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Someone just paid $22 a month to have AI recreate their dead dad's voice.
Welcome to 2025, where grief has a subscription model.
Jack Austin and Adam Garcia dive into the week's most disturbing tech development: AI companies literally profiting from death.
Plus: Conor McGregor's presidential ambitions, Chinese zoos banning TikTok for monkeys, and a drunk raccoon getting CPR.
In this episode:
✓ Why "grief tech" is the most dystopian thing we've seen this year
✓ The $22/month subscription to talk to dead relatives
✓ Connor McGregor, Michael Flatley, and Bob Geldof's Irish election circus
✓ China protecting chimps from TikTok (but not children)
✓ Drunk raccoon saved by hero nurse in Kentucky
✓ Why 11 Labs can't get Jack's voice right
Key revelations:
How companies like Eternos are commercialising grief with AI "digital twins"
The Irish presidential race becoming Celebrity Big Brother 2026
Why showing phones to zoo animals is now banned
The dark psychology of never letting go
Quote of the episode:
"The goal isn't to create digital ghosts" - CEO charging money to create digital ghosts
Timestamps:
00:00 AI resurrection services are here
00:10 The ethics of talking to dead relatives
00:20 Irish presidential election chaos
00:24 Connor McGregor's Lamborghini yacht
00:35 China bans TikTok for chimps
00:40 Drunk raccoon CPR rescue
00:46 80s cartoon nostalgia
00:54 Cat attacks owner on stairs
Notable moments:
Jack considering pranking his mom with his dead dad's voice
The revelation that Bob Geldof owns TV companies
A chimp getting anxiety from Instagram reels
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