DOD217: Meet My AI Girlfriend

Dear Old Dads

Thomas Smith

Kids & Family, Society & Culture

4.8 • 550 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

After a discussion about simulation theory for some reason, Tom talks about having listened to a podcast about people falling in love with AI bots. What's the deal there? Is that a real relationship? Is the AI coming for our kids?

Then for patrons only, instead of a parenting story, the dads discuss whether or not having an AI girlfriend would be cheating.

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0:00.0	I'm the cool dad. That's, that's my thing.
0:09.7	I know now what I can offer you that no one else can. Complete and undependent.
0:16.7	I'm a man. I'm sensitive. I need to feel loved. I need to be desired.
0:23.1	Yelling is the only part of being a father that I enjoy.
0:28.6	Welcome to Dear Old Dads, the podcast that's pretty sure this is a simulation and is desperate to log off.
0:34.7	I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick.
0:38.8	Hello, gentlemen.
0:39.6	Hello, Tom.
0:41.1	Who the fuck would simulate all this?
0:44.0	Programming Eli bot 3,000.
0:47.4	Boy, did you notice how much funnier Eli bot is than Eli just now?
0:50.6	It's way better.
0:52.3	It's way better.
0:52.7	The clamps.
0:53.1	The clamps.
0:53.9	The clamps. The show is finally going to work, guys. Thank God. By definition, it would have to be. Now I want to talk about simulation theory, though, and how stupid it is. Yeah. I mean, if it's a simulation, it's a simulation somebody started and then walked away from, and nobody has checked on in a long time.
1:12.0	Can I tell you guys my relationship with simulation theory? Oh, God. I'm always uncomfortable with your relationship about anything. I did several SIOs about it, but yes. That's me saying I want to hear your theory. I'm into this. Oh, no, I haven't listened to these SIOs, so I hope I don't. It's like, I did it about how stupid
1:27.7	this argument would be, and I'm like,
1:29.3	ah, damn. So I'm on the skeptic Reddit a lot, because I like to, you know, help. And I would say once a month, someone comes on, and they're like, hey, guys, someone just told me about simulation theory, and I'm feeling really sad and depressed and, like, worried that it's real.
1:45.4	What are the arguments against it?
1:47.1	And look, the impulse to go, you could just fucking Wikipedia that shit is pretty strong because, like, the second paragraph down on Wikipedia is like, here's a very simple plain language debunking of this theory.
1:58.6	But what it boils down to is there's no indication that we can simulate consciousness.
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