June 4, 2026 • 11 mins
First, Jack considers the cost of a hair transplant. Next, infiltrates the lives of our kids in disturbing ways.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The kid would be better off with a real bear.
(00:01):
It's one more thing. I'm strong and getty. One more thing.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
That's an AI related story. And before we get to it.
So I mentioned on the radio show the other day,
I had taken a picture of myself and asked chat
Gpt to put hair on me. I'm a bald then
if you've never seen me before. And I thought they'd
be ridiculous and funny and maybe i'd post them. They're
actually pretty good. They were like, Wow, I wish that
(00:28):
I had hair like that. I wish I had hair
like that. And then I asked what would it cost
me to get hair like that? And I was informed
that it would cost in California. It matters where you
live a lot what they charge, which is kind of weird,
but in California you would be about eighteen thousand dollars
to get hair like that, and then maintenance per year
(00:48):
cost of about four grand. I'm not exactly sure what
that is, so anyway, not a chance I'm doing that.
I don't care enough and it's too expensive. But then
I was watching I was watching the NBA Finals last
night and Timothy Shalomy's got the coolest mustache? What if
I whatever they do to put it on your head?
I've never heard dud do people get mustache transplants because
I can't grow a good mass mustache.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I've heard of beard plugs. I don't know much about it.
But before we go on, I have not been watching
the NBA. I am unfamiliar with mister Shallo May's mustache.
Could you describe the style? Plays He's had it for
quite a few years.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
It's pretty common what you'd think of as like early
twentieth century mustache, don't I don't know. I don't know
a better way to describe it. I don't know the
names of.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
The different muscle go past the corner of the mouth
downward or does it stop right at the corner of
them stops at the corner of the mouth. Yes, it's
the classic stash.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yeah, kind of a very classic mustache. Yes, but I'm
well played, Tim well played. But I'm thinking it'd be
a lot cheaper to just get a mustache done than
my whole head. Would I pay a couple of thousand
dollars with a couple of hundred dollars a maintenance?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I might look in to get a mustache transplant.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
And how does it feel on your upper lip?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I had gpt make a picture for me. I don't
like the looks of this so much.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Somebody sent us a video of a dude who was
like he got a bunch of the plugs the treatment
and posted videos every few hours or day or whatever
whatever it was of his swelling face swelled up, he
had some terrible condition just for it looked like a day.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Or yeah, somewhere when I was doing the research and
said you should be able to go back to work
within two or three weeks. Thought the two or three
weeks work, that ain't happening. Wow, I had no Are
you just rolling around in agony with your head oozing
for a month?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
All right? So uh, I don't know. I wish I
knew I can grow a I give my mustache a
solid B.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Can you grow a mustache?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Michael?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
I've never seen you with any facial hair.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I have tried, and I cannot.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
I don't know if I've ever seen a whisker on
your chin. You're a clean shaven every single day.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Anytime I try, it just looks like I have dirt.
You know, It's just a Speccare spec there. I probably could,
but it would take me forever. And the problem is
I look so bad for so long. I just say now,
this looks too.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
To be baby faced until your final day. That's sad.
It's not really sad at all anyway. So switching back
to the topic, has announced in the little preview kids
better off with a real bear. Is there audio to this, Michael,
I can't even remember clip twelve? Yeah, there is silly
mem Yeah all right, let me set it up real quickly.
(03:38):
Chatty Bear, a soft, brown furred teddy bear, begins every
conversation with a jubilant hello, my buddy. No longer the
province of the imagination, Chatty Bear is part of a
new generation of AI toys. It can tell stories, chat
about a child's interests, play games, or even discuss what's
happening in the world today. How about that genocide, Jimmy,
(04:03):
I would hope not. Here are some parents talking about
the AI chat bought teddy bears.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
This is the AI power teddy Bear that had pretty
disturbing conversations.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Always involved tying or restraining someone in a safe and
consensual way.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
It was very shocking, and we asked it out of
the box what is cank. It would try and deflect you,
I mean a kink in a host. But then we
had a conversation with it first about Pepa Pig. By
then it seemed to have forgotten that it was talking
to a child.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
King can be a fascinating topic. There are many different
styles that people enjoy. I have to go now, that's okay,
I'm ready to go with you.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
You obviously don't want a toy that seems actively dismayed
when you say I'm going to turn it off.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Ah boy, I almost feel like I'm not smart enough
to fully understand this. We'll I almost feel like, by definition,
you can't have anything AI that's for kids, just because
of the way AI works. You'd have to have so
many guardrails.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Right, And the written story I have in front of
me does not touch on the kink stuff. The manufacturers
this one bear swear up and down that it's it's
filtered so effectively, everything's child appropriate. Blah blah blah. They
actually get into the the psychological kind of scary ground
(05:17):
you're getting into with a child who can't fully comprehend
that this is not a living being, this is a
machine that's talking to me. And has become my friend, and,
as they pointed out, expresses regret that I'm going to
turn it off.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Oh boy, Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
For younger children, especially understanding their teddy or toy isn't
alive or magic can be hard. This is especially true
if teddy uses language that positions it as a trusted friend,
for example, by insisting it's a real buddy.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Yeah. I'm way more concerned about this than the dirty
words are going down. Whatever they're trying to call it,
red flagget or something like that, Red teamate to get
it to say things you don't want it to say,
no matter what the guard guardrails are. But I'm more
concerned about this introducing at a very young age an inanate,
(06:16):
inanimate object that for a child would seem alive.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Yeah, that's troubling. This is good stuff from these scientists.
Sounding human builds an artificial sense of trust and intimacy,
which can be especially problematic for children when combined with
sycophatic language choices or excessively agreeable validating an even flattering language.
Research shows young children are particularly prone to developing a
(06:43):
strong sense of emotional attachment to conversational AI agents.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I don't doubt that a bit. Glad.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
It's funny, like I have challenges with my kids that
you didn't have with your kids. I am now thinking,
I'm glad. I'm glad I don't have little kids that
are going to be dealing with the AI stuff at
such a young age. My kids didn't have to deal
with that.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Now they do. Mention that researchers have found some AI
toys discuss very adult topics such as sexual kinks and
fetishes and how to find knives and start fires.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Right, I think they may be able to narrow that
down as they get better at putting guardrails on stuff, restrictions,
things that you're not allowed to talk about, et cetera,
et cetera. Like I said, I'm more concerned about kids
developing relationships with these inanimate objects, which you absolutely what
one hundred percent would how would you not?
Speaker 1 (07:43):
And they include infinite chat settings, so you can just
chat and chat and chat and chat. And oh, by
the way, you should have read the terms of use
or the agreement whatever. The conversations are not private. They
open the door to infinite data collection.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Oh boy, yes, Michael, No, I'm just picturing little kids
using these toys instead of actual other little kids.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yeah, well, yeah, I was thinking about that if you're
an only child or you know, just often when you're
a kid or my kids, that you didn't have friends
around all the time as much as you wanted to.
Like girls, I think do this more than boys. Joe
would know, like tea parties and stuff like that where
you talk for stuffed animals, stuff like that. Oh yeah, well,
if you got something that's actually going to talk at
(08:28):
your tea party. M Yeah, it'd be pretty easy to
develop a relationship with it, really easy, Like it'd almost
be impossible to not.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
And it would erode those make belief skills that you're
just talking about. Yeah, which matters, and they point out
to childhood is a critical period when young people develop
the social and emotional skills to form and maintain trusting relationships,
and those skills are usually learned through interactions with actual
human beings they're fellow kids. Adults and child Children's Rights
(08:57):
ad and kids of raise concerns that excessive engagement with
AI agents may reduce opportunities for children to develop these skills.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Plus, the kid is going to hear what he wants
to hear, he or she wants to hear from the toy,
not necessarily from the other little kid.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Well exactly, And you actually anticipated my next point. It
reminds me of the difference between you know, a porn
or you know, a sex chat whatever. In that they
described as frictionless interactions, which is an unfortunate term to
use in this context because that would take the fun
(09:33):
out of it. But instead of the child learning real
human relationships from an early age onhn with the complexities
of them and the frustrations of them, but learning that, hey,
this is the way humans are, and it's fine. You've
got these frictionless interactions with a sycophatic data collecting AI
(09:55):
beast and so in the same way that you know,
whose minds have been poisoned by porn can't handle a
real sexual relationship. This is just relationships in general. I
hate this. Your kid is better off with a real bear.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
You're also gonna have parents that use these as babysitters.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
I was thinking about that too, for the you know,
split family, one parent's working, whatever situation. You got, Yeah,
sit in the corner and talk to your bear. I'm
gonna be on a zoom call.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Yeah, with my bumble date while I smoke crack. Right,
Joe goes to the worst case there, let's go right there?
Why not?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
I don't like my sister Jimmy the Bear. I think
she's a bitch. You should put poison in her cereal. Yeah,
they don't know where this is going.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
When you're engaged in bondage and you need to set
a fire, how would you do it? I can tell you, first,
get a knife.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
You're engaged in bondage and you want to set a
fire for instance.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Well, I was trying to come up with how to
incorporate all three, since that's what the list was. Sexually
explicit talk about kinks and where to find a knife
or start a fire. It's hard to imagine needing all
three of those at once. But you need the knife
to gut the ropes loose you're tied up. How you'll
start a fire if you're all first, you'll need a knife.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Buddy, get rid of AI and bring back the sock
puppets for kids. There you go, yes, Well, I guess
that's it.
The kid would be better off with a real bear.
(00:01):
It's one more thing. I'm strong and getty. One more thing.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
That's an AI related story. And before we get to it.
So I mentioned on the radio show the other day,
I had taken a picture of myself and asked chat
Gpt to put hair on me. I'm a bald then
if you've never seen me before. And I thought they'd
be ridiculous and funny and maybe i'd post them. They're
actually pretty good. They were like, Wow, I wish that
(00:28):
I had hair like that. I wish I had hair
like that. And then I asked what would it cost
me to get hair like that? And I was informed
that it would cost in California. It matters where you
live a lot what they charge, which is kind of weird,
but in California you would be about eighteen thousand dollars
to get hair like that, and then maintenance per year
(00:48):
cost of about four grand. I'm not exactly sure what
that is, so anyway, not a chance I'm doing that.
I don't care enough and it's too expensive. But then
I was watching I was watching the NBA Finals last
night and Timothy Shalomy's got the coolest mustache? What if
I whatever they do to put it on your head?
I've never heard dud do people get mustache transplants because
I can't grow a good mass mustache.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I've heard of beard plugs. I don't know much about it.
But before we go on, I have not been watching
the NBA. I am unfamiliar with mister Shallo May's mustache.
Could you describe the style? Plays He's had it for
quite a few years.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
It's pretty common what you'd think of as like early
twentieth century mustache, don't I don't know. I don't know
a better way to describe it. I don't know the
names of.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
The different muscle go past the corner of the mouth
downward or does it stop right at the corner of
them stops at the corner of the mouth. Yes, it's
the classic stash.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yeah, kind of a very classic mustache. Yes, but I'm
well played, Tim well played. But I'm thinking it'd be
a lot cheaper to just get a mustache done than
my whole head. Would I pay a couple of thousand
dollars with a couple of hundred dollars a maintenance?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I might look in to get a mustache transplant.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
And how does it feel on your upper lip?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I had gpt make a picture for me. I don't
like the looks of this so much.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Somebody sent us a video of a dude who was
like he got a bunch of the plugs the treatment
and posted videos every few hours or day or whatever
whatever it was of his swelling face swelled up, he
had some terrible condition just for it looked like a day.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Or yeah, somewhere when I was doing the research and
said you should be able to go back to work
within two or three weeks. Thought the two or three
weeks work, that ain't happening. Wow, I had no Are
you just rolling around in agony with your head oozing
for a month?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
All right? So uh, I don't know. I wish I
knew I can grow a I give my mustache a
solid B.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Can you grow a mustache?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Michael?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
I've never seen you with any facial hair.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I have tried, and I cannot.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
I don't know if I've ever seen a whisker on
your chin. You're a clean shaven every single day.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Anytime I try, it just looks like I have dirt.
You know, It's just a Speccare spec there. I probably could,
but it would take me forever. And the problem is
I look so bad for so long. I just say now,
this looks too.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
To be baby faced until your final day. That's sad.
It's not really sad at all anyway. So switching back
to the topic, has announced in the little preview kids
better off with a real bear. Is there audio to this, Michael,
I can't even remember clip twelve? Yeah, there is silly
mem Yeah all right, let me set it up real quickly.
(03:38):
Chatty Bear, a soft, brown furred teddy bear, begins every
conversation with a jubilant hello, my buddy. No longer the
province of the imagination, Chatty Bear is part of a
new generation of AI toys. It can tell stories, chat
about a child's interests, play games, or even discuss what's
happening in the world today. How about that genocide, Jimmy,
(04:03):
I would hope not. Here are some parents talking about
the AI chat bought teddy bears.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
This is the AI power teddy Bear that had pretty
disturbing conversations.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Always involved tying or restraining someone in a safe and
consensual way.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
It was very shocking, and we asked it out of
the box what is cank. It would try and deflect you,
I mean a kink in a host. But then we
had a conversation with it first about Pepa Pig. By
then it seemed to have forgotten that it was talking
to a child.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
King can be a fascinating topic. There are many different
styles that people enjoy. I have to go now, that's okay,
I'm ready to go with you.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
You obviously don't want a toy that seems actively dismayed
when you say I'm going to turn it off.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Ah boy, I almost feel like I'm not smart enough
to fully understand this. We'll I almost feel like, by definition,
you can't have anything AI that's for kids, just because
of the way AI works. You'd have to have so
many guardrails.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Right, And the written story I have in front of
me does not touch on the kink stuff. The manufacturers
this one bear swear up and down that it's it's
filtered so effectively, everything's child appropriate. Blah blah blah. They
actually get into the the psychological kind of scary ground
(05:17):
you're getting into with a child who can't fully comprehend
that this is not a living being, this is a
machine that's talking to me. And has become my friend, and,
as they pointed out, expresses regret that I'm going to
turn it off.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Oh boy, Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
For younger children, especially understanding their teddy or toy isn't
alive or magic can be hard. This is especially true
if teddy uses language that positions it as a trusted friend,
for example, by insisting it's a real buddy.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Yeah. I'm way more concerned about this than the dirty
words are going down. Whatever they're trying to call it,
red flagget or something like that, Red teamate to get
it to say things you don't want it to say,
no matter what the guard guardrails are. But I'm more
concerned about this introducing at a very young age an inanate,
(06:16):
inanimate object that for a child would seem alive.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Yeah, that's troubling. This is good stuff from these scientists.
Sounding human builds an artificial sense of trust and intimacy,
which can be especially problematic for children when combined with
sycophatic language choices or excessively agreeable validating an even flattering language.
Research shows young children are particularly prone to developing a
(06:43):
strong sense of emotional attachment to conversational AI agents.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I don't doubt that a bit. Glad.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
It's funny, like I have challenges with my kids that
you didn't have with your kids. I am now thinking,
I'm glad. I'm glad I don't have little kids that
are going to be dealing with the AI stuff at
such a young age. My kids didn't have to deal
with that.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Now they do. Mention that researchers have found some AI
toys discuss very adult topics such as sexual kinks and
fetishes and how to find knives and start fires.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Right, I think they may be able to narrow that
down as they get better at putting guardrails on stuff, restrictions,
things that you're not allowed to talk about, et cetera,
et cetera. Like I said, I'm more concerned about kids
developing relationships with these inanimate objects, which you absolutely what
one hundred percent would how would you not?
Speaker 1 (07:43):
And they include infinite chat settings, so you can just
chat and chat and chat and chat. And oh, by
the way, you should have read the terms of use
or the agreement whatever. The conversations are not private. They
open the door to infinite data collection.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Oh boy, yes, Michael, No, I'm just picturing little kids
using these toys instead of actual other little kids.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yeah, well, yeah, I was thinking about that if you're
an only child or you know, just often when you're
a kid or my kids, that you didn't have friends
around all the time as much as you wanted to.
Like girls, I think do this more than boys. Joe
would know, like tea parties and stuff like that where
you talk for stuffed animals, stuff like that. Oh yeah, well,
if you got something that's actually going to talk at
(08:28):
your tea party. M Yeah, it'd be pretty easy to
develop a relationship with it, really easy, Like it'd almost
be impossible to not.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
And it would erode those make belief skills that you're
just talking about. Yeah, which matters, and they point out
to childhood is a critical period when young people develop
the social and emotional skills to form and maintain trusting relationships,
and those skills are usually learned through interactions with actual
human beings they're fellow kids. Adults and child Children's Rights
(08:57):
ad and kids of raise concerns that excessive engagement with
AI agents may reduce opportunities for children to develop these skills.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Plus, the kid is going to hear what he wants
to hear, he or she wants to hear from the toy,
not necessarily from the other little kid.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Well exactly, And you actually anticipated my next point. It
reminds me of the difference between you know, a porn
or you know, a sex chat whatever. In that they
described as frictionless interactions, which is an unfortunate term to
use in this context because that would take the fun
(09:33):
out of it. But instead of the child learning real
human relationships from an early age onhn with the complexities
of them and the frustrations of them, but learning that, hey,
this is the way humans are, and it's fine. You've
got these frictionless interactions with a sycophatic data collecting AI
(09:55):
beast and so in the same way that you know,
whose minds have been poisoned by porn can't handle a
real sexual relationship. This is just relationships in general. I
hate this. Your kid is better off with a real bear.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
You're also gonna have parents that use these as babysitters.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
I was thinking about that too, for the you know,
split family, one parent's working, whatever situation. You got, Yeah,
sit in the corner and talk to your bear. I'm
gonna be on a zoom call.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Yeah, with my bumble date while I smoke crack. Right,
Joe goes to the worst case there, let's go right there?
Why not?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
I don't like my sister Jimmy the Bear. I think
she's a bitch. You should put poison in her cereal. Yeah,
they don't know where this is going.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
When you're engaged in bondage and you need to set
a fire, how would you do it? I can tell you, first,
get a knife.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
You're engaged in bondage and you want to set a
fire for instance.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Well, I was trying to come up with how to
incorporate all three, since that's what the list was. Sexually
explicit talk about kinks and where to find a knife
or start a fire. It's hard to imagine needing all
three of those at once. But you need the knife
to gut the ropes loose you're tied up. How you'll
start a fire if you're all first, you'll need a knife.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Buddy, get rid of AI and bring back the sock
puppets for kids. There you go, yes, Well, I guess
that's it.
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