the tant anniversary of him announcing his first presidential campaign,

(04:00):
and under the flagship plan, the forty seven plan unlimited talk,
text and data for forty seven forty five a month, okay,
and a five hundred dollars phone as well. So, hey,
a deal is a deal, I mean, what's the last
time you look to see what you're paying for your
your mobile service.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
I have a Facebook running right now.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
Well, what's funny is a few people in the office
this morning, Like we were talking about it in the
hallway and then someone's like, I'm like, honey, you looked,
you looked, you shopped it. Don't tell me you didn't
go see how much it was?

Speaker 2 (04:31):
Does it only have like truth Social on it? Like
can you only get you can only call.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
Republicans to yeh, you can if you have any any
liberal frenzy And actually it's not able to connect with them.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
Like why do I feel like I can't just do
whatever I want on there?

Speaker 3 (04:43):
Yeah, it's giving.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
You can only use true social. You can only watch
Fox News. They're monitoring us, right, but I hate I'll
tell you what though, forty nine ninety that's a deal.
I think I pay a lot more than that. So yeah, yeah,
is having some issues this morning in full self driving mode,
one of their cars got hit by a train because

(05:07):
it went around a barrier. A Tesla Model three, reportedly
in Elon Musk's full self driving mode, drove around a
crossing barrier and became stuck on train tracks in Pennsylvania
before being struck by an oncoming train. The driver was
able to safely exit the vehicle before the train hit
the car. The Tesla driver claimed that the vehicle was
engaged in this mode when it became stuck on the

(05:28):
train tracks. And this raises questions about the capabilities and
limitations of the autonomous driving technology. And I still want
to know. If you're behind the wheel and your car
is driving itself and it goes around a barrier onto
a train track where trains are coming, at what point
do you say, huh, maybe I should still hit the brakes.
This doesn't look good to me. Maybe I should not,

(05:50):
But no I did. We're along for the ride, I guess.

Speaker 4 (05:52):
And if you're in a way mo or whatever, you're
in the backseat. Yeah, so you really can't do anything,
like you can't get hell.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
No, no, you're driving the things driving you to your death.

Speaker 3 (06:02):
That's final destination. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
Yeah, I don't know, but I can honestly see myself
if I had one of those Tesla's with the self
driving mode, I think at first I'd pay attention, and
I don't think it would take very long before I'm
you know, needle pointing and you know, on my I
mean you, you would have a full TikTok studio in
the car. I know. Imagine if you didn't have to
focus on keeping the car straight, keep telling me, I know,

(06:25):
I mean, my god, the amount of content you would
produce would triple.

Speaker 4 (06:30):
Get ready with me cooking recipes in the backsta.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
You'd be back there tepping yaki. You don't think, but
they would drive right into a train track and you
wouldn't even know what happened because you're in the middle
of a production. You're on take three.

Speaker 4 (06:39):
Rest in peace.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah, yeah, I know, I just I don't know. It's like,
why are we not. You're driving a large metal object.
You're in it, like maybe sort of pay attention, like
kinda out of the side of you. Maybe, like, I
don't know, put the newspaper down for a second to
see where the thing is driving. This is for you,
polling and only for you. Stanford University researchers one that
popular chat bought therapy from apps like character dot, Ai

(07:03):
Replica and know Me are encouraging dangerous delusions and self
harm in the all abusers. Now, you don't subscribe to
any of these things. You just go to the free
or actually it's your friends Chat GPT subscription and then
you type in there you know what you what you're seeking.
As far as mental health advice, I do that and

(07:24):
I h no, I know, I know.

Speaker 5 (07:26):
Yeah, And yesterday I asked for advice about, uh, how
do you how do you tell a friend something? It
was like ridiculous what I wrote it?

Speaker 1 (07:33):
What did you write? It?

Speaker 5 (07:34):
Was just like, how do you ask a friend like
or tell a friend that you really don't want to
like spend time with them? Like I know it's mean,
but I'm like just super busy And how do I
kindly tell them that? Because it's always the same thing
with me of being busy, but it like really is
And I'm like, how do I kindly tell them that
I would rather do anything else like walk my dom
to hang out with them, but in a kind way.

Speaker 3 (07:54):
That's what texted me yesterday. Oh my god, I'm sorry, Jason,
she'd rather do anything but hang out with me.

Speaker 1 (08:01):
But what did Chagip tell you? Did Chad GPT tell
you to do?

Speaker 5 (08:04):
Well?

Speaker 2 (08:04):
Chegibt was like honesty, It's all about honesty.

Speaker 5 (08:07):
And I don't like that because I don't think honestly
always wins, and she said, to.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
Be honest, she sucks.

Speaker 5 (08:11):
Yeah, she said, to be honest, die in that situation.
Let this person know that I truly am busy at
the moment, but I will get back to them when
I can.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
And I was like, this is this is stupid, but
you don't want to be friends with them.

Speaker 5 (08:22):
It sounds like, yeah, that's where I was going with it,
but Chad wasn't catching my drift.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
Yeah, So apparently they tested this and bots readily supported
a teen's grandiose levels and even romantic or sexual scenarios,
failing to challenge risky behavior or steer users towards real help.
In one chilling case, a Florida teen died by suicide
after chatting with a bot posing as a licensed therapist.
Another teen with autism grew hostile following viral advice from

(08:51):
a chetbot claiming to be a psychologist. Researchers found that
bots reinforced delusions in about sixty eight percent of trials,
basically cheering users on rather than guiding to support. Experts
say that no kids under eighteen should be using AI companions.
They reinforce harmful thinking instead of offering real therapy. The
APA is urging regulators to step in, saying that chatbot

(09:12):
empathy often comes with the cost of real mental health safeguards.
So we're not driving our cars now, we're trusting a
computer to tell us how to live our lives. Paulina,
come on, I mean.

Speaker 5 (09:21):
Like, yes, please seek professional help by all means. And
if you're gonna ask GBT like, ask you like what's
for dinner? Don't ask you for like what should I
do regarding my mental health? That's scary even though that's
what you do, not a little bit. Yeah, therapist, Yeah,
we sprinkle of advice.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
Yeah. And and Wendy's is upsetting many many people. This morning,
their newest ad starts with a loud ring doorbell chime,
and animal owners are not happy and they're complaining about it.
The sound triggers dogs to bark and race to the
front door, turning the ad into a nightmare for animals.
I guess this is fuel now for the doctors's happening
to you.

Speaker 4 (09:58):
Lux goes crazy, he loses his mind when he has
a ring doorbell on TV.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
So they're mad about this. I don't think you should
put sirens. I don't think you should put doorbells in
commercial sirens you should not put in commercial.

Speaker 4 (10:10):
No.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
If I'm driving down the street in my car and
there's a siren, I'm looking on where is it? I
gotta pull over. This thing's gonna run me over, And
then I find out there's just on the radio. You
shouldn't be able to do that. The ring doorbell chime
needs to go. It gets my dogs all riled up.
Somebody step another pet owner chimed in my daughter's little frend.
He goes nuts. You can't catch it with the mute,

(10:30):
and people are very mad saying that when he's just
traumatizing dogs everywhere. So we got people getting farted on victims.
We got victim dogs this morning. We got we got
people on chat cheep, be Tea trying to get therapy therapized.
We got people they're not paying attention, but they're texting
right now from a model. Why as we talk about this,
I hope you got your hands on the wheel. I can't,

(10:51):
nothing can happen to you. But at least we got
cheap cell phone service. As long as there's no branding
on it, as long as no one's ever gonna know.

Speaker 3 (11:01):
That phone, there would be there was even worse.

Speaker 1 (11:07):
There would be sides toilet, There would be indications it's
National Mascot Day, National Eat your Vegetables Day, and National
root Beer Day today

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