December 26, 2025 • 6 mins
Do inanimate objects have feelings? Or is it all just a stunt?!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Do you believe things like Alexa have feelings? Do you
(00:05):
believe in inanimate objects having feelings? You know, on Easter, I
can't eat the Easter Bunny chocolates. I'm not messing around.
I told Ashley this so you can attest these. Didn't
I say this off the air. I was just saying
it to be funny or anything. I know they don't
have feelings, but there's a part of me that doesn't know,
(00:28):
and there's something about like I can't get to it.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Yeah, I know, it's just like you gotta eat the.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Ears and that's it for me.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Eight hundred four nine ninety three ninety three. Do you
believe things like Amazon Alexa have feelings? So this was
kind of a funny headline that I saw, and it
was that gen zers.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
And younger.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Are now thinking that Alexis don't have feelings, which you
think it would be the other way around because you
grow up with it.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
You're just used to it, you think.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
But for some reason, people who are older, they believe
and have sympathy for these things. They won't yell at them,
they'll talk to them kind of nice to make sure
you know they're not like mad or anything like that, Oh, I.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Yell at mine, and I know she has feelings.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I get so upset when she goes I didn't understand
what you said. I'm like, I'm saying it loud and clear,
Alexa play something radio and she won't play it. And
then there was one time I told you, when I
was sitting on the couch, randomly she starts making fart noises,
like what.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Who does that? You think she was tooting?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
She was just like, you know what, I'm annoyed by you,
so I'm gonna make some fart noises.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
She was tooting' and gosh. But I definitely think they
have feelings. Hey, who's waking up with the Joe Show?
Who's this?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Hi? My name is Skyler.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Skyler.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Do you believe that Amazon Alexis have feelings? Like, if
you're near an Amazon alex and you got to talk
to it, are you polite or you go, this is
a machine.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
I don't care.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Maybe not Amazon alections. I always like to be polite,
But I was always the kid that would plap off
all of my stuffed animals. There are none of them,
so their feelings wouldn't get hurt. Men.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Amen, Hey, I still have I still have stuffed animals,
if you want to be honest, Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
If any of them falling before, I feel so bad
and I'd put them back up on the bed and
I say, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
I treated I treated like a yamica. You know, in
Jewish faith, if you drop your yamaka, you gotta kiss it.
And that's what I would do for my stuffed animals,
if they fall on the ground and go, hey, come here,
smoochy spooch, I apologize.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Hey, Summer, you're waking up with the Joe Show. You
don't believe that AI has feelings.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
Well, it's not so much that I don't have feelings.
I believe that they're learning how to have feelings.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Through people, Yes, with you on that.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Yeah, Like they're looking through our phones, they're using our cameras,
our mice and everything, and at all times they're watching
and learning how it could be more human like through people.
That's you know, they got that test and everything that
they keep failing, so they're trying and trying. They're going
to get it though.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Oh yeah, because they hear us cry the here is yeah,
the here's what we're happy.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Oh my goodness, I'm freaked out.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
My Amazon Alexa is going to have incredible anxiety. Uh,
they will second guess themselves. They will be happy and
then very sad. Miamizon, Alexa is screwed. If it's taken after.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Me good and your Alexani's good to therapy, it probably does.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
The massive you know they got sell you the one
hundred monkeys the same thing with that.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Look at that, Look at that.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
My Alexa wishes that the owner of it was a
monkey because it'd be better than me.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Well, thank you guys for having me.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
On one more time.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Kids don't believe Alexa has feelings. Kids don't believe Alexa
has feelings. Alexa. We're talking to Alexa, but human Alexa. Okay,
what do you think, Alexa?
Speaker 4 (03:59):
I I am convinced that every inanimate object has feelings,
like my stuffed animals are mad that they're in the closet,
like I think.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
When I totaled my car and I had to leave
my car at the junkyard, I cried because I felt
like I failed her there. That was real.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
I had to go get my stuff out of the
car and I couldn't. I had to leave it there,
and I felt I felt bad like she was sad
that she had to be destroyed.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Now, I got mad at my little brother.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
I was driving him and he made the comment, your
car is ugly, and I made him apologize, and I
immediately got worried. I go, you know, we could be
in danger now, because yeah, my car has our lives
in its hands, and she's gonna do one of two things.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
She's gonna take care of us. She conna cause some damage.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Oh yeah, and people name their cars all the time.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Oh, I've named all of my cars.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
They have named what is your car's name? Red Ruby?
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yeah, mine's the interceptor because it's good, I think.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Don't worry about it. Don't ask why you ask me?
Don't worry about it? Is it? Pooja?
Speaker 6 (05:09):
Yes, hi Joe?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Hello? How are you?
Speaker 6 (05:12):
How are you? I'm good? How are you?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
I get to talk to Pooja right now? I'm fantastic.
You gotta tell me, though, what's the deal with alexis?
Do you believe that they have feelings? Or am I
crazy for thinking it?
Speaker 6 (05:25):
Okay, so I don't think, so I'm in it. I
also teach machine learning. I don't think they they have feelings,
but I do think they are learning and adapting to
every ask that you know. All around the world, Alexas
there and people ask them, ask it her questions, and
(05:48):
I think they are adapting with every question that they
are are.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Does that scare you or does that excite you?
Speaker 6 (05:56):
It's a bit of boat only because of where I am.
It's a bit of both. It is definitely scary, but
you know, I have my excitement when I see that,
So yeah, I think it's both.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
It is who knows.
Do you believe things like Alexa have feelings? Do you
(00:05):
believe in inanimate objects having feelings? You know, on Easter, I
can't eat the Easter Bunny chocolates. I'm not messing around.
I told Ashley this so you can attest these. Didn't
I say this off the air. I was just saying
it to be funny or anything. I know they don't
have feelings, but there's a part of me that doesn't know,
(00:28):
and there's something about like I can't get to it.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Yeah, I know, it's just like you gotta eat the.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Ears and that's it for me.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Eight hundred four nine ninety three ninety three. Do you
believe things like Amazon Alexa have feelings? So this was
kind of a funny headline that I saw, and it
was that gen zers.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
And younger.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Are now thinking that Alexis don't have feelings, which you
think it would be the other way around because you
grow up with it.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
You're just used to it, you think.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
But for some reason, people who are older, they believe
and have sympathy for these things. They won't yell at them,
they'll talk to them kind of nice to make sure
you know they're not like mad or anything like that, Oh, I.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Yell at mine, and I know she has feelings.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I get so upset when she goes I didn't understand
what you said. I'm like, I'm saying it loud and clear,
Alexa play something radio and she won't play it. And
then there was one time I told you, when I
was sitting on the couch, randomly she starts making fart noises,
like what.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Who does that? You think she was tooting?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
She was just like, you know what, I'm annoyed by you,
so I'm gonna make some fart noises.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
She was tooting' and gosh. But I definitely think they
have feelings. Hey, who's waking up with the Joe Show?
Who's this?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Hi? My name is Skyler.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Skyler.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Do you believe that Amazon Alexis have feelings? Like, if
you're near an Amazon alex and you got to talk
to it, are you polite or you go, this is
a machine.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
I don't care.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Maybe not Amazon alections. I always like to be polite,
But I was always the kid that would plap off
all of my stuffed animals. There are none of them,
so their feelings wouldn't get hurt. Men.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Amen, Hey, I still have I still have stuffed animals,
if you want to be honest, Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
If any of them falling before, I feel so bad
and I'd put them back up on the bed and
I say, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
I treated I treated like a yamica. You know, in
Jewish faith, if you drop your yamaka, you gotta kiss it.
And that's what I would do for my stuffed animals,
if they fall on the ground and go, hey, come here,
smoochy spooch, I apologize.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Hey, Summer, you're waking up with the Joe Show. You
don't believe that AI has feelings.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
Well, it's not so much that I don't have feelings.
I believe that they're learning how to have feelings.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Through people, Yes, with you on that.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Yeah, Like they're looking through our phones, they're using our cameras,
our mice and everything, and at all times they're watching
and learning how it could be more human like through people.
That's you know, they got that test and everything that
they keep failing, so they're trying and trying. They're going
to get it though.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Oh yeah, because they hear us cry the here is yeah,
the here's what we're happy.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Oh my goodness, I'm freaked out.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
My Amazon Alexa is going to have incredible anxiety. Uh,
they will second guess themselves. They will be happy and
then very sad. Miamizon, Alexa is screwed. If it's taken after.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Me good and your Alexani's good to therapy, it probably does.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
The massive you know they got sell you the one
hundred monkeys the same thing with that.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Look at that, Look at that.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
My Alexa wishes that the owner of it was a
monkey because it'd be better than me.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Well, thank you guys for having me.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
On one more time.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Kids don't believe Alexa has feelings. Kids don't believe Alexa
has feelings. Alexa. We're talking to Alexa, but human Alexa. Okay,
what do you think, Alexa?
Speaker 4 (03:59):
I I am convinced that every inanimate object has feelings,
like my stuffed animals are mad that they're in the closet,
like I think.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
When I totaled my car and I had to leave
my car at the junkyard, I cried because I felt
like I failed her there. That was real.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
I had to go get my stuff out of the
car and I couldn't. I had to leave it there,
and I felt I felt bad like she was sad
that she had to be destroyed.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Now, I got mad at my little brother.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
I was driving him and he made the comment, your
car is ugly, and I made him apologize, and I
immediately got worried. I go, you know, we could be
in danger now, because yeah, my car has our lives
in its hands, and she's gonna do one of two things.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
She's gonna take care of us. She conna cause some damage.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Oh yeah, and people name their cars all the time.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Oh, I've named all of my cars.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
They have named what is your car's name? Red Ruby?
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yeah, mine's the interceptor because it's good, I think.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Don't worry about it. Don't ask why you ask me?
Don't worry about it? Is it? Pooja?
Speaker 6 (05:09):
Yes, hi Joe?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Hello? How are you?
Speaker 6 (05:12):
How are you? I'm good? How are you?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
I get to talk to Pooja right now? I'm fantastic.
You gotta tell me, though, what's the deal with alexis?
Do you believe that they have feelings? Or am I
crazy for thinking it?
Speaker 6 (05:25):
Okay, so I don't think, so I'm in it. I
also teach machine learning. I don't think they they have feelings,
but I do think they are learning and adapting to
every ask that you know. All around the world, Alexas
there and people ask them, ask it her questions, and
(05:48):
I think they are adapting with every question that they
are are.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Does that scare you or does that excite you?
Speaker 6 (05:56):
It's a bit of boat only because of where I am.
It's a bit of both. It is definitely scary, but
you know, I have my excitement when I see that,
So yeah, I think it's both.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
It is who knows.
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