849. The AI Era: Discernment, Beauty Standards + The Collapse of Reality

Almost 30

Krista Williams & Lindsey Simcik

Alternative Health, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education

4.5 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2026

⏱️ 72 minutes

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AI isn’t just helping you write emails—it’s shaping beauty standards, influencing elections, replacing jobs, generating music, and possibly rewriting reality itself. In this unfiltered conversation, Lindsey + Krista explore the cultural, spiritual, and economic implications of artificial intelligence. From AI influencers to blackmailing bots, autonomous coding, artificial womb technology, and the manifesto to replace human labor, this episode dives into the race toward AGI and what it means for humanity. Together, K+L explore whether AI is inevitable—or simply a narrative we’ve accepted. This episode is all about discernment. It’s about staying human, protecting your creativity, strengthening your intuition, and deciding how you want to engage with technology in a world that feels increasingly synthetic. If you’ve felt fascinated, disturbed, or unsure about AI—this is for you. We also talk about: AI-generated porn + its impact on relationships The potential for emotional + relational attachment to AI technology How AI could shape the future of content creation, writing, and artistic voice Balancing AI for efficiency while protecting original thought + creativity How younger generations may grow up with AI as a constant companion or support system The economic tension between productivity gains + potential job displacement Why discernment + emotional intelligence may become more valuable skills in the AI era Resources: Instagram: @lindseysimcik Instagram: @itskrista Website: https://itskrista.com/ Order our book, Almost 30: A Definitive Guide To A Life You Love For The Next Decade and Beyond, here: https://bit.ly/Almost30Book. Sponsors: Ka’Chava | Go to https://www.kachava.com and use code ALMOST30 for 15% off your next order. Ritual | Don’t settle for less than evidence-based support. My listeners get 25% off your first month at https://www.Ritual.com/ALMOST30. Hero Bread | Hero Bread is offering 10% off your order. Go to https://hero.co and use code ALMOST30 at checkout. Revolve | Shop at https://www.REVOLVE.com/ALMOST30 and use code ALMOST30 for 15% off your first order. #REVOLVEpartner BetterHelp | This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at https://www.betterhelp.com/almost30 and get on your way to being your best self with 10% off your first month. Chime | It just takes a few minutes to sign up. Head to https://www.Chime.com/ALMOST30. Paleovalley | Head to https://www.paleovalley.com/almost30 for 15% off your order! Our Place | Visit https://www.fromourplace.com/ALMOST30 and use code ALMOST30 for 10% off sitewide. Fatty15 | Get an additional 15% off their 90-day subscription Starter Kit by going to https://www.fatty15.com/ALMOST30 and use code ALMOST30 at checkout. To advertise on this podcast please email: partnerships@almost30.com. Learn More: https://almost30.com/about https://almost30.com/morningmicrodose https://almost30.com/book Join our community: https://facebook.com/Almost30podcast/groups https://instagram.com/almost30podcast https://tiktok.com/@almost30podcast https://youtube.com/Almost30Podcast Podcast disclaimer can be found by visiting: almost30.com/disclaimer. Almost 30 is edited by Garett Symes and Isabella Vaccaro. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, you are tuned in to almost 30 podcast.
0:17.2	Hi, everybody.
0:17.7	Welcome to the show.
0:18.6	It's Lindsay Simpsick.
0:19.9	I'm my best friend, Crystal Williams,
0:22.0	from Ohio. Christopher Williams, Cumberna, Chile, from Ohio. Cincinnati's finest, Mason,
0:27.4	Ohio. Born and bred. Stand up Mason. Stand up, stand up Mason comments. Did Mason have anything
0:34.0	to do with the Freemasons? Yes. Got it. My whole family. 33.
0:41.5	No, actually, it probably did. Or actually, George Mason. There's like a George Mason was someone.
0:46.9	Yeah. There's a university name. Yeah. So maybe that said. I don't know if it could be the land of the Freemasons.
0:53.2	But I remember we are, our mascot was the Comets. Uh-huh. And I remember dated this guy. He said, I don't know if it could be the land of the Freemasons. But I remember we are,
1:28.3	mascot was the Comets. Uh-huh. And I remember dated this guy. He's like, what does a comet do? Like crashing a barn? Good question. I was like, that's a great point. I don't know why that's like a good powerful, fiery from another planet. Why that's a good mascot. I'll never forget one time I was with a friend and she's British and we were talking and she's like, what is a mascot? And her asking what a mascot is, because she didn't really understand what a mascot is, honestly the funniest thing I've ever explained in my life. I was like, in America, for the teams that we have, you also have a character. And the character dresses up. It's a man dressed up. And they do funny things. And they're they're you know and sometimes they fight other mascots and they do backflips it's like it's kind of crazy
1:32.2	it's insane and it is funny to think about just like how weird so many mascots are so weird some of them
1:40.8	are cool like what benny the bull in chicago okay shit. Like I was like, you're at games and like, Benny will just like sit down next to someone and just start eating their prop corn. And he's always like that's like the Philly Fanatic. The Philly Fanatic. But like who like created Philly Fanatic? He has like, he looks like a little alien dude. But like what? I need to see him. Yeah. I've actually, literally, by no exaggeration, sat in my bed and watched Benny the Bull highlights on YouTube. I don't know if it was when I was in Chicago or not, but I was just like, it's just like joyful. Like I love mischievousness. Yeah like being mischievous. It's like very like playful and like light. Totally. So welcome to the show. If you're new here, we're so excited to have you almost 30. You don't need to be 30 to listen. You can be whoever you are, whenever you are. We really started it at a time in our lives when we felt really lost. We were almost 30. We felt like there was a
2:34.5	timeline we should have been on of being married, having kids, being mentally well, being wealthy,
2:40.3	all of these things. And in the feeling of feeling lost, we found each other. And we started to have
2:45.3	really deep, vulnerable conversations about what it meant to consciously evolve and grow. And it turned into a community and a brand and a podcast
2:53.4	that's been around for 10 years now.
2:55.4	And we like to have solo conversations, Lindsay and I,
2:57.7	because we want to talk about things that are relevant in our lives,
3:00.8	relevant in your lives,
3:01.8	and really explore topics that are impacting us today,
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