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Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

Armstrong and Getty.

And now here's Armstrong and Getty.

So I got a couple of stories, one of them I told before,

and I got to be vague about them because they're real life stories people have told me,

and I don't want them to get in trouble for, you know,

passing along more or less confidential information.

But I told the story a while back about somebody who was talking to a group of

working-class salt-of-the-earth gentlemen.

The last kind of dudes that you would ever think that this would be a thing for.

I'm not talking about like some Berkeley androgynous poetry majors.

I'm talking about like working class, work with their hands, guys, blue collar guys,

talking about how much they enjoyed the companionship of the female chatbots when they came home from, you know, a long day in the field at night.

And how they, you know, they listen to them and understand them and they look forward to it all day long and that sort of thing.

And I thought, wow.

I mean, if that crowd can fall under the sway of this in its current form, mankind is doomed.

No, I've never tried it, but I almost don't want to because I have some concern,

but with like a lot of other things that I've dismissed and joked about, and find it more appealing than I'd like it to be.

You know?

I would hope that your Ugi factor would overcome that temptation, but your illustration

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