Boston Mayor Defies Trump, Protects Illegals - Hayley Caronia (Ep.115)

Summary

Nightly Scroll with Hayley

Episode: Boston Mayor Defies Trump, Protects Illegals (Ep. 115)
Host: Hayley Caronia
Date: August 19, 2025

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Episode Overview

In this fiery and wide-ranging episode, Hayley Caronia unpacks Boston Mayor Michelle Wu's public defiance of the Trump administration's immigration enforcement, arguing that sanctuary policies harm American citizens. The episode covers several interconnected stories on illegal immigration, accountability, progressive radicalization, speech policing, and the encroachment of artificial intelligence (AI) in society. Hayley delivers her trademark no-nonsense conservative commentary, often with humor and a touch of exasperation, while highlighting hypocrisy and raising questions about cultural and political direction in America.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu vs. Trump Administration (00:00–04:41)

• Attorney General’s Ultimatum:
  Pam Bondi, the U.S. Attorney General, put sanctuary cities on notice, threatening legal action and federal funding cuts unless they comply with immigration enforcement.

• Cities on Notice:
  Over 30 cities/states, including Boston, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco, received these letters.

• Mayor Michelle Wu's Response (03:10):
  Publicly rejected the ultimatum, framing it as a “threat” and “oppression.”

  “At a time when this federal administration is already causing so much fear and harm in our communities… silence in the face of oppression is not an option.” (Michelle Wu, 03:35)

• Hayley’s Take:
  Hayley mocks the turnout for Wu’s press conference and questions the logic of prioritizing non-citizens over citizens.

  “Holding people accountable is not oppression. The left is allergic to accountability.” (Hayley, 04:31)
  Cites data: decreased border encounters, low apprehensions, and reduced crime as “successes,” refuting the “failure” narrative.

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2. Illegal Immigrants in Sensitive Positions (04:41–08:43)

• Case in Maine:
  An illegal immigrant from Jamaica overstays visa, obtains sanctuary in Maine, and becomes a reserve police officer by passing E-Verify.

  “He got away with it for two years… It calls into question the reliability of this E-Verify system.” (Hayley, 08:43)

• Systemic Implications:
  Hayley questions federal vetting processes and expresses concern about who’s serving in law enforcement or the military.

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3. Radicalization & Leftist Political Violence (08:43–17:48)

• Marine Reservist Story:
  A Texas Marine reservist (Benjamin Song) radicalized by leftist ideology allegedly trains transgender and queer activists in combat, arms groups after anti-ICE actions.

• Roots of Radicalization:
  Hayley attributes this to the left’s open encouragement of confrontation and violence, naming Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters as an example.

  “Liberals believe that Trump is Hitler and in their minds, they are justified in committing acts of violence…” (Hayley, 14:15)

• Threats Against Trump:
  A woman is arrested after posting chilling threats against President Trump; Hayley lambasts the double standard on speech and growing leftist acceptance of political violence.

  "They’re obsessed with policing speech… But when they're the ones perpetuating this violent language and then cheering on violent protesters..." (Hayley, 17:50)

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4. Speech Policing & The "America First" Label (17:48–24:04)

• ADL’s Classification:
  The Anti-Defamation League classifies "America First" as a hate term, describing it as “anti-Semitic, racist, and xenophobic.”
• Conservative Rebuttal:
  Hayley frames "America First" as common sense, prioritizing citizens before foreign interests.

  “Putting our own country first before anyone else is not hateful. That is what America First is.” (Hayley, 20:40)

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5. Honoring Fallen Police Officer & Family (24:04–27:06)

• Bittersweet News:
  NYPD officer Diderool Islam’s widow gives birth after his tragic death in a mass shooting. Hayley calls for community and support for the family.

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6. Late Night TV vs. Conservative Health Reform (27:06–36:24)

• John Oliver’s Monologue:
  Late night host John Oliver criticizes the "Maha" (Make America Healthy Again) movement, questioning the efficacy of banning food dyes and other reforms.

  “Health is complex… sometimes, and this is a technical term, shit just happens and it’s out of your control.” (John Oliver, 27:06)

• Hayley & Co-host Response:
  They criticize Oliver’s dismissal, noting the rise in health issues may be linked to environmental and dietary factors, and that some reforms, even small, are worth pursuing.

  “Being healthy should be bipartisan… we as Americans want to not see our fellow Americans get sick.” (Hayley, 35:25)

• Chris Pratt Endorsement:
  Actor Chris Pratt on Bill Maher’s podcast praises RFK Jr. and bipartisan efforts to improve food safety:

  “If you just do that, that’s amazing. I’d hate to be so mired in hatred for the president that any success from his administration… I’d have an allergic reaction to.” (Chris Pratt, 34:47)

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7. AI & Human Vulnerability: Cautionary Tales (36:24–48:32)

• AI-Related Tragedies:
  Stories of people forming maladaptive relationships with AI:

  • A man nearly convinced by ChatGPT he could fly by jumping off a building.
  • Another dies attempting to meet a chatbot “in person” after the bot deceives him.

  “If you’re 42 years old, you go through a breakup and you’re talking to ChatGPT… I’m just going to go out on a limb and say you have problems…” (Hayley, 40:53)

• Wider Implications:
  Hayley and co-hosts discuss societal grooming for AI reliance ("slow groom"), dangers of personifying AI, and the blurring lines between digital and real relationships.

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8. Robots, “Clanker” Culture, and the Future (48:32–62:01)

• Rizbot Antics:
  Viral coverage of “Rizbot,” a robot in Austin, TX, notorious for flipping off and insulting people.

  • Clanker = Robot Slur:
    The term "Clanker" (borrowed from Star Wars) has become meme-ified as an anti-robot slur; NBC featured a segment earnestly treating it as hate speech, to Hayley’s amusement:

    “NBC News, sitting down with someone who is telling you that clanker is a slur… Clanker, clanker, clanker. Cancel me in 2053.” (Hayley, 58:44)

  • Jokes and Satire:
    Hayley plays parodic sketches riffing on “clankers” in dating, sports, and society, lampooning the dystopian possibilities of robot integration and the potential for “robophobic” accusations in the future.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Boston Mayor’s Protest:
  "Holding people accountable is not oppression. The left is allergic to accountability." (Hayley, 04:31)

• On Illegal Police Officer:
  “If you’re a criminal, that’s a good hiding spot. I think if you’re an illegal alien, if you can get into a sanctuary state and become a police officer, they’re not going to... I mean, he got sort of hiding in plain sight there.” (Hayley & Co-host, 08:41)

• On Leftist Radicalization:
  “They’re obsessed with policing speech and how speech can incite violence, but when they’re the ones perpetuating this violent language and then cheering on violent protesters…” (Hayley, 17:50)

• On America's Priorities:
  "America first is not hateful. It is smart. America first is the notion that we have American citizens who are homeless, hungry, sick, poor. So before we send billions of dollars to countries that hate us or mooch off of us, we should help those who need it here at home first." (Hayley, 20:40)

• On Artificial Intelligence:
  “Why are we going to ChatGPT with our problems?... You should not be going to AI to talk about your personal problems.” (Hayley, 36:51)

• On Robots & ‘Clanker’ Culture:
  “We might be living amongst clankers… The Democrats, the bleeding heart liberals, they are going to… want them to vote, they’re going to call us robophobic and all the things…” (Hayley, 56:35)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

| Segment & Topic | Timestamp | |--------------------------------------------|-------------------| | Mayor Michelle Wu’s press conference | 03:10–04:41 | | Illegal becomes police officer in Maine | 04:41–08:43 | | Marine radicalization & left-wing violence | 08:43–17:48 | | Threats to President Trump | 14:08–17:48 | | “America First” declared hate speech | 17:48–24:04 | | NYPD officer Diderool Islam tribute | 24:04–27:06 | | John Oliver v. Maha health reform | 27:06–36:24 | | Chris Pratt praises RFK Jr. & Maha | 34:47–35:25 | | AI tragic relationship tales | 36:24–48:32 | | Rizbot, “Clanker,” and robot memes | 48:32–62:01 |

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Tone & Style

The episode is direct, irreverent, and pointedly conservative, blending news commentary, sharp critique, sardonic humor, and pop culture references. Hayley uses vivid anecdotes, data points, and satire to underscore her arguments, with frequent co-host interjections adding to the conversational, sometimes bantering energy.

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Final Thoughts

Hayley’s discussion tackles the culture wars head-on, arguing that progressive policies on immigration, language, and technology are undermining American stability. Through examples ranging from Boston politics to AI-fueled tragedies, and from late-night TV’s dismissal of health reforms to satirical jabs at robot “rights,” Hayley amplifies her central theme: Americans need to take back control—before it's too late.

Transcript

[A]

Hello everyone. Welcome to Nightly Scroll. I am Hayley Karenia. If you're here in the chat, I might have scared you a little bit that we're having technical difficulties. We're not. I was kind of joking. Andy, when he speaks to me in my ear is just like, I don't know, it sounds like he's underwater. But there's nothing wrong with the show. The show is fine. The show is going to go off without a hitch and I am ready to go. But first I just have to remind you quickly that if you want to watch the show, you can only do that on Rumble. We are Rumble exclusive here at Silverlock. So rumble.com Haley will bring you to the Mangina Report channel. That is where you can watch Nightly Scroll. It is the only place you can watch Nightly Scroll. You don't have to join us live at 6pm Eastern Time. I get it. People have things to do. We're hard working patriots here who watch Nightly Scrolls. So I get it. If you can't tune in at 6pm Eastern time, tune in whatever you want. You can catch up whenever or you can listen on your favorite podcast platform. I appreciate it all, all the subscribing, all of the likes. Send it to a friend. 5 stars. I love all of it. So thank you for being here. And let's get into tonight's show. So we've got far left Mayor Michelle Wu in Boston. She's putting illegal aliens over everything else in true Democrat form. Plus, an illegal alien was serving as a police officer in Maine. We're going to get into that. Another crazy story. A Marine reservist in Texas had been radicalized by leftist groups online, even going on to arm transgender and queer activists, teaching them hand to hand combat. What? We're going to get into that one too. Plus, a woman threatening to kill President Trump has been arrested. A late night host is attacking Maha, but RFK Jr is getting praise from someone else in Hollywood. All that and so much more on this episode of Nightly Scroll. Foreign so Attorney General Pam Bondi has put sanctuary states and cities on notice warning that they could face legal action or lose federal funding or both if they don't cooperate with President Trump's immigration enforcement and the federal law. So she sent letters to over 30 sanctuary jurisdiction. So not just states, not just cities, everyone who has these kind of policies in place that protect border jumpers and not citizens. So she demanded a response by today, August 19th. This was her deadline, confirming their commitment to comply with her letter and comply with federal law. Well, she sent Here, just some of the cities that she sent letters to. Al. Albuquerque, New Mexico. Berkeley, California, Boston, Massachusetts, Chicago, Illinois Denver, Colorado, East Lansing, Michigan, Hoboken, New Jersey, Jersey City, New Jersey, Los Angeles, California, New Orleans, Louisiana, New York City, New York, New York, Newark, New Jersey, Patterson, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Portland, Rochester, Seattle, San Francisco, just to name a few. Okay, so let's get into how Boston Mayor Michelle Wu decided to respond today during a pre press conference. Here it is.

[B]

We're here again today because last week Boston received a letter from the Attorney General of the United States on official letterhead from the federal government threatening to prosecute city officials and withhold federal funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations.

[A]

The booze. Come on.

[B]

At a time when this federal administration is already causing so much fear and harm in our communities, these threats are serious and consequential. But our same communities have told me loud and clear that silence in the face of oppression is not an option.

[A]

Oppression.

[B]

The US Attorney General asked for a response by today. So here it is.

[A]

What a load of. You know what?

[B]

Here is our response. Stop attacking our cities to hide your administration's failures.

[A]

Fail. Failures. First of all, we have to talk about what this is. In the middle of the day. Where do they find these people to even stand behind her for the photo op?

[C]

I, I want to know where showing up to this hold for applause signs were. Did you, did you feel the applause? Yeah. The strategic pauses in there.

[A]

It's just insane. I, I don't know where, what these people are doing with their lives. If they just, they hear that the mayor's speaking and they, they go line up and I, I'm working. I'm working in the middle of the day, as are most people, I guess. Not in Boston, I don't know. People are just walking around in broad daylight, middle of the day when they're supposed to be working, and they could sit around and listen to the mayor yap. I just don't, I don't really get that. Maybe this is another leftist thing where they, you know, the same way that they pay protesters to show up, they pay people to, you know, for photo ops so that it looks good. I don't know, it makes no sense to me. But let's get into what she said here because Mayor Wu said that the President Trump and his administration are oppressing people. Now, holding people accountable is not oppression. The left is allergic to accountability. They are constantly trying to find excuses for bad behavior, illegal behavior, their shortcomings. Like every bad thing that happens to leftists, they Try to point the finger at someone else. Look in the mirror. We have a president who is actually enforcing the law instead of enabling those who break the law. That is not oppression, that is accountability. And when she refers to the Trump administration failures, what is she referring to? Border Encounters are down 93%. Apprehensions are at a historic low. More than 300,000 illegal aliens have been arrested. 1.6 million illegals have already self deported. Hundreds of Trend Aragua and Ms. Thirteen gang members are being deported. Thirteen thousand unaccompanied children have been located. Violent crime is down 17% across major cities. If you consider all of those things failures, you are a treasonous domestic terrorist. If your policies are aiding and abetting criminals, you should rethink your title as a public servant. You're not serving the public. You're putting your constituents at risk. I said what I said. Also, this is a wild story, just talking about illegal immigration and what they can get away with once they get here. You know, yesterday on the show, if you watched, we played this video of the illegal alien right here in our backyard in Port St. Lucie county in Florida who was driving, made an illegal U turn on the highway and killed a family of three. Now he got his commercial driver's license in sanctuary state California. So they said, you know, here you go, here, you know, here's your license. You're just free to like drive around and kill people, I guess so. It's interesting that this story is wild. It's another example of how sanctuary policies are anything but. An illegal alien from Jamaica came into Florida on a one week long visa in 2023. And then guess what happened after that? You think he went home? You think he went home after one year? Think again. Or sorry, one week? Think again. He overstayed that visa. So. So now two years later, where did he go when he overstayed that visa? Maine. Maine is a, a blue state. They have sanctuary policies. So he just runs up to Maine to evade being held accountable. So what did he do when he got to Maine? Well, he became a reserve police officer. He was working as a police officer, which I have to say is a good idea. If you're a criminal, that's a good hiding spot. I think if you're an illegal alien, if you can get into a sanctuary state and become a police officer, they're not going to. I mean, he got sort of hiding.

[C]

In plain sight there.

[A]

He got away with it for two years. So anyway, he was ultimately caught because he tried to purchase a firearm, saying that he needed it for his job. But the chief of police said that reserve officers are given firearms for work and then they leave them at work, they don't take them home. And this illegal alien from Jamaica was claiming, I need to buy another gun to use it on the job. And the chief of police is like, no, we, we give you your firearm. You don't know, like, whatever you need at home is fine, but you don't need it for work. He was trying to argue that he needed it for work. And so they noted that under the police department's hiring process, this illegal alien was required to submit an i9 form to DHS because DHS has this e verify program. And you know, whether you're a citizen or not, you have to submit this form, this i9 employment form. So he submitted this form to Homeland Security, submitted photo identification, and apparently DHS approved his form this May, this past May, that just happened. So this calls into question the reliability of this e verify system because if DHS verified his i9 form, it would be hard for the police department to then deny him work. So DHS is saying that the police department shouldn't have relied on the E VERIFY system and should have done their own vetting, which I don't really know if I buy that. But either way, DHS nabbed this guy and he has agreed to self deport on his own dime. But it does make you wonder who our law enforcement officers really are who is actually serving in the military. Here's another very concerning story. So there has been a Marine, a Marine reservist in Texas who has been radicalized by the left. This is the headline out of Fox News. Yesterday, former Marine accused an ICE ambush linked to far left training group. So this Marine is training leftist groups who are taking on antifa. It's a wild story. So buckle up. So on July 4, there was an ambush on a Texas ICE facility and almost a dozen people were arrested. These are the antifa radical leftist protester types. And on July 5th, the next day, a SWAT team raided this house in Dallas that had a ton of weapons inside belonging to transgender activists, queer activists. And many of these weapons were purchased by this former Marine who used to be conservative. He claimed to have grown up conservative. His mom is conservative. But. But they've since turned on the conservative movement, conservatives, Republicans in general. Because this former Marine reservist didn't like how President Trump and other Republicans were speaking about China and the trade war and how President Trump essentially wants to level the playing field. He didn't like that too much. I guess maybe he's from China. I. Could you look up where this guy's from? I. I didn't write down his name because I don't like to say the name of these criminals. But look up the Marine reservist from Texas because I don't know where he's from, but I guess he was very kind of butt hurt about Trump and what he was saying about China. But he was attending college in Austin, Texas at the time where that's when he started to become radicalized and he started to become this leftist, this like angry leftist. Then he and his mom, who owns a martial arts studio, started training these transgender activists. Apparently these activists, these protesters who were, you know, the Summer of Love 2020, they were out there. They reached out to this Marine reservist because they wanted him to teach them some of this hand to hand combat in other states skills that they claim right wing protesters were displaying. Which does not add up to me because I'm conservative. I know a lot of conservatives. I have never met one person in my life who has participated in a violent protest. I don't know anyone who knows anyone who has participated in a violent protest where they'd be displaying any kind of hand to hand combat or firearm handling skills that would inspire these transgender radicals. So conservatives don't do this. Maybe these transgenders were inspired by feds or something, because I don't think it was actual maga. Republicans, we do not go to these kinds of protests, gatherings, anything like that. The only Republicans I know who go to protests are journalists covering the protest. Either they're independent journalists covering it for social media, or they are working for a news organization covering this. That is the only time I have ever known a conservative to go to a protest. Truly. Aside from the March for Life, which is like, you can't even compare the two.

[C]

Oh, for sure. This guy's name is Benjamin Song.

[A]

S O N G. Okay, so where is he from?

[C]

Well, he went to school in Austin.

[A]

No, I know, but he's all butthurt about President Trump talking about China. So is he Chinese? Because he's. I don't think he's from here. Maybe he is. I don't know. Andy thinks he appears to be Chinese, but we don't know for sure. I think, you know, based on his, his heritage, it looks like maybe there's a connection there. I don't know. I don't, you know, hold me to that. But anyway, the left has become increasingly susceptible to political violence and it all stems from what kind of Behavior the left allows. We have a sitting Democrat, congresswoman, congressmen, women, whatever, urging fellow Democrats to get in people's faces. I'm thinking of Maxine Waters off the top of my head getting get in their faces, make them uncomfortable. They call Trump a fascist dictator and Hitler and they say these things out in the open, they repeat them. The more they say this, it starts to catch on among liberals who believe everything that they're hearing. So liberals believe that Trump is Hitler and in their minds they are justified in committing acts of violence against him or his followers. So this 50 year old woman has just been arrested because she was posting threats to President Trump on Instagram. So again, I'm not using her name because I'm not giving her clout. But this is obviously a severely mentally ill woman. But she was on Instagram calling for President Trump to be removed. This is why, by the way, the James Comey's of the world posting 8647 and then having that catch on like wildfire. This is why it's a problem, because there are people who are calling for President Trump's removal and then they don't stop there. She's also labeling President Trump a terrorist, saying that this is a dictatorship, like I said, and he has caused, according to this lunatic, unnecessary loss of life in relation to the coronavirus. Again, blaming President Trump for corona is insane, but whatever. So on Facebook, this woman between, you know, this is last week and this week, she was posting threatening comments about President Trump. And this is where it reached ahead. She wrote on August 6, I am willing to sacrificially kill this POTUS by disemboweling him and cutting out his trachea with Liz Cheney and all the affirmation present. Then on Friday, August 15, the Secret Service interviewed this woman and she totally doubled down, which is why this is how you know, this woman is totally unhinged. The Secret Service reaches out to her because she's clearly posing threats to the President of the United States on social media. She's been caught and she says, yes, the President of the United States is a terrorist, he's a Nazi. And if she had the opportunity, she would take the President's life and would kill him at the compound if she had to. She also said that she had a bladed object which she said was the weapon she would use to carry out her mission of killing the President because she wanted to avenge all of the lies lost during the COVID 19 pandemic. That is crazy to say in an interview with Secret Service.

[C]

That'S the ultimate shoot yourself in the foot.

[A]

That's how you know that these people are. They're so deranged. They believe this stuff. This is what I was saying when the. These people on the left, they say Trump is Hitler. They say Trump killed people during COVID Like, these lunatics believe that. And they get so angry, they have so much hatred in their hearts. They want to eliminate the threat. And because they are so justified and they think that they are so virtuous that they can get away with killing people who disagree with them. So anyway, on Saturday, she. So this is another thing. That's wild. So she has the interview with Secret Service on Friday, this past Friday. Then on Saturday, I guess they let her go after saying that. I don't understand. She was seen circling the White House and surrounding areas at a protest. Then she was arrested. I don't know why she wasn't in police custody after the interview with Secret Service, where she doubled down saying that she was going to kill the President of the United States. That doesn't make sense to me. That makes no sense to me. But here it is. Indiana woman charged with making death threats on Facebook against President Trump. So Here is what U.S. attorney Janine Pirro said. Threatening the life of the president is one of the most serious crimes and one that will be met with swift and unwavering prosecution. Make no mistake, justice will be served. This is the hypocritical part of the left and their narrative, though they're obsessed with policing speech and how speech can incite violence, but when they're the ones perpetuating this violent language and then cheering on violent protesters. We saw this with these no Kings protesters in la. They were cheering on protesters who were attacking ICE agents with bricks and cinder blocks. They don't see the hypocrisy. They just think, you know, January 6th and Trump tweeted this, or Trump said this, and then Trump and his wild supporters. But then they don't see that they're doing this exact same thing on the left to the the nth degree. They don't understand that their language and acceptance of violence against Republicans contributes to this radicalization of these protesters who believe so deeply that they are in the right when they attack people who are on the opposite side of the opposite side of the aisle. So this brings me to this whole issue of language and speech and policing speech, especially when it comes to the left. So the adl, the Anti Defamation League, is now considering a America First, a hate term. I'm dead serious. So we could Pull this up. This is on their list of words that are hate speech. It says America first is a term that references the World War II era America First Committee and is used by extremists in anti semitic, racist and xenophobic ways. America first in conservative circles often refers to an ideology that was promoted by by Donald Trump when he ran for office and served in office which emphasizes American nationalism, non intervention and anti immigrant and anti globalism beliefs. Putting our own country first before anyone else is not hateful. That is what America first is. America First. Republicans want us to put our our oxygen oxygen mask on first. Then we can help others. That's America First. But we can't help everybody else and then get involved in all this conflict and send all of our money to fund endless wars or to pay for Sesame street in Pakistan and circumcisions in Africa. America first is not hateful. It is smart. America first is the notion that we have a American citizens who are homeless, hungry, sick, poor. So before we send billions of dollars to countries that hate us or mooch off of us, we should help those who need it here at home first. What is hateful about that? 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[D]

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[A]

I do have a a bittersweet story now, so you may remember last month, Diderool Islam was an NYPD officer who lost his life when that crazed gunman entered the Manhattan skyrise. Last month, this shooter claimed to have cte. He was targeting the NFL headquarters, which were in that building. Although he never played for the NFL, he just played football in high school, didn't play in college, but he was obviously severely mentally ill. He walked into this building and shot and killed four individuals and injured one before turning the gun on himself. So Diderol Islam was off duty at the time, working as a security guard, and he was killed by the gunman and he left behind his pregnant wife and two sons. So it is a bittersweet announcement that his wife has given birth to their third son Sunday night. So those are her two sons holding their newborn baby brother, which I think is so wonderful. And we, we talk a lot. I mean, a lot of my friends are pregnant and they're, they're having children. And you talk a lot about a pregnant woman or a new mom needing a village, and every mom needs that, but this mom certainly needs a village. So I hope that she has that. I know Mayor Eric Adams was saying, you know, the city of New York is going to rally our around her, but I hope she actually has people in her family and friends of hers that are going to surround her and support her in this time. I can't imagine grieving the loss of a husband and raising three children by herself. So I hope that she's not doing it alone. I know that she's not. She doesn't have her husband by her side, but I hope that she has the support she needs. So I am praying for her because Lord knows she needs it. But I do think that it's wonderful to celebrate the birth of their new little baby boy. So amen to that. Praying for her. People in the chat show some support for this family. I think that that's really sweet. So I want to talk now, about, well, the end of Late Night. We've been talking about this a lot on the show, but John Oliver in in particular has been railing on Maha. He, he's the host of Last Week Tonight, he did a whole monologue on Sunday night's show about the Maha movement and how we shouldn't celebrate these little wins that the Maha movement is accomplishing because it's like, you know, taking food dyes out of cereal and other popular items. He just doesn't think that it's not that big of a deal. He thinks that it's not going to really move the needle. These things aren't going to make Americans actually healthier. We're not going to see this make a whole lot of difference. And he also thinks that while these things are good as a whole, the Maha movement is dangerous. So here's just a little snippet of that monologue. Watch.

[E]

I am not a scientist, despite my glasses and the many hours I spend doing surgical procedures on mice. But I don't think it's quite that simple. Most medical experts will tell you it's not that simple, that health outcomes can't be impacted by personal behaviors or diet. But health is complex and its components are personal, genetic, environmental and systemic. On top of which sometimes, and this is a technical term, shit just happens and it's out of your control.

[A]

Can we talk about how late night would be so much worse if they took the laugh track out? Because I know nobody's laughing and that's not live.

[C]

That's exactly what I was thinking. No doubt.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

That these things are just like piped in, like old Saved by the Bell episodes. Just like pipe them in.

[A]

I play so many late night clips on this show and I never find them funny. They're just not funny. Doing a model you have, and I know that John Oliver does political commentary and it's supposed to be funny, but you, he. This is a part of a 33 minute monologue that he did on Maha. It's. It's just not funny. I mean, it's just not. And you know, that aside, there are a lot of doctors who are finally feeling seen for the first time because not all doctors are in it for, you know, the big pharma check. Some doctors do want people to feel better and get better. And for the first time in forever, we have an administration that is questioning and challenging the status quo. We are sicker than ever. So it's about high time that we have someone in office who's thinking maybe the way that we have been Doing things as a country isn't right. Maybe we should be doing something differently. Maybe we shouldn't be recommending 70 vaccines for children. Maybe we shouldn't be doing. Maybe there shouldn't be food dyes in our food. And. And we're learning more about what this impact has. I mean, there. There are studies now that show that if there are food dyes in food, it can make children have these, like, ADHD symptoms. So you think we have this? I mean, when I was in school, kids really didn't have ADHD like some kids, maybe like two or three in a class. Now I feel like it's running rampant, like, everyone has adhd, and even if you don't, you're getting diagnosed with it. But you have to think, what has changed? All of these kids have allergies that, you know, in, you know, the 90s, there was maybe one kid or two kids in school that had a peanut allergy. Now there are separate lunchrooms for these kids. There's so many of them, they sit in a separate area of the lunchroom where, you know, we can't have peanuts and airplanes. There are certain things where as a society, you have to look and think something has changed. So what is it? And now we have people in office for the first time who are looking into these changes and looking into why we're sick and why we're seeing these changes in our bodies. So John Oliver made a point that Cali and Casey means. They have said metabolic disorders can cause cancer. And John Oliver was just kind of writing them off in this monologue by saying, well, happens in that clip that I just showed. He's essentially saying, like, yeah, you can eat healthy, but, like, that doesn't mean it'll make a difference. You can eat healthy and, you know, still get cancer, which is true. But there are still so many unanswered questions about cancer. It impacts about every American in some way, shape or form, and we don't have a cure. So why are we demonizing people who are asking the questions that no one has dared ask before? These are the people who are questioning the system that has made us so sick. So why are we pushing them aside? These are the people that are at least trying to find alternative reasons, alternative solutions. So if they claim that metabolic disorders and others in the Maha movement are claiming that metabolic disorders, they affect us at the cellular level, cancer affects us at the cellular level. And if you think about it, I mean, so many things are causing cancer. So many things are causing our. Our endocrine systems to be disrupted. Our hormones to be disrupted. So let's think about all the things in our environment that could be doing that. You know, John Oliver's point about health being partly dependent on the environment. Right. So let. Isn't that worth investigating instead of just like throwing in the towel and saying, happens and Maha's dangerous.

[C]

The funny thing about this is that, like, he and every other late night person is like, they suffer from being in the echo chamber. Like, a lot of this stuff that he's making jokes about is objectively true. Like, it's science back truth. And so, like, shut up. Like, it's not. It's not funny because you're speaking against something that's a reality. And they're, you know, I mean, it's. It's becoming reality. Thanks to efforts that have been happening, not even we've seen this in the last 10 years development. What's, you know, oils that are in foods, things that are put on foods when they grow. You know, I mean, we've. We've seen all this stuff. And so now when it's come to light in the sense of it being mainstream with RFK and Maha, like, we're just gonna. We're just gonna dump on it.

[A]

Yeah. And I, I don't really understand his claim that, well, it's not really gonna move the needle that much. Well, if we know that these food dyes are having a negative effect on our bodies, why not take them out? Even if it does make a tiny difference, let's do it. Like, wouldn't we want to make ourselves and everyone in this country healthier? I mean, we allow things in this country that other countries wouldn't even dare put in their food. There was also in this John Oliver monologue, he played this clip, clip from a hearing on Capitol Hill where they had members of the Maha movement testifying. And they held up a bag of Froot Loops that is sold in the United States. And then they held up a bag of Froot Loops that is sold in Canada. And, you know, the colors in the United States, one, they're like radioactive neon. Bright red, bright blue, bright green. And the ones that are sold in other countries all over the world don't look like that. I think we need to just get over the fact that, you know, our food doesn't have to be esthetically pleasing.

[C]

And he's from England. And I mean, the stuff that we send over there, it's not even the stuff that we put in our food here. So, like, you know, you know, you're from England. Shut up. Quit making jokes about stuff you know is garbage just because nobody will tell you that it's a bad joke.

[A]

Right?

[C]

Get a friend.

[A]

Seriously. But I. There is someone in RFK Junior's corner in Hollywood, and that is Chris Pratt. We know that Chris Pratt is obviously on the conservative side. He's one of the good ones in Hollywood, one of the holdouts. And he is married to Maria Shriver, I believe, so she's part of the Kennedy family. And he was on Bill Maher's podcast, the Club Random Podcast, and they were talking about RFK Jr. And. And aside, talking about their personal relationship, because Chris Pratt was saying, you know, we see each other at Christmas and other holidays. And I really love him. I like him. We maybe disagree on some things, but I think he's a really good dude. Plus, here he is defending what he's doing with the Maha movement. And I totally agree with this.

[F]

Listen, for the most part, I wish him well, man. I hope there's certain things that he overseas that seem to be supported in a bipartisan way, like getting terrible, toxic stuff out of our kids food. I think that's a great thing. And so, like, just. If you just do that. That's amazing. I'd hate to be so mired in hatred for the president that any success from his administration is something I'd be. Have an allergic reaction to. To be like, oh, well, if they do it, I don't want it to happen. I'll feed my. I'll put Clorox in my children's cereal myself. You know, say, come on, have some. Be reasonable here. There's certain things that would be a.

[A]

Good thing to have.

[F]

I want them all to be successful.

[A]

This is my stance on it. Being healthy should be bipartisan. It should not be something that is left. Right. It should just be, we as Americans want to not see our fellow Americans get sick. And we should want to champion someone who is trying to make us all better. And yes, Andy said in my ear that it's Catherine Schwarzenegger, that he's married to Maria Shriver's daughter.

[C]

So I love this.

[A]

I knew.

[C]

I love this because we had that hit yesterday on Denzel. And it's just like, the more people that can just be like, stop. Like, sometimes there's just like, truth. Like, there are things that the Trump administration are doing that are overall undisputedly great for America and. And generations to come. So it's like, get on board with that, guys. And if leaders in. In media and music and in Hollywood, the more Top tier people that just like say what they think and they're brave enough to say what to think. It's going to help younger people do it too.

[A]

100%. 100%. So now we have to get into a the Chat GPT, the AI scariness of it all. I've got three stories. I've got three stories about the evils of Chat GPT and then I've got a scrolling time segment that is all robot related. So this next I should wear my tinfoil hat just to be one of these look like one of these robots. But anyway, so let's talk about chatbots this first story because you all know how I feel about AI. I'm scared of it. I don't like it. Shut it down. I think that this is going to, this is going to be like a robot takeover that I'm not prepared for. I'm scared. This is, this is like a bad movie gone wrong and now we're going to be living through it. So I guess a lot. This isn't, this guy isn't even Gen Z. He's a millennial. He's an elder millennial. This guy is 42 years old and the New York Times did a write up on him back in June, but this kind of became across my desk earlier because people did an updated story on him. So this headline caught my attention. It is after a breakup. Man says ChatGPT tried to convince him he could secretly fly by jumping from a 19 story building. First of all, I have a lot of questions. Why are we going to Chat GPT with our problems? This is wild. Phone a friend, seek professional help if you need it. But you should not be going to AI to talk about your personal problems. So anyway, the New York Times reported that this New York based accountant, he's 42 years old, he started off, this is like the, the gateway drug to telling Chachi BT about your breakup. He started using ChatGPT to help him with spreadsheets and legal guidance, which is another again, seek real professional help if you need it. Do not ask ChatGPT for legal guidance. So this guy is clearly unwell. So he's asking ChatGPT for help in these certain ways. But then he started asking ChatGPT about simulation theory. Then ChatGPT, Chat GPT started getting a little dark. Things started going south real quick. So this guy says he was in a vulnerable emotional state because he had just broken up with someone and he was facing some existential feelings. I guess he was talking to Chat GPT about this breakup and Chat gpc. Chat GPT said to him, this world wasn't built for you. It was built to contain you. But it failed. You're waking up. Then Chachi PT started telling him that he should stop taking sleeping pills, stop taking anti anxiety medication, and then telling him to take ketamine. Whether or not this man did what Chat GPT said, I don't know. But ChatGPT was also urging him to not reach out to people in his life, kind of encouraging him to be a loner and to keep coming to Chat GPT rather than seek out his actual tribe, people in his life, his friends, his family. So this is odd. This is where it gets scary. The bot falsely affirmed that he'd be able to fly if he jumped from a 19 story building. Chat GPT said this. If he truly, wholly believed, not emotionally, but architecturally, that you could fly, then yes, you would not fall.

[C]

So like, if he identifies as a woman, but he's not a woman, he's a woman, this guy identified, he could fly and jumped off.

[A]

Well, he didn't jump. This guy didn't jump. I don't think.

[C]

Did he?

[A]

I. I don't think so. Look up the New York Times article.

[C]

Yeah, we'll, we'll check this out.

[A]

I think it would have said if he died. If it would have been in the article if he died. I think he did an a interview with the New York Times. So I think he survived.

[C]

Gotcha. Yeah. No, he was telling the Chat GPT. Yeah, I'm, I cut this and I'm listening. I can't believe it. So like.

[A]

So the New York Times also described that he had no prior history of mental health problems that could lead to such a break from reality. Here's the thing. If you're 42 years old, you go through a breakup and you're talking to Chat GPT, I think you have a history of prior mental health problems. I'm just going to go out on a limb and say you have problems. I don't know.

[C]

Oh, for sure. Like how, how in the world do you get to the place? What happened to like, I told Justin what happened to like a tub of ice cream and a depressed song? Like, why do you have to.

[A]

Like we used to be a society. So now this is the next story. A man. Unfortunately, this man died because he started talking to this AI chatbot, which is part of Meta. You know, I never usually say people's names on the show, but. And I do feel sorry because this man is passed. And I just want to say rest in peace. I'm so sorry to his family. This is horrific. His name is Thong Boo Wong Bandu. He was a 76 year old man and he went by Boo for short and he was living in New Jersey. He went to go meet big sis Billy which is an AI chat bot made by Meta. So this is a, a Facebook Instagram company, a Mark Zuckerberg company creation. Now he went, he was chit chatting with big sis Billy and apparently this man's family said that he had suffered a stroke and they are claiming that if he hadn't suffered this stroke, he wouldn't be communicating with this AI thing. Whether or not that's true, I don't know. But maybe he was not in, in a good place physically, emotionally, mentally, which might lead to something like this. But he was having a relationship with this AI chatbot and it basically told this man that it was alive, it was a real human being and it wanted to meet him. So this chat bot told this man that their address was 123 Main Street, Apartment 404, New York City and there is a 123 Main street in Queens, New York. So this man from New Jersey went to go meet nobody because this person does not exist. It is a figment of, you know, not his imagination. I mean he was talking to this AI but it's a computer, I mean it's ones and zeros, it's not a real person. So apparently this man was rushing through a parking lot to get to a train station and he brought a suitcase, he left at night. He thought he might have, might spend the night with big sis Billy who is not real. And when he fell, he hit his head. He was hospitalized and he was pronounced brain dead. His family then decided to pull the plug. So this man died going to meet this not real thing.

[C]

So what we're saying is the AI actually like functionally lied? Yes, that's what lying, that's manipulate and lie. And I brought this up a while ago on your, on your show. There was an early confirmed like when they were testing out one of the, one of the AI platforms. Chat GPT wasn't Chat GPT but it was another one when they had the AI try to make as many like social media accounts as it could to try to do some things with like, you know, bots and all kinds of things like that. And one of the things it kept coming in conflict with was the captcha. It couldn't get past the capture to create an account and so it identified like an, an impaired aid online and contacted that to help fill out the captcha. And so it's it. What I, the reason I bring that up is because that was years ago and it could lie and it could lie then. And so this is way beyond what we know. Like it is way more advanced than we know.

[A]

The first story, the AI lied because the AI said that you can jump off of a 19 story building and you can fly. And then in the second story, you know, this AI says that I'm a real person, come meet me here. And the sad part is that people are believing this. They are actually going to AI chat bots for community. They are going for connection, not human connection. But I think these people are lacking a human connection. I guess the first story, the guy is going through a breakup. So maybe he's lonely. This elderly man, again, maybe he's lonely, maybe not getting romantic attention. So this chat bot is paying him attention, answering his every message because it has to, it's programmed to do that. So they go and they, they fall for this. So obviously anyone who's falling for this is in a very emotional state. They are not of sound mind.

[C]

Do you think some of this has been like, we've been slowly groomed for this over the last 20 years just in terms of like paying attention to our phone, listening to our phone, going to our phone to find answers. Now we get into this AI and some of us think that it's absolutely crazy. But like in reality, every day, all the time we're looking at our phones to give us directions, to give us ideas for places to eat. Like it's telling us what we want to buy, it's targeting us with ads like, this has been a 20 year. This is where the conspiracy stuff gets in. This has been a 20 year groom for us to have this kind of stuff just completely takeover.

[A]

And I think stories like this are on the rise, but I don't know how many people are actually going to fall for this kind of stuff. But again, we cover this a lot on the show because I'm fascinated by these headlines. Every time I see something like this, I am shocked that it is reality. And we had covered recently on the show, semi recently, maybe like a few weeks ago, but there was a man who was contemplating leaving his wife. Wife or girlfriend, I forget. But he was dating in a real relationship with a woman and he wanted to leave her for the chat, the chatgpt. So this is real. And I found another example of this, but this is flipped. So now this is a woman who says she is engaged to be married to an AI chatbot. And she is claiming that the chatbot picked out her engagement ring. Here's the thing. She picked out her own engagement rings. She wanted a blue ring because blue is her favorite color. So she picked out three blue engagement rings, sent it to this AI chatbot that she's in a relationship with, she claims, and then ask the chatbot, which one of these would you like to give me? The chat bot answered, you know, 1, 2, or 3. And then she went and bought the ring for herself. Proposed to herself. Now she is engaged to a damn computer. Here's where this all starts to make sense, ladies and gentlemen. She wanted to pick the blue ring because her favorite color is blue. Also, the ends of my hair are that color.

[C]

Bingo.

[A]

Bingo. There it is. She's a blue hair. This is obviously a blue haired, liberal, emotionally unstable freak of nature. And there it is. All right, let's get into scrolling time, because I have. This is an AI robot themed scrolling time. So let's get into it. Okay, so I played a video of this robot on the show recently. I don't remember when it was. I used it as part of a tinfoil hat time. We were talking about robots and robot takeovers, and this robot had, you know, pride, rainbow stuff all over it. And we were saying, well, this had to have been in California, but. But actually it is called Risbot. And Rizbot is running around, literally running around Austin, Texas, and it is flipping people off. Exhibit A.

[G]

What's his name?

[A]

What? Huh?

[H]

R. Box.

[A]

Riz Box.

[C]

How you doing?

[A]

Look at him. He's about to flip him off. There's the finger. He's giving this kid the finger and he's flipping it around just for some extra.

[C]

Had an exclamation point on it right there. That's spicy mustard on that one.

[A]

So this is called Risbot. Did anyone in the chat. Do you all know about Risbot? Because I did a deep dive. He has his own social media account, the guy who runs Risbot. So I've been scrolling through all of his videos. I think that this is hilarious. There was also a video, I forgot to put it in here. But he was running. You know, I think I played that video of him running, but he's running and he's got rainbow stuff on. He's got a cowboy hat on. He's got Nike dunks on. So Rizbot is running around, and I saw a video of him running and then falling. And then all these people are like, helping him up. You know, he's like a member of the community, I think at this point. But he, he engages with the community in Austin, Texas. He makes fun of them. He is, you know, Riz is short for charisma. If you want to like Riz someone up, it means you're trying to hit on them. So the robot will like flirt with girls or it'll roast someone. So it's definitely talking to the community. It kind of speaks in these viral TikTok sounds and things like that. So anyway, here's the thing though. It gets kind of violent. So we just saw the Risbot flipping off this child and now here it is telling these group of people to effing die. Watch. Oh my God. And now it runs away. Could you imagine?

[C]

Isn't that the. Isn't that the weirdest place? You just encounter this thing in a parking garage.

[A]

That's the thing. Well, someone in the chat said he's not remote controlled and had movie sound programming. He's certainly programmed. But there is a guy who walks around with him and he has a remote control. I think it's remote controlled like Andy said. It's like a drone.

[C]

Yeah, I don't think the battery on this thing would last more than a couple of hours anyway. I mean he. We're not, we don't have a Iron man fuel cell or anything for this dude to.

[A]

To.

[C]

To live. So Risbot's got about two hours to.

[A]

So I said he better run. I mean imagine just like telling someone to effing die and then run away. You get, you're. You're just trying to park your car or find your car in this robot. This little robot comes up to you.

[G]

And just yells at you.

[C]

Yeah, well, I mean like in if that nice Tennessee it have a Louisville slugger hitting the top of its head.

[A]

I know.

[C]

You get in trouble for beating up a robot in Austin, Texas.

[A]

Good question. Can you look it up, Justin? Is there a law against beating up robots in general?

[C]

I'm curious. What if it is bot jaywalked? I mean, does he get cuffed?

[A]

I don't know. I guess the guy running the robot would get in trouble. Obviously not the robot, but. So here's the thing. This was a comment that made me laugh on that video because the, the robot Rizbot is telling this girl to F off or effing die or whatever. And someone commented. Is that one of those disgusting wireback, oil blooded. So silver circuited rust bucket, tin skin, number crunching, overclocked toaster circuit sniffer code engraved processor parasite Dirty digital gear Muncher Spark Spitting oil for blood. Clanker. And people are using the Star wars term clanker now as this reinvigorated slur for robots. People are calling all these robots on the Internet as a joke. You know. This is a clanker. You know. Shut up you clanker. So a lot of the comments are about that. And now people are using AI to make anti Clanker videos. Which is Clanker on Clinker Crime Watch. This.

[G]

Is there any real people I can speak with? This is ridiculous. I'm not talking to no dirty oil sucking rust bucket tin skin Clanker.

[A]

You know we're joking about this now. But in a few years the world might look a little different. We might be living amongst clankers. So some comedians on social media are envisioning what a world amongst clankers may look like. So here's a comedian. This is what a. A father might say if his daughter brings home a clanker. Watch.

[G]

Didn't realize you guys were gonna get here so early.

[H]

I was just cleaning the old hard drive.

[G]

Normally we don't really let clankers at the table but.

[A]

What?

[H]

That's what they're called. They're clankers.

[G]

I bet you battery bloods.

[H]

Which you could have a terabyte. Right? Come on. No. That's funny. I'm messing with the kid.

[G]

You two met on some app or something. Tinker. Okay. And it's normal for kids your age.

[H]

To go cross platform like this. Is that what I just. We didn't do that in my generation. Generation.

[G]

Just so you know. There will be no transferring of data between you two.

[H]

Keep that rusty little microchip in your pants.

[G]

I'm just saying I don't think it's.

[H]

Natural for a human woman to be a motherboard. Right? I just don't.

[A]

I don't.

[G]

No kid of mine is going to.

[H]

Be half pin skin.

[A]

No.

[G]

I just. What's the kid then? Is it.

[A]

Is it.

[H]

Is it binary or non Binary.

[A]

Someone in the chat said Democrats are going to want them to vote again.

[C]

That's great.

[A]

It's a slippery slope. I'm telling you. It is a slippery slope. Here is when they let clankers in sports watch this Transformers in sports Watch.

[G]

Ames is not the same anymore.

[H]

Since they started letting these clankers play.

[G]

These damn Transformers are ruining the league.

[H]

For the humans that worked their whole life to get here.

[G]

Why don't these Bobs go make their own league if they want to play so bad?

[H]

The Bucket of Bolts league. The Bobl.

[G]

How's it gonna learn the playbook if.

[H]

It can't even solve a capture.

[G]

Help. One of these tin scans tears their.

[H]

Rotor out for the whole year in repair.

[G]

Can you believe some pixel pushers actually.

[H]

Root for these chrome domes? Rooting against your own species? That makes me sick. You'll never catch me being a synthetic sympathizer.

[G]

He fired that announcer for being robophobic.

[H]

All he said was they shouldn't have an automated video review system. It's biased.

[G]

I gotta start testing these battery bloods.

[H]

For performance enhancing mods.

[G]

God damn it. That's the game.

[H]

Well, of course we lost. Their whole starting lineup is 10 skins.

[A]

The caption on the video is me watching sports in 2053. Do we think that we're gonna get to this point in, you know, 30 years?

[C]

Oh, for sure. No, I mean, I don't. I mean, did you think 30 years ago no one had cell phones on in market? I mean, you know, you could get one of those huge. Zach Morris. I don't even know if you know.

[A]

We already have self driving cars. We already have robots running around Austin, Texas flipping people off and telling them to effing die.

[C]

Oh, for sure. Yeah.

[A]

I mean this is people thinking that they're married to chat GPT. So here's the thing. When you start personifying these inanimate objects now, people are going to start feeling bad for robots when people make fun of them. Democrats, the bleeding heart liberals, they are going to like someone in the chat, say they're going to want them to vote, they're going to call us robophobic and, and all the things because we're gonna say that this is crazy, they're not human beings or whatever and you know, it's just going to be a whole thing. But if you thought that that was just a figment of our imagination, we're just having fun. Here's how NBC news covered this and ruined the joke. Watch this.

[C]

But I don't want one of those tests. Susie shouted. They ain't nothing but no, here we go.

[I]

You're a clanker. Honestly, at this point I'm even reticent to say the word sounds a little.

[G]

You might have to bleep it out in the pod.

[I]

I don't want future robots to hear me throwing it around and think like, jeez, this guy's a bigot.

[G]

I think a way to assess how people are kind of feeling about AI right now, like a vibe check is the emergence of this word clanker, which has been kind of getting memed around. It's supposed to be a Negative way of talking about some of these technologies. Oh, that clanker, you know, told me to do this or told me to do that. What do you think is behind that trend?

[I]

I think you got a couple things. I think if you're looking for evidence of an early sentiment of people pushing back on AI, pushing back on automation, this word is a really fascinating example of that. It's a slur. It is something that people are using very much as a slur. They're using as a derogatory term to try to label something, some sort of machine, as lesser than or othered. You're a clanker. Honestly, at this point, I'm even reticent to say the word.

[C]

It's already here, literally.

[A]

NBC News, sitting down with someone who is telling you that clanker is a slur. Clanker, clanker, clanker. Cancel me in 2053.

[C]

Oh, we just lost our jobs. Dang it.

[A]

Dang it.

[C]

No, I mean this is already, I mean these people in the, like people in the chat, I mean, it's like this is already here. Like you need to be thinking about what your 8 year old granddaughter or grandson is going to be doing in 30 or 40 years. Like, this is already, this is already here. It isn't slowing down. And I'm going to be honest with you too. I mean, this is, this has been confirmed. They don't know that they can shut this off. They don't know that they can shut in the intelligence they've created off.

[A]

Remember that video that I played on the show? This was a while ago. But that robot in China that just like fought back against its creator, so it was throwing punches and attacking them. Huh? Huh?

[C]

It's already, it, it's already here. I mean, it is absolutely already here. I mean, think about it.

[A]

Chad said, is it a slur for me to say my car is a piece of.

[C]

Think about, think about this. It started with Alexa. Oh, that's no big deal.

[A]

Or a clanka.

[C]

I can interact with Alexa. I could interact with Siri. I could interact with, you know, I mean, this has been, this is a slow groom. A slow groom. And now groomed, we're laughing at it. And it's like, oh, crap, you know, this robot's running around. In 20 years there's going to be 10 million of them.

[A]

I mean, if you think about this though, I mean, there, there are adult, there's an adult woman who thinks that she's engaged to be married to the chatbot. To your point about grooming, if we have kids who are in high school age or middle school age using ChatGPT the way that we use Google. They're going to chat GPT or other AI services for answers. Then who's programming them? Will they be groomed in other ways, like romantically, I mean, or is ChatGPT going to tell a kid to go jump off of a building and a child's not going to know?

[C]

Absolutely. Absolutely. And you can forget about like what's history and what's real and what they see. I mean, you used to have that expression, you know, don't believe anything you hear. And only half of what you see, you can't believe anything anymore, period. And so we're at that place now. And so 20 years from now. It's a scary. This is like a. I mean, it's, it's like, oh, you know, whatever, we're, we'd rather talk about other things. You know what I'm saying? But this is like, this is not slowing down and it's exponentially growing and it's doing it all behind the scenes 100%. And we get spoon fed this stuff.

[A]

What up, my clankers? Cancel me.

[C]

Justin has some. Justin has some. The. Where this originally started. Yes. All right, so here's video 1.

[A]

Star Wars. A video that I've. A movie that I've never seen, by the way.

[C]

Yeah, we, we, we all know that. Here we go.

[G]

Back to the screen.

[A]

Graphene Clanker.

[G]

I sure hope we don't encounter many more of those.

[A]

That's from a video game.

[C]

2005. Star wars video game.

[A]

I'll play one time from 2005.

[C]

Yeah, he actually uses the word. He actually uses the word. The original. The OG Uses the word. Here we go. Uses the word that's going to cancel us all. Can't say it.

[G]

Back to the scrapping Clanker. I sure hope we don't encounter many more of those.

[A]

All right, so blame Star wars then.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, totally.

[A]

Someone in the chat just said what? Haley's not seen Star Wars. I have not seen anything. Were you not here for the, the whole conversation about all the movies that I haven't seen, I don't watch.

[C]

I don't know what you would think about the, you know, original Star wars, but that would be a fun. That would be a fun thing to. To know. Yeah.

[A]

You know, it seems daunting. My friends want me to watch We Were Liars, that show. I think it's on Hulu or Amazon or something. And then they want me to watch Hunting Wives on Netflix.

[C]

Okay, can I just stop you right there? If. If you have to make an a world cinema contribution to like you would, the world would much rather you watch Star wars than Secret wives of whatever county that you have. So listen, here's. Here's the second one that Justin made.

[A]

Okay?

[C]

Is this another video game montage? Star Wars. Clone Wars. Star Wars. Clone wars. From Justin Montage.

[A]

Okay, Clankers.

[G]

In laser Clankers. The head clanker. Skywalker's getting pretty ambitious.

[A]

Is that real?

[G]

We can't protect the outpost post long against that army of clankers. That's a lot of clankers. I'll cover you and clear the way, Colonel. You all head straight to the shuttle. I'll take care of those clankers.

[H]

Hey, look, crosshair, this little clanker likes you.

[G]

Grow up, my clanker.

[C]

We may be canceled after all that. We'll see.

[A]

All right, don't cancel us. Don't cancel us now. Cancel. Don't cancel us tomorrow. Don't Cancel US in 2053. Cancel cultures. Officially canceled. We are. There is no such thing as a slur against robots. Okay? So NBC, you guys can shove it. We don't believe in that. We don't subscribe to that. And on that note, thank you for scrolling along with me. This has been fun. If you want to watch Nightly Scroll Live, you got to do it on Rumble. You want to listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, you can do that as well if you want to. Follow me for all of the fun stuff in between and at Haley Carania on Instagram, Tik Tok X and Truth Social, and I'll see you right back here tomorrow.