The Michael J Morning Show Podcast - July 10, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey guys, it's Bethany from the Michael J Morning Show.
You're listening to Michael J and Bethany after Hours.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Ninety three point one wpo C.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
Now, well, it is Thursday, so we're already looking forward
to the weekend and we're just trying to digging in
to see what.

Speaker 4 (00:17):
Kind of things are going on around Baltimore.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
For you, if you didn't hear our O's were rained
out last night. So now they're going to play a
double header against the Mets, so you can go catch
a baseball game. Although we have a chance of some
more thunderstorms today, so oh boy, there is that.

Speaker 4 (00:34):
Just looking at the rundown.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
It's like a summer restaurant week is.

Speaker 4 (00:39):
Coming up at the end of the month. Okay, do
you like that? Do you have you ever done that?

Speaker 3 (00:44):
You know what, I haven't. I always hear about it
and then I kind of forget about it.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
It's I think it's a really good opportunity to try
new restaurants, right, you know it's they have a you know,
preset menu and you can go and you know, you
know how much it's going to be, right, I think
it's fun.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Well, I don't know if this is up your alley
or not excuse me, but chest Fest Chess your chess
chess pest and they're playing chess at Lexington Market. So
if anybody who's really into chess, that's kind of the thing.
Not well, I mean that's a very serious game, you know.

(01:20):
I mean I know how to play it, but.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Not I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
I'm not a you know, wizard when it comes to it.
The other thing going on this weekend Tomorrow night, Dirk's
Bentley down the Road to Jiffy lu Black the headline
that is it.

Speaker 4 (01:32):
Yeah, he's the big one for you.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
Yeah, all right, So Dirk's and uh and Zach top
going that's.

Speaker 4 (01:38):
Gonna be a great show.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
And then Zach joined his Hot Country Nights band too.

Speaker 4 (01:43):
Oh that is so cool.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
Yeah, if you're going just one little tidbit in the
beginning of the show.

Speaker 4 (01:48):
I think he's gonna do this again.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
Every tour I've seen recently, he has a bluegrass band
that comes out and they'll.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
Play and Charlie Warsham is usually and because he's in
his it's so good.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Dirks has got a kind of disguise on and if
he does have that bluegrass then going on look for
Dirks among the bluegrass players.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Ninety three point one until you poc traffic.

Speaker 4 (02:12):
That's what he did last year.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
We'll see if you're headed to see Dirks tomorrow night,
Jiffy Lube Live.

Speaker 4 (02:18):
Okay forty Westbound at the Heaten.

Speaker 5 (02:20):
Movi Siven thirty in the morning, and and Mickey d
jaf too Muffin's want coming in a little bitty dude.

Speaker 4 (02:33):
We were talking about your spouse.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
You find out somebody you're with has got a relationship
with an AI on the computer. A lot of women
were commenting, we do have a guy here. Lance just
wanted awig in real quick here.

Speaker 6 (02:45):
There's some mental issues going on there too, as you've
been talking about them to you, like just the like
that you're seriously, like that into it and to ask
it to marry you. I mean, like, yeah, that's a
little I'm kind of with you, Bethany. I think I
would be okay, right.

Speaker 7 (03:02):
I keep us in the loop of entertainment and pop
culture and the things we shouldn't care about, but somehow
we really do. Bethany Brief on nine.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
Now you can fall in love with Bethany's Brief though,
please do. It's totally legal, please do so.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
Uh And speaking of falling in love, Tom Brady and
Sophia Vargara, Wow, sitting in a tree?

Speaker 4 (03:24):
Okay, yes, is she a little bit older than him?
I love to check that. Yeah, I don't know. They're
both hot though. That's a great looking couple. Yeah, okay.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
Nintendo announced Animal Crossings, first ever collaboration with Crocs, coming
out later this year, just in time for back to school.
I'm sure Netflix's Queer Eye is coming to an end.
The series has been renewed for its tenth season and
that will be its last. There will, however, be a
Night at the Museum reboot, so that's something.

Speaker 4 (03:54):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
Mittel is trying to make Barbie as inclusive as possible,
and the l latest new Barbie doll will have type
one diabetes. They're saying that that's really good for little
kids who are growing up with disabilities.

Speaker 4 (04:08):
Uh okay.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
Pope Leo met with Zelensky and offered to host peace talks.

Speaker 4 (04:13):
Really, yeah, well that would be something. It would be something.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
And lastly, if you have an iPhone, beware you guys.
There's a new thing on iPhones where is if you're
facetiming and the chat gets a little intimate, right, it
will pause and say if you're uncomfortable, click here to
end this call. Okay, Now they're saying it's a safety feature,

(04:36):
but a lot of people are like, wait a minute,
why do you know what's happening on my call? And
Apple said, well, we're not in your private chats, but
we have software that can tell when things get a
little naughty.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
What about it if it's they need an age restriction
on that more than anything, don't you think, I mean,
it would be nice if we could protect our kids,
That's all I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (04:57):
Yeah, so I don't know, I think that's really fascinating.
It sure is.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
And we did check. Sophia Vigera is just five years
older than Tom Brady. That's okay, I mean not no
judge zone, but that's that's cool. Yeah, he likes an
older woman.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Ninety three point one w POC traffic.

Speaker 4 (05:16):
There's new.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
Ninety three point one w POC. Do you have the
iHeartRadio app?

Speaker 4 (05:27):
Not trying to be too personal, but if you look
at your phone right, yes, if.

Speaker 3 (05:31):
You got it, you can take us with you. And
who knows what you got planned for the weekend. We
just want to tag along.

Speaker 5 (05:36):
Yeah, see, I'll have a change just to go around
town with some gasoline.

Speaker 8 (05:42):
Just trying to.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
Ninety three point one WPOC. There's Luke, Bryan, Michael, Jay here, Bethany.
We've got the hot seat ready and I think we're
just about ready to fire up. Kelly's on the line, Kelly,
what are you doing?

Speaker 4 (06:18):
All right?

Speaker 3 (06:19):
You want to jump in our hot seat and try
to win some tickets for Parmerley?

Speaker 9 (06:24):
Absolutely?

Speaker 4 (06:25):
All right? Three questions, three seconds each.

Speaker 3 (06:27):
Remember, you gotta answer quickly or we're gonna have to
buzzy and hang up.

Speaker 4 (06:31):
You don't want to hear that buzzer.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
No way?

Speaker 4 (06:35):
All right, Kelly? What do you do for a living?

Speaker 9 (06:39):
I work in a trucking company.

Speaker 4 (06:41):
Oh, a trucking company.

Speaker 3 (06:43):
Maybe we should have a truck horn instead of the
old buzzer.

Speaker 4 (06:48):
All right, Kelly, here we go. What was the last
thing that you did that truly scared you? Last scary thing.

Speaker 9 (06:57):
Something I did that truly scared had a child?

Speaker 1 (07:02):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (07:02):
Girl, that is scary. I'd be petrified myself.

Speaker 4 (07:06):
Were you more were you more scared.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
About actually having it, like the birth, or were you
more scared about like taking care of it?

Speaker 4 (07:13):
Right?

Speaker 2 (07:15):
Rais said, child, there's a lot of responsibility.

Speaker 4 (07:21):
All right, Oh, you did great? Then, good work.

Speaker 6 (07:26):
Prepared.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
Now, question number two, we were talking earlier about how
this man was cheating with AI. He had a fiance
and a child in real life and he had a
relationship with his chat. Do you think that having a
relationship with AI is considered cheating?

Speaker 4 (07:48):
I don't think so. No, strange, but I don't think
it's considered cheating. All right, all right, and question number three.
You're doing great? Are you tickle? And if so? Where?

Speaker 1 (08:04):
Oh? Dear, yes, everywhere?

Speaker 3 (08:06):
Everywhere, Kelly, you're going to see congratulations.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
Ninety three point one WPOC traffic.

Speaker 4 (08:16):
All right, there's a disabled.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
VA ninety three point one w POC.

Speaker 1 (08:29):
Now. You know how sometimes there'll be a story that you,
I don't know, just kind of resonates with you. Sure,
And the seventy year old woman that got shot last
it was two weeks ago, yes by Baltimore. Please, I
don't that story hit me kind of hard? In particular?

Speaker 3 (08:45):
What's really weird about this Bethany's I just read the
description of what happened, and then.

Speaker 4 (08:50):
You got to see the video, which I've not seen.
I watched the video yesterday.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
Of course I watched on Baltimore Banner and they blocked
out the most violent part of it, so I didn't
get you know, right, not that I would want to
see that all that anyway, but unfortunately didn't change the
way I feel about it. I still am quite upset, right.
I was sort of hoping that I would watch the
bodycam video and see something where I could justify perhaps

(09:16):
the police action, right, And when I saw the video,
I feel even more so that it was unnecessary for uce.

Speaker 4 (09:23):
Well, the community is very upset.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
Yet it on the other side of the equation, you've
got police officers who were trying to do their job
and as a police I'm not sure it was the
commissioner who said this, but the quote was police are police.
What that means is they're not mental health advisors. However,
they're put in a position on a daily basis where

(09:46):
they need to be right at least skilled on some
level of dealing with mental unstable conditions, right and unealf.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
Yeah, it's a tough position to be in. I but
you know, watching the video, I was like, this is
not it.

Speaker 4 (10:04):
So where does this go from here? Do we go
to court and you know, I you know, I don't know.
I don't I don't know. Yeah, we got to see
what I just I don't know.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
It just made me like upset, very sad because I
just don't I don't know, like just keep seeing videos
more and more where I'm like, this is not it.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
It is tough being a police officer. And the thing
that was explained in just the description. Now I don't
see the video and this is something you'd have to
analyze second by second. But a seventy year old woman,
very unstable with a knife in her home. The police
are called because apparently she was trying to attack someone
I don't know who, but they also thought with this

(10:45):
wellness check, you know, maybe she's gonna hurt herself. So
they did come a full tilt boogie right through the door.
That needs to be investigated. And then on the bodycam,
apparently you see one of the police officers trips over
a chair and while he's down, she's alleged to have
pursued him with a knife and if.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
She I didn't see them, huh, okay, see what this is.
And also I didn't see them even knock on the door. Okay,
Like I'm like guys, do we really need to just don't?

Speaker 4 (11:15):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
Well, I'm not a cop, so what do I know
any police officers who want to weigh in and just say,
you know, you can be completely anonymous. We're just you know,
what is it like to go through that job and
have to deal with the you know, the levels of
mental instability that are out there.

Speaker 4 (11:30):
You see people.

Speaker 3 (11:31):
I saw a guy walking down around the building here
today with no shoes on, talking to himself at four
o'clock in the morning, and you know, a young man,
and I'm thinking, man, it's the just the homelessness problem
is just a big deal. And we you know, how
we treat that, I don't know, but God bless our
cops for what you do. And I know you got

(11:52):
a tough job.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
Ninety three point one WPOC traffic BW Parkway southbound between
at Ranndomi's Bolvard and one seventy five is super slow
right now.

Speaker 4 (12:01):
We are backed up before both tunnels.

Speaker 1 (12:03):
Looks like about five or six minutes each the outer
loop and Security Boulevard and accident reported there.

Speaker 4 (12:08):
Things are backed up to seven ninety five. All right,
if you're ready, I'm ready, And don't worry. No one
has to call the police on me here, I'm ready
to throw up. Oh watch out? And what kind of
tickets do we have talking about Little Big Town today?
Are you ready? Yeah? Let's go ninety three point one WPOC.

Speaker 3 (12:30):
Big shout out to Lisa who just grabbed the tickets
for a Little Big Town.

Speaker 4 (12:35):
Lisa is a nurse.

Speaker 3 (12:36):
Yeah, we got to talking about how you know, she
may or may not have to deal with instability mentally
with patients. She said it just like police officers, every case,
every patient, every person you deal with is different.

Speaker 4 (12:49):
Bethany's different set of issues.

Speaker 9 (12:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (12:51):
So just a lot of love for anybody who's dealing
with the public and in a situation where you're a
first responder or on the front line of medicine.

Speaker 4 (12:58):
Man, you deal with so much every day, split second decisions.
We appreciate you so much.

Speaker 7 (13:02):
Michael Jay's Music City Minute in sixty seconds.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
You don't know like you own music.

Speaker 4 (13:08):
Row all right, So what is going on in Nashville
A lot?

Speaker 3 (13:12):
We always try to keep you updated here with the
Music City Minute.

Speaker 4 (13:16):
Did you hear this story about mom shaming?

Speaker 3 (13:20):
I don't understand why the anger that people seem to
have and they want to insult to other people.

Speaker 4 (13:26):
But apparently country.

Speaker 3 (13:27):
Singer Lauren Elaina was mom shame for real and she's
not having it. So she was quick to jump on
social media and clap back. She was shamed for not
breastfeeding and she posted a video of washing baby.

Speaker 4 (13:45):
Bottles and she was attacked. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (13:49):
Now I am in no position to comment on any
of this, so I won't, right, but it's amazing.

Speaker 4 (13:58):
I'll just say this.

Speaker 3 (13:59):
It's amazing to me when someone's just trying to go
about their their life, right, and she was just washing
baby bottles, right, and people started coming at her.

Speaker 7 (14:08):
Right.

Speaker 4 (14:08):
I mean, arguablieve.

Speaker 1 (14:09):
Nobody is in any position to tell anybody else how
to raise their kid, but especially when it just comes
to la it's just so you just don't know her business.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
And Lauren's like she's not having it. So that's a
tough spot, is That's tricky. Chris Lane and his wife
Lauren are ready for baby number three wow, coming in October.
All right. The couple just shared their gender reveal online.
They're gonna be having a baby girl. So congratulations the
country singer Chris Lane and his wife. Only advice I

(14:38):
should give those got pulls. When the baby comes, don't
put the baby bottles on the internet. Yeah, yes, you
keep it to yourself. I mean, you know, it's it's
wild world we live in. That is your music City
minute this morning.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
Ninety three point one w POC.

Speaker 3 (14:58):
You know, we live in a different time because it's
twenty twenty five. You're at ninety three point one WPOC,
and you kind of forget if you grew up in
the in the nineties, you know, or maybe you're born
after the two thousands. You just think this is the
way it is. We didn't always have AI assistance. We
didn't always have you know, these these bots. I guess

(15:21):
they're called.

Speaker 4 (15:21):
Right, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:23):
I mean it's interesting because even yesterday we wrote a
song with AI and had a blast with it and laughed.
And I use AI all the time to like, I
don't know, if I need to fix something around the house,
or I use it for medical stuff a lot, like
you know, oh I cut myself, what's the best way
to handle it or whatever, and like it's fantastic.

Speaker 4 (15:44):
So there's like lots of different ways to use it.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
But then I saw on CBS this morning the other
day a story about a man who has a relationship
with his AI to the point where he asked her
to marry him. The catches he has a real life
fiance and a child. Yeah, and it's I can't My

(16:08):
brain is like, just I don't understand.

Speaker 4 (16:11):
Well, I don't know if they're not married yet.

Speaker 8 (16:14):
But his fiance said, at that point, I felt like,
is there something that I'm not doing right in our
relationship that he feels like he needs to go to AI.

Speaker 3 (16:26):
Is it just that the AI companion doesn't yell, scream,
judge ask him to unload the dishwasher. There's no responsibility.
In other words, it's just it's a friend who's always
in a good mood.

Speaker 1 (16:40):
Right, right, There's never any responsibility. Yeah, there's no I
think so I do think it. I just think it's
it's so terrifying to me, Like and then these are
grown adults, But then think about your teenagers, Like what's
gonna happen there? Like one thing's gonna le to another
and you're all of a sudden, you're teenager's dating and AI.

(17:04):
I don't think like the general public is aware of
how tricky it can be to navigate.

Speaker 3 (17:09):
Yeah, and you don't realize I think it sounds like
they're trying to say. It's like a slippery slope because
at first you're just kind of talking and they're maybe
helping you with a chore or right, something you don't understand.
And then the next thing, it's like, hey baby, let
me show you where to put that screwdriver.

Speaker 1 (17:25):
And you can ask them like he asked his chat
to be more flirty with him, right, and so she
changed her don't sit So instead of being like.

Speaker 4 (17:33):
Sure, you know, just unload the dishwasher blah blah.

Speaker 1 (17:36):
Blah blah, he was like, hey baby, and I'm like,
uh uh, like, well, what are you doing? Could it
be first of all this his fiancee s.

Speaker 4 (17:48):
Just dumped him?

Speaker 3 (17:50):
Or should they re evaluate, evaluate their relationship and start
no work?

Speaker 4 (17:54):
Guy's a loser? Okay, Well I'm not gonna righte. No,
I'm not. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (17:58):
I can't judge that. I really can't, And I'm not
just trying to take his side. I just here's what happens.
As a rule, in my humble opinion, we all get
so busy with our lives we really do forget about
what the other person's going through. And maybe if I
don't know it Is this a pipe dream? If we're
so close and we spend time really caring about the

(18:21):
other person, we can keep them from doing this?

Speaker 4 (18:23):
Or is it going to happen?

Speaker 1 (18:23):
No matter what?

Speaker 4 (18:25):
You know what I mean, maybe I'm just blue skying it.
I think I don't know. It would bother me, though,
I gotta say.

Speaker 3 (18:32):
Let me ask you seven seven nine sixty two Texas,
would it bother you if your spouse was hooking up?

Speaker 4 (18:38):
Be a little bear about the door kicking on the rooftop?

Speaker 1 (18:47):
Love it?

Speaker 3 (18:47):
Sam Hunt on The Michael J Morning Show ninety three
point one WPOC at seven forty. So we're talking about
a guy who fell in love with an AI assistant.

Speaker 4 (18:57):
Asked her to marry him.

Speaker 6 (18:59):
She did.

Speaker 3 (19:00):
Meanwhile, he's got a fiance and a baby. Hey, is
that cheating? There's a question I'm really curious about. Some
people would say, obviously, yes.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
It's not.

Speaker 4 (19:10):
It's a computer. It's like a robot. It is a robot.
It's exactly what it is. It's a virtual robot. But
I like talking to chat. Yeah, But the difference is
developing that that emotional.

Speaker 3 (19:23):
Thought, it's not a real relationship, right, Getting a lot
of texts seven seven nine six two.

Speaker 4 (19:27):
Start with A or high, so we get it.

Speaker 1 (19:29):
I said, obviously, the fiance needs to dump him because
he's a loser. And someone said the second that he
made her feel bad about herself, she started judging herself
against AI. Right, that's the second she needs to turn
around and leave. Yeah, because like she can't be held
the same standard as a well, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (19:47):
Because you're comparing yourself to the Yeah, it's that's ridiculous.

Speaker 4 (19:51):
Someone said, yes, dump him.

Speaker 1 (19:53):
Then someone else said, the only way my spouse can
date is if I join with him and we both
like her.

Speaker 4 (19:58):
Now, hold on, here's the question.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
Would you rather your spouse cheat on you with a
real human or with an AI?

Speaker 5 (20:06):
What a real girl?

Speaker 4 (20:08):
All right, you can let us know seven seven nine
six two.

Speaker 1 (20:11):
Begin your message with high or hey or call eight
hundred three two one thirty six ninety.

Speaker 3 (20:15):
Three ninety three point one WTOC. Just as the song
was fading, let's meet who's on the phone.

Speaker 4 (20:29):
What is your name?

Speaker 2 (20:30):
Ma'am?

Speaker 6 (20:31):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (20:31):
My name called him before?

Speaker 4 (20:33):
All Right, Hey, Kendra, so you heard.

Speaker 3 (20:35):
Us talking about this situation where the guy was in
love with his AI and he asked her to marry him,
and the fiance.

Speaker 9 (20:40):
No, that's craziness. That man needs some help. No, Honestly,
in my opinion, if my husband, my Bob, and my
FIDELI and my honesty and everything that goes along with
being married is not enough for my husband and he
went to pull something like that, Oh no, out, you're done.

Speaker 4 (21:02):
I'm not defending out Ken Kendrew.

Speaker 3 (21:06):
Can I ask you just one question? Yes, all right,
So this is kind of what I was thinking. But
zero five to three one last four digit says, Hey,
as long as I am your spouse, I feel it
is my duty to give you what you need.

Speaker 4 (21:22):
If my spouse were to start.

Speaker 3 (21:24):
Spending more time with someone something else, I would be
sitting down or sitting him down for a private chat
to find out what is it that he wants or
needs and what is it that I'm not doing saying
or showing. Is it something that is worth discussing or
do you just say, hey, there's the door, buddy, get
the hell out of here.

Speaker 9 (21:46):
Well, me, personally, there's the door, get out, because I've
been through being cheenarmed like in my life and for real,
not with some fake stuff, and I know how it
breaks your heart, and to me, it's a whole technology

(22:06):
in this world has just blowing things way out of proportion,
and you know, like fascin he was saying earlier about
the younger generation, there should be an age women they're saying,
they're saying.

Speaker 4 (22:19):
You should be twenty six.

Speaker 3 (22:20):
They're recommending now psychologists are saying to be twenty six
even before you deal.

Speaker 1 (22:25):
With But I ask your teenagers, I bet I guarantee
they're already having conversations with child yea, yeah they are.
And I feel like this is a warning shot, Like
I think I think this is about to be an
epidemic because it's easy and you can't really get caught.

Speaker 4 (22:43):
And no one really knows what you're doing it. Yeah,
this is a slippery slope.

Speaker 2 (22:47):
Yeah, it's like very it's very scary.

Speaker 4 (22:50):
Like some years ago.

Speaker 9 (22:51):
It's been a while, because that's fifty six. I think
it was like fifteen twenty years ago. I saw a
movie and I don't remember the name of it, but
this man made robotic women.

Speaker 6 (23:04):
Like her.

Speaker 4 (23:05):
I think it was her.

Speaker 9 (23:07):
I think it might have been that chick I started
killing men for being Yeah, what's going to happen people that?

Speaker 4 (23:24):
Oh no, Kender, I'm a little bit worried that you're
going to turn on stop it. Listen, Kendrew, you have
a wonderful day. She's too much, she is too cute.

Speaker 1 (23:37):
Yeah, I think that I think that this needs to
be Like I would argue you should have the conversation
with your spouse before they get involved with GPT, like
go home today and start.

Speaker 4 (23:48):
So many good texts coming in.

Speaker 3 (23:49):
I know you could share them all, can I wish
one was the one that went at Flanders and making
dead he not cheat it all?

Speaker 4 (23:55):
I got dump.

Speaker 3 (23:56):
I mean so many would dump? Right, Yeah, there was
a couple of really real would you really?

Speaker 1 (24:00):
Would you really blow up a twenty year marriage, for instance,
because you found your spouse chatting?

Speaker 4 (24:07):
Would you really?

Speaker 3 (24:09):
If my spouse chooses to cheat on me? The texter
says he better plan his funeral because he would be dead.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
Ninety three point one WPOC traffic.

Speaker 4 (24:18):
I like this one too. Hey.

Speaker 1 (24:19):
I can be flirty when I ask my husband to
empty the dishwasher, but by the third time I have
to ask, the flirt is gone.

Speaker 4 (24:29):
Okay, oh goodness, all right,