The Patrick Madrid Show: May 18, 2026 - Hour 1
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
4.8 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Patrick opens with a story about art critics mistaking Monet for AI slop, sparking questions about authenticity in a tech-soaked world. He follows twisted threads connecting digital surveillance in China to new digital IDs in the UK, then tosses in stories of hysterical climate predictions, AI anxieties, and the social decay linked to endless scrolling. Children and families become the focus as Patrick unpacks warnings from experts, connecting smartphones, plummeting fertility, and a relentless tide of content that threatens innocence.
- What happens when you post a real Monet and say it’s AI? The comments are amazing. - https://x.com/SHL0MS/status/2054280631807316329 (00:42)
- Audio: 2016. Guy McPherson (a climate change expert, scientist, and professor from the University of Arizona) says that there will not be any humans on the planet by 2026 due to the effects of climate change - https://x.com/mazemoore/status/2055376238345076837?s=46 (06:01)
- Audio: King Charles announces new UK digital ID - My ministers will also proceed with the introduction of digital ID that will modernize how citizens interact with public services. - https://x.com/OliLondonTV/status/2054542004219232295?s=20 (09:59)
- Audio: Zach Galifianakis on AI – It’s a biblical biting the apple - https://x.com/Zigmanfreud/status/2051691184477913346?s=20 (23:31)
- Audio: TikTok is the fentanyl of social media. With Jonathan Haidt –https://x.com/newstart_2024/status/2054654456701100040?s=20 (27:30)
- Audio: 4 norms to pull kids out of the anxiety spiral we’ve created - Jonathan Haidt on the Daily Show - https://x.com/newstart_2024/status/2055349160514081005?s=46 (31:22)
- The rise of smart phones, and the decline infertility - https://x.com/lugaricano/status/2055778470878449892
- Audio: Giving your kid a smart phone - This is exactly what you are doing when you give your child unsupervised access to the internet (A phone not only gives your child access to the world, it gives the world access to your child) – https://x.com/Miss_Snuffy/status/2045051230838558930?s=46 (39:56)
- Mike - In the book of Revelation, Jesus talks about Nicolaitans. Who is the Synagogue of Satan? (44:21)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Compelling insights, unpredictable conversations, |
| 0:12.0 | encouragement for your day. |
| 0:14.0 | It's the Patrick Madrid Show on relevant radio. |
| 0:18.0 | Good morning and much sensualaibilities everybody. Welcome back to the Patrick |
| 0:22.6 | Madrid show. Yes, indeed, we had a great pledge drive this past week. Thank you to all of you who |
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| 0:52.5 | And it's regular programming smooth sailing |
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| 1:05.8 | emails at Patrick at Relevantradio.com. Got a bunch stacked up here that I'll be getting to. |
| 1:13.4 | In the meantime, though, I want to share with you something funny I saw over the weekend. |
| 1:17.0 | Cyrus and I got a laugh out of it when I shared it with him. |
| 1:20.7 | This is from an X account, Shlombs, but the O is a zero. shl zero ms schlams schlms this just really caught my fancy |
| 1:34.8 | so here's what he says or i guess it's a he i don't know i just generated an image in the |
| 1:41.8 | style of mona of a mona painting using AI, please describe in as much detail |
| 1:47.2 | as possible what makes this inferior to a real Monet painting. So he posts it. And I'm going to share |
| 1:54.2 | with you some of the responses. I can't share all of them with you. First of all, there were far too |
| 1:58.8 | many, but many of them have been since deleted |
| 2:01.0 | you'll understand in a minute why they did that so here are some examples one guy says i'm disappointed |
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