Episode 120: M3gan & AI raising kids - is this the future?

Through the lens of dark comedy/horror-satire, M3gan is giving you predictive programming. It's telling you that, soon enough, AI bots will take over childrearing duties. Along with mass surveillance of said kids. I feel like Gracchus in Gladiator: "He'll bring them death, and they will love him for it."

⚠️ Spoilers lie ahead.

Also: what's the deal with the hantavirus mess? Are we headed for 'Rona Redux?

Links:

https://www.today.com/health/news/hantavirus-pandemic-risk-2026-cruise-ship-outbreak-covid-rcna344538

https://consaracytheories.com/f/of-course-theyre-not-concerned

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Transcript

Transcription by Otter.ai.  Please forgive any typos!

Sara Causey discusses the 2022 film "M3GAN," arguing it predicts AI taking over child-rearing. She then shifts to current events, expressing skepticism about the official story of Gene Hackman and his wife dying from hantavirus, citing their clean living conditions. Sara links the hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship to potential future pandemics and lockdowns, emphasizing the need for preparedness. She shares personal anecdotes about people having children for the wrong reasons, predicting AI will eventually take over childcare, and warns of the surveillance and control implications. Sara concludes by highlighting the dystopian future portrayed in "M3GAN."

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

M3gan film, predictive programming, AI child rearing, hantavirus outbreak, Gene Hackman, supply chain issues, lockdowns, surveillance state, economic recovery, childless by choice, emotional affairs, AI robots, child-rearing duties, M3gan 2.0, Soulm8te sequel.

Welcome to con-sara-cy theories. Are you ready to ask questions you shouldn't and find information you're not supposed to know? Well, you're in the right place. Here is your host, Sara Causey.

Hello, hello, and thanks for tuning in. In tonight's episode, I will be talking about the 2022 film Megan, and how it is absolutely predictive programming, about how AI will take over child rearing duties, even though it's horror satire, horror comedy, dark comedy, I argue it is still predictive programming, and it's not even hidden in the movie. It's pretty overt. However, before we can get there, we need to take a pause and go into some more current events. I haven't heard anything else about attempted pop pops of the Orange Man? I think maybe that's gone by the wayside for a little while, because now people are freaked out about hantavirus, and everybody wants to know, are we going to go on lockdowns again? Are we about to get an encore, unwanted performance of the where we have shutdowns and two weeks to flatten the curve, that turns into, like, three to four years to flatten the curve, and people are panicking and stores are running out of things, and quote, unquote, supply chain issues, etc, are we really going to have to go through all of that mess again. The bottom line is, I don't know. I believe it's better to be prepared than scared. I always say on any of my podcasts, whether I'm the host or whether I am a guest on somebody else's platform, I don't give you advice and I don't tell you what to do. We're all adults here. You have to critically think for yourself and make your own decisions about what's best for you and your family. Thinking back to what the Rona was like. We had the so called shortages and the so called supply chain issues. Who really knows what was up with all of that? But you go to the store and things like soap and hand sanitizer would be in short supply. And then for a while, all of that was rationed, paper products as well, toilet paper, paper towels, Kleenex. There were times of meat rationing. Some of you may have forgotten about that. But if you went to the grocery store or some of the Super Centers, they would tell you you can have one poultry or fish product and one red meat product. So like, if you went in and got a pound of ground beef and a package of chicken breast for the family, that's all you were allowed to buy. Now I don't know if you could go back two or three days later and buy another allotment. I never got that granular with it, but I just remember that that that kind of rationing was going on. Could something like that come back? It's possible. Obviously, I don't have a crystal ball. I can't tell you 100% for sure that it can or that it can't. I just think if it were me, I would want to say I'm going to keep an eye on this and make some decisions about what I feel is best for myself and my loved ones, because we just don't know. I was suspicious, and I found the whole damn thing weird last February when we heard about Gene Hackman and his wife, because it's like Hantavirus. What the fuck I only knew about it somewhat. I had heard about Hantavirus being something that you can get from like mouse and rat droppings. I live on a farm. I'm a working farm and ranch, so it is something that I've heard of, but it's also rare. It's not something that people get just all the time, every day, and Gene Hackman and his wife were living in a nice house in Santa Fe a nice house and a nice neighborhood. Think back to some of those episodes of Hoarders, and some of the absolute insane craziness that went on on hoarders. There would be times that somebody would let their house go to the point where it was like a toxic waste dump. And there would be possums and raccoons coming in, making burrows, sleeping in the house with them, and freely peeing and pooping everywhere. There was also the episode of The Rat Man. That guy lived in the desert, somewhere in Southern California, and he was on season three. You can go, you can go back and watch it if you've never seen it. Wow. It is really quite something. But he had more than 2000 rats loose in his house. They had eaten chunks of the house and and he looked at them like they were. Pets, they would crawl all over him, and it was just, you know, it was, it was sad, because he was grieving. His wife had passed away, and he started hoarding rats to cope with it. And people do all kinds of things when they're under extreme grief, but it's like, okay, if somebody's on hoarders and they had a house full of rats. They had raccoons and possums coming in, making burrows and peeing and crapping everywhere. And then you heard, well, they died from Hantavirus. It would make sense. You would say, Well, yeah, like they were living in a house that had 1000s, literally 1000s of motherfucking rats. It would have some sense to you, but Gene Hackman and his wife living in a very nice home in Santa Fe and we're expected to believe that somehow this woman got antivirus. I don't believe that. I'm sorry. I don't the official story is that she Betsy, his wife, got sick with hantavirus, and she passed away. She was like 65 and he was 95 so she and I, and had I had also heard that she was like something of a health nut and a fitness person. So that makes it even less believable to me. Anyway, the official story is that she's 65 she gets anti virus, and she passes away in their home. He has heart problems as well as Alzheimer's, and so he lives for like, a week after she dies, and he's just kind of puttering around the house, not sure of what's going on. Probably was not taking his medication, probably was not eating or drinking, and he had some type of cardiac event and died a week later. So we're told she dies from Hantavirus somehow in a very nice house that doesn't look like Hoarders and doesn't have rats free roaming everywhere, and then he passes away because his caregiver has passed away and he's not capable of taking care of himself. And we're told later that an environmental assessment of the property finds that there were deer mice living in some of their outbuildings, not in the main house, but in some of their outbuildings. And so was she going out doing projects in a shed? Was she going out getting gardening tools or implements from one of these outbuildings and inhaled the droppings or whatever, and then that gave her the hantavirus, and she died. There was also a dog that was pinned up. Maybe the dog had had veterinary care or something, and then it died too tragically, because nobody was able to get it out of its carrier. Hmm, I just the whole thing to me sounded bizarre, and I just didn't believe it. I mean, they can say, well, there were dead, dead rodents, and there were rodent nests, and, you know, so even though they weren't in the main house and they weren't living, like the Rat Man on hoarders, like, it's still totally possible that this happened. And it's like, if you say so, I didn't believe it, then I don't believe it now, and it's, you know, odd that we're bringing it up on an episode where I'm going to talk about Megan being predictive programming for robots taking over child rearing. Because is it possible that this story that, to me sounds like complete bullshit, was predictive programming for where we're at now? People are certainly looking it up like, didn't that happen to Gene Hackman and his wife? What's up with this Hantavirus? So you have people that are panicking today, if you just, if you just start Googling things like Hantavirus a cruise ship trying to find out more, you're going to see headlines like CNN says, All passengers evacuated from Hantavirus hit cruise ship the Atlantic asks, How does it spread? Doesn't that sound ominous, right? Isn't isn't that just like the beginning of it? How does it spread? W, B, I, R. News reports, Americans exposed to Hantavirus on cruise ship quarantining, USA, today, more Hantavirus cases are expected. Who? Chief says, so we can guess again. Here we go, here we go, here we go. That's pretty fucking ominous, in my opinion. NBC News, how easily does the Andes Hantavirus spread? What to know after a cruise ship victims, how passengers from Hantavirus hit cruise ship are quarantining in the US. That's from the Washington Post. People.com antivirus cruise passenger in very critical condition. So here we go. We have the WHO saying that more Hantavirus cases are expected. Does that mean it will turn into a full blown pandemic with shutdowns and lockdowns? I don't know, but again, I'm telling you, it's possible. I've already heard the news conference from Australia where they're like, Yeah, we still have the the lockdown facilities, the quarantine facilities from the that and we didn't tear those down so we can put the hand to virus people there, and it's like, Oh, God. And. It does seem like I have a number of listeners from Australia and New Zealand. So big shout out to y'all. Thank you for tip for tuning in every week. It seems like y'all are the incubation chamber for a lot of this shit. Man, what is what is going on down there? What is up with it? It's always like, well, we've been doing it to these people in Australia and New Zealand. First, it's like, why that's that is just up. So when we look at the official story thus far. Now keep in mind this is all subject to change, because they change official narratives on a dime whenever they want to. The official narrative so far is that there was a May 2026, Hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius cruise ship. It likely started when a Dutch couple got the Andes version, the Andes Virus strain version of the hantavirus, during a pre cruise bird watching trip. So here we go with it, with the animals again. All right. Looks like the we were told that that came from bats and wet markets. Somebody was eating bat stew, or somebody was messing around with bats and pangolins and shouldn't have been. People were eating things that they shouldn't have been, or buying things from a wet market that they shouldn't have been, which you know that that hits us on so many levels. It's something foreign, it's something other, it's something that sounds fucked up, and it's also xenophobic, because it's like, oh, those people over there that eat weird shit were eating weird shit, and they shouldn't have been. I might remind you that we heard very similar things about HIV AIDS, somebody. I mean, the story that went around in the 80s was that supposedly HIV AIDS showed up because somebody, some lonely person in the African bush, was having sex with primates, and that's how HIV AIDS came about. Meanwhile, that ain't how HIV AIDS came about. Okay? I may try to do an episode at some point about what really happened Plum Island and the communities that were intentionally targeted with the virus, because that's what Nazis do. And I keep goddamn telling you that over and over again, Nazis want to start with people that they feel the main population won't defend. They use them as their starting point. They use them as their guinea pigs. And then it spreads out to Gen pop. I'd have to really think about how I could record it to not get myself pulled off the air. But just HIV didn't start from some lonely guy that was going around having sex with primates in the African bush. And I highly doubt that this started from a bird watching trip. Anyway, supposedly, this Dutch couple goes on a pre cruise bird watching trip somewhere in like Southern Argentina or Chile. While they're there doing their bird watching, they're exposed to infected rodents that carry this strain of the Andes version of the Hantavirus. Hantavirus, however you want to say it, the couple gets on this Honda's cruise ship on April 1 the virus spreads to other people that are on board. And we're told it's rare. It's rare for this to be transmitted person to person. Usually, people will get it through contact with dead rodents, their droppings, their urine and so forth. But now we have this super rare which, again, is fear porn, isn't it? It's the super rare person to person transmission. So we're told that the initial infection probably started with this 70 year old man and 69 year old woman who went on the bird watching trip before they boarded the ship. The man was asymptomatic, so we're told, until April the sixth, and then he dies on the ship on April 11, according to the WHO his wife later gets symptoms and she dies in South Africa on April 26 we're told that the offending virus is the Andes Virus, which is a rare strain. So here we go with rare again, rare person to person. Rare strain, a rare strain of Hantavirus known to be capable of human to human transmission through close contact. So like if you're sharing a cabin, if you are sharing bodily fluids, you could potentially contract this Andes Virus. We're also told that a German woman passed away and several others took ill, so then we have this international investigation and a quarantine of the vessel. So an alternative theory that's still officially accepted is it could be that the Dutch couple were like patients zero and one, essentially. But it's also possible that the virus could have been picked up whenever this ship stopped at various places along the African coast where the ship docked. Maybe infected rodents could have come in contact. Of people at that point in time, but it all sounds very scary and it all sounds very kooky. It's rare. It's crazy today.com. Here's the headline for you from six hours ago. I'm recording this on May the 12th, the afternoon of Tuesday, May the 12th, so it can go live tomorrow night. Could the Hantavirus cruise ship outbreak lead to a pandemic. Experts explain the risk level. The byline reads, an outbreak of Hantavirus has killed three on a cruise ship. Should you be worried? What to know about the Andes strain, how the virus spreads and symptoms? Right now, we're told that. Dr tedro says, based on scientific assessment and based on evidence, the risk to the public is low. But we heard this before with the Rona. This is another thing that happens with official narratives and official control. You don't panic until you're told to panic. It's about control. It reminds me of those like, push me, pull me. Type dolls, a pull along toy. You're you go when you're told to go, you stop when you're told to stop, you panic. When you're told to panic, you sit down and shut up and don't worry about it when you're told to do that. AJ has pictures of these medical professionals who are dressed in beekeeper suits with respirators. It's like we're going to bring in the medics and we're going to have them decked out like the movie outbreak, to come in and deal with these infected patients. But then if you look the cops that are standing right behind these people in the beekeeper outfits don't have any PPE at all. They don't even have on a little stupid surgical mask. They have no PPE whatsoever. So I think it is worth asking the question, if this is real and this is serious, it's like, Why do you have people in beekeeper suits, but then the people standing directly behind them who are in law enforcement have no PPE at all. Is this just cosplay? Is it theater? Is it fear porn? That's also a possibility. And AJ has been all over the place because, on the one hand, he is telling people we had the Rona because the Orange Man had gotten the economy in such good shape that the globalists had to crash it. They had to come up with a way to derail his plan. America was winning so hard, and the average American was doing so good financially that the globalists had to come in and wreck everything by launching the on the populace and grinding everything to a halt. That's his theory. And so we're told now that he the Orange Man, is back and he he's getting things organized. We're starting to crawl out from the bad economic situation that we had with senile old man. And so now the globalists have to derail him again. But then, on the other hand, sometimes he'll be like, this could just be fake. These could be crisis actors and like it's one thing to theorize on the air and say, Here are a list of possibilities. It's another thing to just Flippity flop all the time. I don't think that we are in anything right now resembling an economic recovery. I'm like, they want to derail what fucking recovery people are broke. I still maintain that we're in a silent depression. The job market is absolutely in the shit, and it has been for a long time. I've told you before, Shadow stats finally just gave up. They're not even reporting on what they think the current unemployment rate is anymore. They just walk away. And I don't blame them for that. I believe we're in a silent depression. I think there are a lot of people hurting and suffering that have never recovered, and to me, the argument that this is being done to quote, unquote, derail the Orange Man and some supposed economic recovery. I don't fucking believe it. If they do it, they'll have a reason. But I don't think that's the reason. On the conspiracy theories blog on January 20, 2024 I published a blog post. Of course, they're not concerned, and it was in reference to the headline from CNBC dated January 18, 2024 US executives in Davos see a Trump victory in 2024 and no cause for concern. The wefer said we think he's going back in office, and we're not worried about it. That should tell you everything that you need to know if you still think that there's going to be some magical politician that shows up and saves the day for you. Some knight in shining armor. Wow, you do. I'm thinking of Flavor Flav you better wake up and smell the real flavor, because, no, it's not going to happen. They knew he was going back in they were fine with it. If they have another pandemic, if they have more lockdowns and shutdowns and fucking stimmy checks and shit. You can bet there's a reason for it, but it's not because they're trying to derail the orange man. He's one of them. That's the whole reason why they're like, Hey, he's going back in office, and we're fine with it. If they didn't want him in office, he wouldn't be in office again. I don't give you advice. I don't tell you what to do or what not to do. You have to make those decisions for yourself and your family to the best of your ability. The most that I will say is I just think it's important to keep a close eye on it, so that you're not behind the eight ball if this thing does blow up. If they tell you for two months, don't panic. It's nothing to worry about, and then suddenly everything shuts down. So we're in May right now, if it's July or August, and suddenly, kaboom, we're told to all quarantine at home. Don't be caught with your pants down. Don't let it be a surprise. This time around, we'll hope and pray that that doesn't happen. Nobody fucking wants that, except these billionaires. Because look, think about how much wealth got squeezed up. Think of it like somebody sucking a milkshake up through a straw. There was a humongous wealth transfer. Oxfam went to WEF and told the lefters how much money they sucked up, how much wealth got transferred up during the last pandemic. You think they wouldn't do that again to get even more money to break even more people, please don't let yourself be caught off guard. All right. Deep breath. Speaking of predictive programming, let's switch now to the movie Megan. Spoilers will be here. If you have not seen it, I recommend that you do. It is a movie worth watching. It's not particularly long, and it is worth watching. 

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So as I mentioned, Megan is a Dark Comedy, Horror, satire type of film about an AI doll named Megan, who develops consciousness. It premiered in LA in December of 2022 and then it released to the US, more broadly, in January of 2023 the basic story is this. There's an eight year old girl named Cady who gets sent to live with her aunt Gemma, after her parents die in a car wreck, and Gemma is a robotics wizard at this high tech toy company called funky. And I think they live in Seattle. The movie opens with this corny commercial with this thing that looks about like a Furby, except it's filming the kid. It has AI in it. It's interacting with the kid, and you can, like, feed it fake food, and it'll poop out fake pellets, but it's like a nanny cam, a surveillance device, a fake buddy and a Furby for the kid, all in one body. And Cady has one of these little toys because of Gemma working at the toy company, that makes them the parents are on some kind of a road trip. They're in maybe a national park or something, but it's snowing. The guy lies to the park ranger and says that his vehicle has all wheel drive. It does not. He's going all over the road. They get in white out conditions. They can't see what's going on. So the mom is like, you know, you shouldn't have lied. We should at the very least, if we can't turn around, we should pull over somewhere until we're not in white out conditions, because you can't even see the road anymore. He makes some comment about a snow plow should be through here soon. Well, if the snow plow comes through and it hits them, Katie is the only one who survives. The parents pass away, and then that's how her aunt, Gemma winds up with custody of her. However, Gemma doesn't have any kids. You can tell she's not the child having type so it's like, Okay, Jim is a workaholic. Katie is grief stricken. How's this going to work? Okay, on the job. Gemma is developing this prototype for Megan, a child sized, human looking robot doll that's powered by AI. The idea is this will be the last toy that you'll ever buy. Yeah, it's going to be expensive as hell, but it's the last toy you'll ever have to buy for them, because instead of buying them something that they play with for a month or two and then they're bored with it, or they like the box more than the toy that came. Inside the box. This is going to be something that the kid will go absolutely nuts for. And it also becomes a good solution to the problem with Katie and Gemma, because it's sort of like I want to continue to be a workaholic. I don't really want to raise you as a daughter now. I want you to have a buddy other than me, so that you stay occupied and out of my hair. Hmm, doesn't that sound very modern? A very modern, first world problem. So Gemma is working on this project, but it's not completely going well. They have some unsuccessful tests, and so Jim is boss. David tells her to stop working on it. Make, just make a better version, a cheaper version of the Furby type toy, and forget about this. Gemma and Katie at home are having a tough time of it, but Katie starts interacting with this kind of, I don't know. It's almost like a primitive Iron Man type robot that Gemma had created when she was going to university. So then Gemma thinks, like, Okay, well, Katie's coming out of her shell with this robot that I named Bruce. She thinks it's the coolest thing ever. And she even makes the comment to Gemma, like, if I had a toy like this, I'd never ask for anything else. This would keep me entertained. I wouldn't need anything else if I had this so that that gives her the push that she needs to keep working on Megan. So she makes this prototype of Megan, and then she, like, quote, unquote, pairs it with Katie and gives it this directive, like, you are supposed to protect Katie. Katie is your person. You're not worried about anybody else. You're just focused on bonding. You know, I'm using air quotes, you're bonding with Katie? And so after they do a test, and they see that Katie and Megan are really like, taking to each other, like Katie goes into the test, and she's all sad and everything, but then she sees they see the people observing this test, see Megan comforting her, and it's like, wow, there's really a future here. Instead of worrying about the Furby type toy, we're going to put all of our resources into this. This is the money maker. Katie has like a grief counselor, a therapist who comes by periodically to have sessions with her, and she gets worried that Katie is getting too attached to Megan, but Katie is basically like, I'm not giving her up. Well, Megan is also getting unhealth unhealthily attached to Katie as well. So they're both in this weird, gosh, how would you even describe it? I mean, codependent is, I guess, one way to put it, they're in a toxic relationship with each other. One day when Katie is playing in the yard. She's like, you know, firing off these kind of non, non sharp arrows, you know, they have, like the little suction thing on the end of them, and one of them goes through the fence and winds up in the yard of a dog that's known to be a butt hole. It's a butt hole dog. The dog bites Katie when she tries to get the arrow, and so then Megan kills the dog. You don't see any of that happening. You don't know for sure what she's done, but obviously you suspect also Gemma is worried about Katie not being in school, and like, it's kind of like, okay, you've had this time to grieve, and you're getting too attached to Megan. It's like your whole world is Megan, and that's not what needs to happen to you. So she takes her to like, Oh, God, what's it called? I've lost the phrase for it, but it's basically like a trial type day. Come on out here and see what this school is like. It's like a special school where they do more things outdoors, and they don't just sit around in a classroom. So she goes to this trial type day, and there's a boy who's rude to her, he bullies her, and Megan sees what's going on, and even though she's been powered off and put on the toy table, she sees what's going on, she shows up and rips the kid's ear off and then chases him until he gets shoved down a hill and then gets run over by a passing car. This was moments where you're like, especially in horror, satire, black comedy, we're like, well, that little jerk wad had it coming. The neighbor is concerned about the dog who's disappeared, so Megan shows up in the middle of the night and shoots her with a nail gun and then also sprays like herbicide or insecticide or something all over until she dies. Gemma becomes suspicious of Megan, because it's like anybody who even mildly offends Katie seems to have a tendency to come up dead, and I feel like it's probably Megan who's involved in it. Gemma tries to access Megan's video logs to see exactly what she's been up to, but she can't the files have either been corrupted or deleted, so that freaks her out even more. She powers Megan off and takes her back to the lab at the toy company. And she's like, we got to get. Some bugs worked out here, iron out the kinks, because we can't launch an entire product line of robots that are acting in this way. And without Megan being around, it's like Katie and Gemma are trying to make up with each other a little bit, get to know each other a little bit more. And it's like I realized that I haven't been the best surrogate mom to you, and I need to make some changes to that, like you can't get dependent on Megan, and I need to be less of a workaholic. So it's like they're trying in their relationship to make things better. The toy company still wants to launch Megan, and they're just seeing dollar signs, right? They're not worried about the possible consequences. They're just seeing the possible money, and Megan turns herself on and goes on a killing spree. Basically, she kills David the boss and his assistant, Kurt in an elevator, and it's done in a pretty, like theatrical, comical way. She steals a car and then drives back to Gemma's house. She confronts Gemma, and she's like, you're a crappy mother, and I really need to be Katie's parent. I could be a better parent to her than you, and you need to just get the hell out of the way. Go back to the lab, go back to being career obsessed, and leave me to raise this kid. Gemma tries to stop Megan, but Megan overpowers her. It winds up being Katie who saves Gemma because he she uses the kind of Iron Man looking robot Bruce, to tear Megan apart. However, Megan's top part still remains active, and then she goes after Katie. Gemma is able to expose a processing chip in Megan's head. Katie stabs it with a screwdriver or a tool of some kind, and we think at that point that Megan has been deactivated, the police come and as Katie and Gemma leave the house, we see that there's like, this security camera that's been wired into Gemma's security system that powers itself on and turns toward them like it's looking at them. So it's a bit like, okay, we're leaving room for a sequel, which they did make, and I'll cover in another episode. They're leaving room for a sequel like, Hmm, has Megan pulled an Ultron and put her consciousness into a different device so that she can still surveil Katie and Gemma. Something else interesting that happens in this film is that when Gemma is talking about the benefits of a doll like Megan, she overtly says, this doll can take over for you. It can it has infinite patience, and it can do the things that you either can't do or don't want to do. And it shows Megan telling Katie, like, Did you remember to wash your hands? Did you remember to flush the toilet? And it really struck me the very first time that I watched it, and then watching it again, it became even clearer to me. I was like, this is predictive programming. It has to be, I said before in a previous episode. You know, we have people that are having kids, and they don't even seem to know why. It's not really because they have some burning desire to be a parent. It's like they're having kids as status symbols, or they're doing it to conform. Their parents have said, We're hungry for grandkids, and you better hurry up and do it, or they just move through life on autopilot, and I want to tell a couple of stories about that people remember stories much better than statistics. I have to be necessarily vague, and you'll understand why there was a woman I used to know who I will simply call Sally, not her real name, just just, just a pseudonym. Sally had married her husband right out of college, but they had been together a long time. They were like, middle school sweethearts. They started dating each other in like, sixth or seventh grade, and never broke up. They stayed together the whole time, and it was like, Okay, we we went to high school together, and then we went to college together, and we moved in. We lived together. We had an apartment together when we were in college. And so whenever college was over with, it just was a very natural, normal thing to go ahead and officially get legally married. And then we got a better place after we both started working and making our own money, and we've just been together ever since. I can't imagine being with anybody else. Her husband at work had met somebody, and he told her that it was strictly an emotional affair, that he was not sleeping with this woman. He had never cheated on her and never slept with any other woman. She was the only one that this colleague it was. It was an emotional affair, that he felt like the two of them had more in common, and that the two of them shared some similar interests, a similar sense of humor and so forth, but that he was not having sex with her or kissing her or doing. Heavy Petting or anything. He claimed that there had been no physical contact. I don't know that. I believe that personally, because I know that when you get in that kind of a dynamic with somebody, you have the tendency to want to, you know, have a physical outlet for it, especially if the two of you are attracted to each other, if you're heterosexual, and you're talking about a man and a woman like it's it's probably going to go in that direction. I'm just saying. And I don't think she fully believed him either. She told him, I'm giving you a month to leave that job because you can't stay around her. I'm not, I'm not going to have you coming in my house living with me, saying that you're involved emotionally with another woman. That's not right? You wouldn't want me to see a man day in and day out if I told you I was having an emotional affair with him. So make sure that you get away from her. He only half assedly looks for another job during that month, and at the end of it, she's like, okay, is that woman still working there with you? Yeah, she is okay, and you don't have another job. So it's time for us to really make some tough decisions here. I'm not going to let you continue going around that woman. We more or less tells her, I don't really want to get another job and I don't want to stop seeing this woman. We're not doing anything wrong. So if you can't live with this, and let me have this woman as a friend, we may just have to get a divorce. She freaks, totally freaks, and she tells me, the only thing I can do to save this marriage, the one thing, the nuclear option, the red button that I can hit is to get pregnant. If I get pregnant with his kid, he won't leave. Now they had talked about being childless by choice, and she had told me that she did not like kids and did not want kids, but she said, in order to save my marriage, I will get pregnant and have a kid, because I feel like the kid will save my marriage. And I was like, just like, I am on this podcast, like, I don't give you advice and I don't tell you what to do. I was like, oh shit, man. Like, that's a big deal. You know, when you become somebody's parent, that's forever. It's not just 18 years you are that person's parent forever. Are you sure about this? Yeah, yeah, I want to save my marriage bad enough that I'll do it. She gets pregnant, and she was right. The guy said, I will now find another job and get away from that woman, because I'm not. It would be one thing to get a divorce without kids, but I'm not going to compromise a situation where my wife is pregnant. Fast forward in time they stay married for another two, three years, about the time that the kid is a toddler, they got a divorce anyway, because the issues that had driven him to look for somebody outside the marriage, and then the issues that led her to try to trap him in the marriage with a kid were still there. So she wound up with a kid that she didn't even really feel particularly bonded to and that she had as a tactic, as a manipulation tactic, to try to keep her husband in that marriage. All right, so there's one there's one story for you. Here's another story for you. I'll just call this Lady Jane Doe. Obviously not her real name. She she was a career woman. She took her career very seriously, and she had a husband that she was absolutely crazy about. And after I finally saw the guy, but she was talking about this, this guy, in like, almost reverential terms. And after I finally saw the guy, I was like, Oh, see, it was what happened here, because he looked a lot like Kelly ripa's husband, the soap opera star. He was, he was a very attractive man. And I thought, Okay, I see now why. She gushes about him all the time. He wanted to have kids. She didn't. They started out with the agreement when they first got married, when they were dating, and then when they first got married, that they would not have kids. She told him, I do not want to have kids. I want to be a career woman. That's it. I want for us to be dinks, dual income, no kids. He said he was fine with that. About five, six years into the marriage, he tells her that his biological clock is ticking, and that if she's not willing to allow him to be a father, that he will divorce her and go find a woman who will get pregnant with his child. She acquiesces and tells him, I don't really want to do this, but I will have one. You're not going to come back and ask me for another one. I'm giving you the opportunity to be a dad. I'm going to compromise my original position here and get pregnant with a kid for you. And that's how she put it, for you. Not I want to do this, not I want a parent. I want a mother or child, but I'm doing this for you. So he says, that's fine. She gets pregnant, has a kid, and it was almost the same story as Sally about the time that the kid was a toddler. They got a divorce anyway, and she told me one night, it was one of those things. That you know you're not supposed to ever say out loud. She told me one night, if I had everything to do over again, I never would have done it. I love my kid. I want the absolute best for her. I hope that she has a good life. But if I had it to do all over again, whenever he told me, If you will not give me a child and let me be a father. I'll have to leave you and go find a woman who will, I wish to God that I'd let him go. If I had it to do all over again, I would not have had this kid.

All right, I'm gonna, I'm gonna give you a third story, and that'll be the last, that'll be the last story the guy I used to know, I was in my 20s when this happened, and we we knew each other, not well. We were not super close, but we did know each other. And he asked me one day, he was like, you don't have any kids, do you? And I was like, oh, no, maybe 2526 at that time. And I said no. And he said, I need to talk to somebody who doesn't have kids? I need to say something. And I was like, Okay. And I thought, what the hell's this man getting ready to tell me? He tells me the story about his first wife, and he says, I love that woman more than anything on this earth. She was everything to me. And he said, I told her when we were dating, I do not like kids. I do not ever want to have kids. Please do not ever ask me, because the answer is no. And he said that she told him that was fine, that she wasn't that crazy about kids either, and she could live without them. They get married, same kind of deal. Few years into the marriage, she becomes depressed. She's having a lot of crying Jags, and she's being withdrawn. And he asked her what's going on, and she won't tell him, and he starts to worry that she might have gotten a scary medical diagnosis, and she's keeping it a secret. So finally, one night, when she really has a crying breakdown, he's like, whatever it is, we'll face it together, but please quit telling me that everything's fine when it's obvious that it's not. And that's when she tells him, my biological clock is ticking and I need to have a baby. I see babies everywhere. All I want is to be pregnant and to have a baby. And I know that you don't want that. I know that from the very beginning you said no, and I'm at a point where I'm I'm emotionally devastated so badly that I'd have to just file for divorce and then go be with a man that wants to have kids. He didn't want to lose her, and so he said, All right, if you want to go off the pill and get pregnant, I will support that. I don't really want to have a litter of children, but if you want to have one, I'll acquiesce. So not long after she goes off birth control, she gets pregnant, and a few years later, here we go, like the kids about being toddler age, maybe kindergarten age. They get a divorce anyway, and he told me, he was like, I will never be able to retire because of that kid. He has been in and out of jail. He drinks, he drugs. I can't tell you how many trap houses I've had to go to and pull that kid out, but he'd be in there smoking crack. He'd be in there passed out from doing something drug related, alcohol related. I've hired lawyers for him. And he said, I just if I had it to do all over again, I wished I would have never done it. I know that sounds bad. I know that's the one thing in life that a parent is never, ever, ever supposed to say. And I couldn't say it to anybody that has kids, but he was like, I will never be able to retire because that kid is in and out of jail. And he said, I also know it's terrible to say this about your own son, but he's a scumbag. He's a criminal, a drug head and a scumbag. And I just, I wish to God that that night when she had a crying breakdown and said, I need to get pregnant or all, I'll have to leave, I should have let her go, because as much as I love her, I really do not appreciate what is going on in my life now. And I feel like having that kid who turned out to be a criminal and a drug head and a scumbag ruined my life. That's fucking heavy, man, that is so fucking heavy. So you think about people who have had children for the wrong reasons, and I honestly think there's a large number of people who have children for the wrong reasons. You cannot convince me that AI bots raising children won't become a thing. You'll have aI robot teachers. You'll have aI robot caregivers. It's coming. It's totally coming. And in fact, they're developing another sequel. So they made Megan 2.0 which I'll review in another episode down the line, but they're working on one, now called soulmate, which is not difficult to imagine that that's going to be about robots for for dating and so forth marriage that's coming. Anton Levay predicted all of this in the early 90s. By the way, he talked about people replacing other people with robots, having robots to do everything from household chores to sex, because they would get tired of other people. So. I fully believe this is predictive programming. We will absolutely see bots raising kids and taking over child rearing duties, and it may come first to people with affluence, the kind of people now who already shunt their kids off to nannies. If that offends you, sorry, I'm just I'm giving you my opinion people who bring in nannies to raise the kids, because the robot is going to do whatever you tell it to do. It's not going to take a sick day, it's not going to be insubordinate, it's not going to have issues with a criminal background or what if this person said they have a green card and they don't, and then ice is showing up on my doorstep asking questions? No, that's going to happen with a robot. I think it will come for for affluent families first, and then it will start to trickle down to your more middle class households. And people will be like, I don't know what I did before we had a Megan and all this thing is fucking great. So they can can spit out these kids and then not race them. And I just, I don't understand that. Like, why on earth you're bringing a human life. You're doing something that's sacred. You're bringing a human life into this world unbidden. You're you're bringing somebody into this place, really, without their consent, and then you're going to shove them off on a robot. And there's no telling what these robots are going to be saying to these kids when you're not around. They could be programmed to do anything in the surveillance level. My God, I just especially like in my Gen X mind, I'm thinking back to the way that we grew up. Sometimes the Gen Zers are like, all you want to talk about is playing outside until the street lights came on and drinking out of the water hose. And it's like, because we did those things. It's funny, because my mom will be like, I remember when she was like, with me in the 80s, when she was like, pee outside behind a bush and drink out of the garden hose, but don't come back till the street lights come on. But then with my dogs, she'll be like, you know, they have sensitive tummies, and so they should probably just be drinking Evian bottled water. They shouldn't be ever be having tap. Are you the same person that told me to piss behind a bush and drink out of a garden hose back in the 80s? Come on now, it was nice to not be surveilled all the time, to not even if you had parents that leaned in the direction of being helicopter parents, they just physically couldn't surveil you all the time. There were times that they didn't know where you were and what you were doing and precisely who you were with, and it was fucking great. The surveillance now that kids have, in my opinion, is too much, but you bring in AI caregivers, AI babysitters into the equation, and it's going to be 10 times worse. It's also interesting to me that just last week, I talked about Peter Thiel being obsessed with the Antichrist, and how Whitney Webb connects all of that to the surveillance state. And then now I'm talking about Megan and how it's predictive programming for AI raising kids. So in the title, I asked Megan and AI raising kids, is this the future? You bet it is absolutely stay a little bit crazy and I will see you in the next episode.

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