The Musers The Podcast – Episode 20: "Amish Sex Robots"

Release date: November 5, 2025
Hosts: George Dunham, Craig "Junior" Miller, Gordon Keith
Network: Cumulus Podcast Network

Overview

This episode of The Musers The Podcast dives deep—often hilariously and sometimes a little uncomfortably—into the future of human intimacy and relationships in an increasingly digital world, focusing especially on the rise of AI and sex robots. The trio's signature mix of absurdity, insight, and banter comes through as they confront a sensitive topic: What does it mean for humanity when technology promises frictionless relationships, virtual companionship, and even artificial intimacy? Buckle up for a wild, thoughtful ride.

Key Discussion Points

1. Listener Mail, Nostalgia, and Show Set-Up

• Letter of the Week: The Musers begin with their classic "Letter of the Week" segment, reading entertaining and sometimes poignant messages from long-time devoted listeners. Emails touch on topics as varied as prop bets, past episodes about failure, and funny family moments.
  • Memorable quote: “He says that quick piece of advice you gave to George about our responsibility to live our best life and how you helped him did bring tears and it's already helping me continue on.” (03:27, Letter from Stephan)
• The conversation steers from sports betting and podcast nostalgia to the destabilization of reality by artificial intelligence.
  • “Once we all have AI players and coaches, I guess there won't be any more insider trading…at least it won't be done by humans.” (04:24, Email from Teresa)

2. The Inevitable Rise of AI in Life and Play

• Hosts debate the prospect of AI completely taking over entertainment and sports:
  • Would you watch AI vs. AI sporting events? Surf hologram concerts?
  • “At first we're going to try to make things look as realistic as possible. And then I think that humans are going to start preferring things that look a little bit more unreal.” (05:31, Gordon)
  • “It almost feels like the Internet is post-human.” (07:09, Gordon)
• Speculate on a future where bots talk to bots, content is AI-generated, and reality blurs.

3. Human Connection: Is Real Intimacy Dying?

• The central theme emerges: Will technology render human connection obsolete?
• The loss of social skills, declining birth rates (1.6 children per woman—below replacement), and atrophying human interaction.
  • “Everyone is tending to have less and less sex…The U.S. birth rate is now…I think it's 1.6 children per female. And that is well below the replacement rate.” (10:25, Gordon)
  • “We've never been more connected and experienced less connection with other people.” (13:45, Gordon)
• The "path of least resistance" as human nature: why actual relationships are harder (and thus now often avoided in favor of easier, digital connections).
  • “Think about all the angst you have when you want to ask somebody out…the nervousness…Well, the easier path is AI generated relationships.” (14:08, Craig)

4. Sex Robots: The Last Taboo?

• The trio tackles the titular subject—sex robots—examining what separates digital love from flesh-and-blood intimacy.
  • “We make technology to make our lives easier. But now we got this collision course of cutting edge technology that's barreling into old school biology…and it could be a fatal accident.” (08:48, Gordon)
  • They discuss survey statistics: “One study last year found that 40% of Americans would like to have sex with a robot, are not opposed to having that experience.” (25:56, Gordon)
  • Gender and sex tech: how women have long used “electronic men,” broadening the conversation to vibrators and social acceptance.
    • “You mean to tell me every one of these women don’t have an electronic man in their nightstand that they turn on and get to buzzing?” (26:43, Gordon)
• Question whether people can genuinely fall in love with robots or AI, with references to people already treating large language models (e.g., ChatGPT) as friends, or even romantic partners.
  • “We’ve heard this from several friends where the ChatGPT has kind of become their friend. It’s become their best friend. …It’s become their mother.” (30:58, Gordon)

5. Resisting the Digital Tide: The "New Amish"

• George and friends wonder: Is there hope for a “real humanism” movement—a modern resistance akin to the Amish, preserving flesh-and-blood life, conversation, and music against the coming digital flood?
  • “I want real conversation. I want real music…not something that was created because someone said, hey, I want to hear the Beatles and Rolling Stones do a Taylor Swift song and then all Of a sudden. That’s our new song. No, I want a real [song].” (18:00, George)
  • “We’re going to be in a new Amish.” (19:04, Craig)
• Ponder whether such a subculture can survive against mass adoption of frictionless, AI-mediated convenience.

6. Consequences for Society and Identity

• AI and technology's impact on meaning, suffering, and growth: If technology eliminates all friction and challenge, what is left of meaning?
  • “If you don’t have suffering, then how do you have meaning? …You don’t have skills. And then…you start cocooning…and we’re not having enough babies now.” (11:51, Gordon)
  • Enduring theme: Engineering meaning out of life and the inevitability of tech’s “logical end point.”
    • “At some point, life gets so easy that nothing is worth anything.” (22:28, Gordon)
• Predicting the timeline: disagreement over how soon the mass AI intimacy shift will come.
  • “If it is five or ten years away, I will swear I’ll get off the Internet, I’ll get rid of my phone, and I’m starting this Giorgio Amish.” (35:04, George)
  • Craig responds the endgame is closer than most think: “So whatever you think is 50 or 60 years away, you need to divide that way down. It’s probably five or ten years away.” (34:00, Craig)

7. The Future of Parenting and Family

• Could AI replace not just spouses, but parents? Would you volunteer your child to be raised by a “perfect” AI parent for their own good? Or is “messy humanity” essential for growth?
  • “One of the greatest tragedies of becoming a parent is knowing how much you’re going to fail your kids….Here’s a loving alternative. You can raise your kid perfectly with the AI parent we’re going to hook you up to.” (36:09, Gordon)
• The epidemic of loneliness—even in a hyperconnected age.
  • “There are more lonely people in the world today than ever before.” (37:12, Craig)

8. The Downward Slide: From Texting to Total Virtualization

• The group reflects somberly (with jokes) on the creeping normalization of digital relationships:
  • “More than 50% of your interaction with your friends…is text and not in person. So you’re already there.” (55:17, Craig)
  • “I just want to stay at home naked, slip inside my haptic suit, and then experience VR sex all the time.” (52:00, Gordon)
• Even everyday life becomes digital: groceries, shopping, music, even snacks—raising the question, “What even counts as real anymore?”

9. Is Resistance Futile? Final Thoughts

• Honest self-reflection from all three hosts: Each confesses to falling prey to frictionless convenience—even as they worry about what it’s doing to themselves, their families, and the species.
  • “I just sit here and then I can watch someone travel on TV. Yeah. And it makes for a less meaningful life.” (39:41, Gordon)
• They wonder what their parents or grandparents would think of today’s—and tomorrow’s—world.
  • “We talk about stories all the time. What if your dad heard this story?...I think he would just combust.” (43:22, George)
• End with a darkly comic vision of a world where being physically social—or even going on a date with a real person—seems bizarre and deviant.

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On AI Sports and Reality:
  “It almost feels like the Internet is post-human.” (07:09, Gordon)

• On Loneliness in a Connected World:
  “We’ve never been more connected and experienced less connection with other people.” (13:45, Gordon)

• On Sex Robots and Survey Data:
  “One study last year found that 40% of Americans would like to have sex with a robot, are not opposed to having that experience.” (25:56, Gordon)

• On the Appeal of Tech-Perfect Relationships:
  “You mean to tell me there’s a lot of women who would not want the perfect man? If he was non biologically based. He looks just like Brad Pitt…you feel seen and you feel heard…” (27:04, Gordon)

• On Generational Change:
  “Think for your great grandparents, if you went back a thousand years and brought those people to their time, it wouldn’t look all that different…Now just fast forward 100 years…look how incredibly different it is.” (42:54, Craig)

• On the Amish Analogy:
  "We're going to be in a new Amish." (19:04, Craig)

• On AI Parenting:
  “Here's a loving alternative. You can raise your kid perfectly with the AI parent we're going to hook you up to.” (36:44, Gordon)

Timestamps for Key Segments

• [00:00–05:00] – Listener Email of the Week; setup for AI theme
• [05:00–09:00] – AI reality, hologram concerts, post-human internet
• [09:00–16:00] – Technology vs. human intimacy, declining birth rates, meaningful struggle
• [16:00–25:00] – Tension and awkwardness in relationships; why humans crave friction
• [25:00–35:00] – Sex robot studies, societal shifts in sexuality, digital love
• [35:00–45:00] – Amish comparisons, how quickly change is accelerating
• [45:00–55:00] – Everyday automation, digital relationships as the new norm
• [55:00–61:00] – Reflection on parenting, final existential concerns

Tone & Language

The episode is frank, sardonic, and self-aware. The hosts slip constantly between philosophical seriousness and acerbic punchlines, keeping heavy themes accessible. They unapologetically “think out loud,” voicing both hope and regret, concern and amusement about the strange world their children—and listeners—are inheriting.

For Listeners Who Missed It

“Amish Sex Robots” is classic Musers: probing, ridiculous, and real. The episode serves up thought-provoking insight into the technological future of sex, love, and society—delivered with wit and the warmth of a real-life, three-way friendship.

Even if you’re skeptical about AI or think you’d never go for a robot, brace yourself: you’ll come away realizing we’re already partway down that road, whether we like it or not. And, as Gordo warns, “At some point, life gets so easy that nothing is worth anything.” (22:28)

Highly recommended as a conversation starter—or as a companion to your latest existential dread about the future.