December 2, 2025 • 7 mins
Is Erika’s husband having an affair with a chatbot?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You look for evidence. Are you paranoid or on the
right track? Catching the cheaters with Shantell's roses.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
If you feel like someone's cheating on you, I want
to get to the bottom of it. I'm going to
call them up offer a dozen free roses they could
send to anyone.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Special in their life.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
The goals that they would send the roses to their
significant other, but sometimes they don't, and that's when we
might catch a cheater.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
No, sometimes we use nicknames like Sweetheart or lover or Bubbles.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Often that is awesome.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Yeah, we're actually going to talk to Erica. Erica says
she found a secret phone her husband has been using
to text someone named Bubbles.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
So, good morning Erica.
Speaker 5 (00:38):
Good morning guys.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Hi, So explain how you found this phone in what
you saw?
Speaker 5 (00:43):
Yeah, So I was digging through drawers in the garage
just to find a tape measure, and I found this
random cell phone and it was locked, which was weird. So,
I mean I opened it and I looked at it
and it was basically like one contact in there, and
it was someone named Bubbles. And I know, but there
(01:06):
were really weeks and weeks of just inappropriate messages between
my husband and Bubbles.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Okay, so we're talking like burner phone for Bubbles, which
is never great.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Did you confront your husband?
Speaker 5 (01:21):
Yeah, I did. I talked to him about it, and
I mean he started crying. He was apologizing, and he
swore he never met Bubbles in person and that it's
just an online thing and that it might even be
a bot. And so he keeps calling it a virtual affair.
But he's saying, because it's a virtual affair, it doesn't
(01:41):
count because it's not real.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Okay, I'm curious because you read all of these messages.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
You said, weeks and weeks of messages.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Did you feel like you were reading something with like
an AI or a bot.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
Yeah. No, I mean it felt very real to me
reading him. But he said, yeah, he doesn't know if
it's a real person. He just he says, it's like
he's like a fantasy football league for him.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Fantasy football league.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Like, oh, because like I think I understand He's going, no, no,
it's fake. This is just like a a side entertainment.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
That's right. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
I don't agree with him, by the way, ok I'm
just saying I'm trying to figure out where he's kind
of coming from.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
And how long have you been married?
Speaker 5 (02:20):
Twelve years and we have two kids.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Oh, and just to be clear, he said it's only
been online, never in person. And if that's the case, like,
is this something you'd be able to move past?
Speaker 5 (02:32):
I mean, I'm not okay with it. I think maybe
we could work through it if it was only virtual
and he ends it. But if it's real, that's different
for me. But I think he knows that, so I
don't think you'd be honest about.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
It with me. So we're going to call up your husband.
His name's Jason.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
We're going to offer roses and we want to see, like,
does he want to send them to.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
You or too? Bubbles? Yeah, okay, then let's play a song.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
We're gonna talk for a second, just off air, get
some permission, and we will call.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Up Jason's roses and talking to Erica.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Erica has been married for over a decade to her
husband Jason, and she found a burner phone and on
this phone weeks upon weeks of very intimate, inappropriate text
messages with someone named Bubbles, and she confronted her husband
about this and Jason saying, no, no, you don't understand.
This is just a bot online. It's not a real person.
It's fake. So it's not it's not a real affair,
(03:29):
it's a virtual affair. Yeah, you can't be upset at
me about this.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I think we can.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
And we're not even sure if that's true or is
Bubbles a real Person's right? So, Erica, we're gonna call
up Jason. We're going to offer those roses and we're
going to see does he want to send him to you?
Does he want to send him to Bubbles? Is there
someone else?
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Like? Are you ready to do this?
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Yeah? Yeah, you guys, let's find out.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Okay. The only thing we need is permission to record.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Yeah, no, you have my permission to record him.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
You ready, Chantel, I'm ready.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
This is Jackson.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Hey Jason, my name is Chantell. How are you doing today?
Speaker 6 (04:10):
I'm doing okay? How about you?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
I'm good.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
So we are a new flower shop just opening here
in Salt Lake City, and we are doing a promotion
right now where we're giving away a dozen free roses.
And I was curious, would you be interested in sending
flowers to somebody today?
Speaker 6 (04:27):
Free flowers?
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Yeah, so they're totally free.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
It's just kind of our way of getting the word
out about our services and hopefully you would use us
again in the future if you like the free flowers.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
I don't know, roses don't really feel like the right thing.
Do you have anything else?
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Like?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
What are you what are you looking for?
Speaker 6 (04:52):
Maybe succulents or maybe a candle.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
We can definitely switch the red roses to a succulent
arrangement if you'd like.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Yeah, that sounds a little bit better.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Okay, who would you like me to send this arrangement to?
Speaker 6 (05:09):
Mmmm? Just send them to my wife Erica.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Okay, and then what do you want the card to
say to Erica?
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Uh, just get it to say I love you.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Just keep it simple, Okay, So just I love you.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Jason, Jason, Hey, I want to jump in as well.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
My name is John. You were talking to Chantell. We're
not a flower shop. We're a morning radio show on
Mixed one O five to one. We're here in celt Lake.
I need to let you know we're recording and it's
not just us, but your wife, Erica is also on
the phone. We were seeing who you wanted to send
These flowers? Are succulents?
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Yeah, pretty much?
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Because we heard about your secret phone and your messages
with Bubbles, So we want to know who is Bubbles.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
Look, we already went over this. Bubbles was a mistake.
It was stupid. I did something gum and I'm not
proud of it. I told Erica that I'm done with it.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Okay, right, But is Bubbles a real person or not?
Speaker 6 (06:07):
It was just somebody I was talking to online. I've
never met him. I was literally just texting on the screen. Honestly,
for all I know, it could be Ai or Catfish.
I was just bored. It was an escape, and I
know it was wrong, but it's not a real life affair.
It was virtual.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
You bought another phone just to talk to her. I
mean that doesn't sound like bored, Jason. That sounds like
something is going on.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
People don't usually go get a burner phone for something
that's not real.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
I mean, I know how it looks. And I said,
I'm embarrassed. I got rid of the phone. I told
her I'm done, and I don't know what else to say.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
You know, I'm curious though, because Chantella, when she offered
you the roses, you were like hesitant, and then you
were like, let me change the succulents, Like, yeah, were
the succulents.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Sending roses to your wife? Why are you afraid about
being romantic?
Speaker 6 (07:01):
Yeah, well, I mean I'm just trying to get something
cool from the bathroom, you know, for free. So I
like succulents. They last longer. That's it.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
God, that's so dumb, I don't I honestly, Jason didn't
know that you even knew what succulents were until today,
which I think is a good reminder of how little
I know about what's going on beneath the surface, and
how little I know about bubbles Ka.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
How are we feeling right now? He did send the
roses to.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
You, sculent sent succulents to me? Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Yeah, I'm not sure if we've solved anything that caught
him in anything.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Succulents do last longer, that is true.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Yeah, I mean I appreciate it.
You look for evidence. Are you paranoid or on the
right track? Catching the cheaters with Shantell's roses.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
If you feel like someone's cheating on you, I want
to get to the bottom of it. I'm going to
call them up offer a dozen free roses they could
send to anyone.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Special in their life.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
The goals that they would send the roses to their
significant other, but sometimes they don't, and that's when we
might catch a cheater.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
No, sometimes we use nicknames like Sweetheart or lover or Bubbles.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Often that is awesome.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Yeah, we're actually going to talk to Erica. Erica says
she found a secret phone her husband has been using
to text someone named Bubbles.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
So, good morning Erica.
Speaker 5 (00:38):
Good morning guys.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Hi, So explain how you found this phone in what
you saw?
Speaker 5 (00:43):
Yeah, So I was digging through drawers in the garage
just to find a tape measure, and I found this
random cell phone and it was locked, which was weird. So,
I mean I opened it and I looked at it
and it was basically like one contact in there, and
it was someone named Bubbles. And I know, but there
(01:06):
were really weeks and weeks of just inappropriate messages between
my husband and Bubbles.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Okay, so we're talking like burner phone for Bubbles, which
is never great.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Did you confront your husband?
Speaker 5 (01:21):
Yeah, I did. I talked to him about it, and
I mean he started crying. He was apologizing, and he
swore he never met Bubbles in person and that it's
just an online thing and that it might even be
a bot. And so he keeps calling it a virtual affair.
But he's saying, because it's a virtual affair, it doesn't
(01:41):
count because it's not real.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Okay, I'm curious because you read all of these messages.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
You said, weeks and weeks of messages.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Did you feel like you were reading something with like
an AI or a bot.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
Yeah. No, I mean it felt very real to me
reading him. But he said, yeah, he doesn't know if
it's a real person. He just he says, it's like
he's like a fantasy football league for him.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Fantasy football league.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Like, oh, because like I think I understand He's going, no, no,
it's fake. This is just like a a side entertainment.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
That's right. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
I don't agree with him, by the way, ok I'm
just saying I'm trying to figure out where he's kind
of coming from.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
And how long have you been married?
Speaker 5 (02:20):
Twelve years and we have two kids.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Oh, and just to be clear, he said it's only
been online, never in person. And if that's the case, like,
is this something you'd be able to move past?
Speaker 5 (02:32):
I mean, I'm not okay with it. I think maybe
we could work through it if it was only virtual
and he ends it. But if it's real, that's different
for me. But I think he knows that, so I
don't think you'd be honest about.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
It with me. So we're going to call up your husband.
His name's Jason.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
We're going to offer roses and we want to see, like,
does he want to send them to.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
You or too? Bubbles? Yeah, okay, then let's play a song.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
We're gonna talk for a second, just off air, get
some permission, and we will call.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Up Jason's roses and talking to Erica.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Erica has been married for over a decade to her
husband Jason, and she found a burner phone and on
this phone weeks upon weeks of very intimate, inappropriate text
messages with someone named Bubbles, and she confronted her husband
about this and Jason saying, no, no, you don't understand.
This is just a bot online. It's not a real person.
It's fake. So it's not it's not a real affair,
(03:29):
it's a virtual affair. Yeah, you can't be upset at
me about this.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I think we can.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
And we're not even sure if that's true or is
Bubbles a real Person's right? So, Erica, we're gonna call
up Jason. We're going to offer those roses and we're
going to see does he want to send him to you?
Does he want to send him to Bubbles? Is there
someone else?
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Like? Are you ready to do this?
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Yeah? Yeah, you guys, let's find out.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Okay. The only thing we need is permission to record.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Yeah, no, you have my permission to record him.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
You ready, Chantel, I'm ready.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
This is Jackson.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Hey Jason, my name is Chantell. How are you doing today?
Speaker 6 (04:10):
I'm doing okay? How about you?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
I'm good.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
So we are a new flower shop just opening here
in Salt Lake City, and we are doing a promotion
right now where we're giving away a dozen free roses.
And I was curious, would you be interested in sending
flowers to somebody today?
Speaker 6 (04:27):
Free flowers?
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Yeah, so they're totally free.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
It's just kind of our way of getting the word
out about our services and hopefully you would use us
again in the future if you like the free flowers.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
I don't know, roses don't really feel like the right thing.
Do you have anything else?
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Like?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
What are you what are you looking for?
Speaker 6 (04:52):
Maybe succulents or maybe a candle.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
We can definitely switch the red roses to a succulent
arrangement if you'd like.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Yeah, that sounds a little bit better.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Okay, who would you like me to send this arrangement to?
Speaker 6 (05:09):
Mmmm? Just send them to my wife Erica.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Okay, and then what do you want the card to
say to Erica?
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Uh, just get it to say I love you.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Just keep it simple, Okay, So just I love you.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Jason, Jason, Hey, I want to jump in as well.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
My name is John. You were talking to Chantell. We're
not a flower shop. We're a morning radio show on
Mixed one O five to one. We're here in celt Lake.
I need to let you know we're recording and it's
not just us, but your wife, Erica is also on
the phone. We were seeing who you wanted to send
These flowers? Are succulents?
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Yeah, pretty much?
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Because we heard about your secret phone and your messages
with Bubbles, So we want to know who is Bubbles.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
Look, we already went over this. Bubbles was a mistake.
It was stupid. I did something gum and I'm not
proud of it. I told Erica that I'm done with it.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Okay, right, But is Bubbles a real person or not?
Speaker 6 (06:07):
It was just somebody I was talking to online. I've
never met him. I was literally just texting on the screen. Honestly,
for all I know, it could be Ai or Catfish.
I was just bored. It was an escape, and I
know it was wrong, but it's not a real life affair.
It was virtual.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
You bought another phone just to talk to her. I
mean that doesn't sound like bored, Jason. That sounds like
something is going on.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
People don't usually go get a burner phone for something
that's not real.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
I mean, I know how it looks. And I said,
I'm embarrassed. I got rid of the phone. I told
her I'm done, and I don't know what else to say.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
You know, I'm curious though, because Chantella, when she offered
you the roses, you were like hesitant, and then you
were like, let me change the succulents, Like, yeah, were
the succulents.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Sending roses to your wife? Why are you afraid about
being romantic?
Speaker 6 (07:01):
Yeah, well, I mean I'm just trying to get something
cool from the bathroom, you know, for free. So I
like succulents. They last longer. That's it.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
God, that's so dumb, I don't I honestly, Jason didn't
know that you even knew what succulents were until today,
which I think is a good reminder of how little
I know about what's going on beneath the surface, and
how little I know about bubbles Ka.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
How are we feeling right now? He did send the
roses to.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
You, sculent sent succulents to me? Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Yeah, I'm not sure if we've solved anything that caught
him in anything.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Succulents do last longer, that is true.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Yeah, I mean I appreciate it.
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