He Took the Upgrade and Left His Wife & Kids in Coach?! | The Treehouse Show

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1:33 First Class Dad. That is where we are starting today. Trey, if you were married and had two kids and you are booked on an intercontinental flight and out of nowhere, the gate agent upgraded your ticket to first class, but the wife and the kids are staying in economy. Are you going to take it? I want to say that I would be smart enough to not take it, but that is a very tempting offer. Yes, it is. Now, in this story, the wife and kids are in economy plus, not just base economy. So, you know, they've got a little extra leg room. It's not the worst thing.

2:23 They're not in an overhead bin or anything. Yeah. Am I the a-hole for accepting a free first class upgrade when my wife and kids were stuck in premium economy? Um, I think this really depends on so many factors. First of all, if you're just asking, are you an a-hole for it? Um, I'm going to say no. So I don't know how much of the story you read. There is a key factor in this. Which is?

3:03 Which is the husband booked his tickets. His tickets were booked separately from the wife and kids. He was on a business trip, and then I think they met up with him. So it wasn't a complete where, you know, we all got booked together and they're just singling me out. Part of it was, and he says it was probably a premium economy is probably oversold. You know, so he didn't have a choice. She doesn't see it that way. The wife does not. The wife does not see it that way because she was really excited. So here he says, last week, my wife, our two kids, flew back from Asia to Europe, an 11-hour flight. Both kids, young teenagers, so they're fine on their own, right? He checks in for the flight, and he was asked if he would be interested in upgrading to business. The upgrade was not free. It was more than $ 1, 000 per person. So he's like, no, we're not going to do that. Then, He says, when we were boarding, the gate agent took my boarding pass, crossed out my seat number, and wrote down a different one. She then said, upgrade to business. Cue the angels singing, the clouds parting,

4:35 the sun shining, harps are playing. This is your day. This is your gift from God. To fly the heavenly skies. Especially, you know, back in my drinking days, there is nothing sweeter than the upgrade to a business or first class. Because then it's basically it's free champagne. You're you're you're rolling. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's it's not only just ass kissing, but it's also an open bar. He says, obviously, I accepted the upgrade. Now, this is my favorite part of the story. So the gate agent takes his boarding pass, crosses out his seat number, and says, upgrade to first class. He says, obviously, I accepted the upgrade. But then here's the twist that I love.

5:27 He says, my wife actually seemed excited when she saw me being upgraded. She seemed genuinely happy that I got the opportunity to experience first class. No, she was not excited for you. She was excited for her because she was assuming that you would do the chivalrous thing and say, no, no, no, please offer this to my wife. Yeah. Let's be honest. What this really is, is which one of us is going to be stuck with kids? I love his next line. As far as I could tell, everything was completely fine.

6:08 And she probably said, oh, it's fine. When your wife says it's fine, it's never fine. If you are saying, as far as I could tell, everything was completely fine, you're the cartoon dog in the meme surrounded by fire saying everything is fine. It's not fine. He says there was no argument, no indication that she was upset, and she never said that she wanted me to sit with her and the kids. I can hear the argument in my head. She never said that she wanted me to sit with her and the kids. I shouldn't have to say it. You should want to. Yeah, I can hear that in my head.

6:54 Oh, no. Sure. Go sit up there. It's fine. You enjoy yourself. Yeah, I'll be back here stewing for 11 hours. See you when we get to plane. Then his next sentence. However, now she's angry. I'll take... We all saw this coming for a thousand Alex. Here's my question. And Dan, you've obviously... You've been married for quite a long time. Yeah. I have never been married. And I can't even keep a woman around. So....

7:36 Don't be so hard on yourself. How... How are you married? And they have teenage kids, so they've obviously been married for quite a while. How are you married to someone for this long and you're so clueless? That is a great question. I think there are some people, and in this case there are just some men, that are so astonishingly stupid, I question if it's intentional. Intentional. Because I can't wrap my brain around someone being so dense that they don't get it, that they don't understand. And it's not just, okay, this is your wife, you should know better. This is like... Any relationship, if you get...

8:25 If there's an upgrade to be had, the wife is going to expect that she's going to get it. And how you thought... because this isn't just a wham, bam, there, I did it. This is, you're doing it, and literally, and by the time you, from takeoff to landing, probably 12 hours to stew on this one. I've heard just thinking about, you are relaxed, stretched out in the lap of luxury and business class, and she is, although a little extra leg room, still crammed with two annoying kids and coach. And as you're sitting in first class... And you feel the heat on the back of your neck. That is not the moist, hot, moist towel that they handed you.

9:15 Those are the laser beams from her eyeballs from the back of the plane into the back of your head. Yeah, especially when they close that curtain. Burns two holes right through it. Just singed. Now, he wants a little extra credit here because he says multiple times during the flight, He leaves his seat to go back to economy to visit the family just to see how they're doing. And I can tell you right now, that is the worst possible thing he could have done. You keep your ass in the front of the plane because every trip you made to economy was a reminder of where you weren't and where they were. weren't.

10:01 And it's not like in today's age, it's not like they could switch back and forth. I mean, once you have a seat, that's your seat. They're not going to let you switch. So yeah, you are just, he would have been better off turning off his phone and saying, ooh, I fell asleep. Versus a constant, constantly rubbing it in that he's in business class and they're in coach. And again, how is he so stupid not to realize that that is how it's going to be interpreted? Because as soon as he pulls that little curtain apart and she sees it because she has not stopped burning fire into the back of his head. So she sees him get up, make the slow walk, pull the curtain to the side and walking towards her. You're trying to tell me as a husband of this woman, you couldn't tell?

10:52 You couldn't see the pure dissatisfaction on her face every step you took to get closer to her seat? Oh, sweet Jesus. He says, I honestly didn't see the problem at the time. And to be honest, I still don't see it right now. Brother, I don't know what to tell you. If you are genuinely that stupid, you deserve all the consequences coming your way. I am so surprised the wife didn't get up and do a Jack Nicholson from the shining and poke her head through the curtains. Here's bitch.

11:37 Meanwhile, the entire air crew was like, where'd she get an ax? Yeah. Oh, she has entire air crews is looking at him going, You're dumb. We've seen this movie before. Everyone break out your phone. This is going to get good. Yeah. We're now offering free Wi-Fi on the plane so everyone can live stream this because this is going to be good and it's going to be evidence. Oh, man. I just I really this is something that befuddles me. My my entire adulthood is how and this is typically men. Let's be honest. is how some men just don't seem to get it. And they never do. I don't... Like, unless we paint it on a cave wall, are you ever going to get it?

12:33 Clearly not. I just... Jesus, man. I mean, that's... That's where I'm befuddled. And I've... Like, are some... couple is just so happily happy that the men are just oblivious or are they just oblivious? And the wife just bites her tongue. And, and I, I don't know how you, you get to this point and you you're befuddled why she's pissed off. You know how this plays out. At least you should. You should. And, and this is an interesting dynamic. This is where I go back to my original statement, which is, you know what, buddy, enjoy it. this is where I feel like equality should really start stepping up. I, as a married man for a number of years, if there was a free upgrade to be had, I absolutely am going to offer it to my wife. I genuinely want her to have it. But, but, I really want it.

13:45 And just once, I would like to be the total travel princess that I know lives inside of me and just enjoy that first class experience just once. Okay. Let me ask you a question. Let's go with this angle. See, I don't like where you're headed. You're about to give me a scenario that's going to get me in trouble. Well, and it may pertain to this story because I believe in the story it says he travels for work. But let's say It's not an upgrade you can give to your wife. It's either you take it or you don't.

14:25 All right. What do you do? Is this an A or B type of scenario? Yeah, you take it or you don't. C, I pull out a gun and shoot myself. I got to find another way out of this somehow. You've already gone through TSA. That's not an option. I take time to build one out of spare parts. Okay, then I take a chair, I take a wheelchair and throw it through the terminal glass, jump down onto the tarmac and run. And I just keep running like Forrest Gump for years and never stop. I would first ask, is it possible to redeem this on a future flight when these people aren't here?

15:14 Nope. This is a now or never. This is. Probably a once in a lifetime thing. If it's a once in a lifetime thing and I don't travel for work, I think at that point I got to be like, you know what? I'm going to take it. And the reason why is because this may never happen again. And I'm going to turn off everything. I am not going to go on the back to check on them. I am not going to send a text me like, hey, stop. This scenario with you is even more interesting because it's just you and Tara. So you would be leaving her alone. Now, she may push you into taking the upgrade and be like, oh, my God, 11 hours of peace.

15:56 She might. There also is that very real option. But let's not. Let's say she... She would like it too, but it's only offered to you. I'm going to take it and I'll deal with the fallout. Now, if I travel for work on a regular basis, then I am absolutely not going to touch that. I am going to sit with her or try to get her to sit in that seat. Because the more you fly, the odds are that you'll eventually get the magical upgrade. Well, that other question is that the other scenario I thought of in this, which maybe it wasn't an option, I don't know, was they offered him the upgrade for $ 1, 000.

16:42 He probably could have upgraded the wife and then left the kids and coach and been fine. That would have been the smartest play for him. Yes, I would love the upgrade. Can I bring her for that additional fee? Because at that point, you have to think to yourself, now this would require this guy to think ahead a few steps. We know he's in deep doo-doo. But in that moment, he could have saved himself. He could have said, yes, thank you for this upgrade. It's amazing. I would like to also have my wife with me.

17:22 And then you pay the upgrade. Because if you don't, when she is yelling and screaming at you or doing things later, making you pay for flying first class without her, you need to ask yourself, would I pay $ 1, 000 to make this stop? And if the answer is yes, then you pay for the upgrade. Oh, this isn't just a wham, bam, thank you, ma'am, one fight and it's over. Oh, no, this is going to go on for years. Oh, yeah, you are going to hear about this for years. I mean, and so much, like, even just if you get an Uber, she's like, oh, you don't want to sit in the front seat? Mm-hmm.

18:07 On your deathbed, together, holding hands like in the notebook or like that couple in Titanic, before you drift off to death, the sweet release of death, she's going to look at you and say, are you going to go first? Are you going to leave without me again? Oh, you didn't want that casket upgrade? And if you're smart, that's when you whisper back, I already got mine. It was free with a twofer purchase. Want more Treehouse? Check out our YouTube exclusive shows at youtube.com slash at Treehouse on air. Do you feel restless and anxious?

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19:43 It's free. And you can also get more info on their website anytime at cookdfw.com. Trey, you have the got something to say smirk. Oh, no, I was just, you know. I wonder if those tickets, you know, if like Daniel and Carrie got four and like they'll be sitting with the people that win them. That would make the experience so much better. It really would. That would actually, that would be a fun time because those two hanging out and yeah. Yeah. I'll mention that to him. I'll tell Daniel, hey, if there's another pair of tickets next to those, just saying. Yeah. Might be kind of fun. All right. If Daniel just, you know, but Carrie and Tito and. Yikes.

20:27 All right. Today is Tuesday. I'm sorry. Today is Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026. Let's celebrate today with some birthdays. I'm going to start with an extremely sad birthday, but I think it's important that we. But hang on, it is... You want to talk about a funny couple to think about this whole upgrade thing? Daniel and Carrie. Oh, we need to go back and talk about the story all over again and pretend it's Daniel and Carrie. That would be phenomenal. That whole plane would go down. Uh-huh. Not a single survivor, except for Carrie. Yeah. She will somehow float to Earth amidst the debris. All right.

21:11 I'm starting with a very sad birthday, but it's important that we recognize it. We certainly remember it. We just don't always think about it. Krista McAuliffe would have been 78 today. She deceased in 1986 because she was the teacher selected for NASA's Teacher in Space Project who died with the six other crew members. and the Challenger explosion. So many kids saw it at school on the TV cart that got rolled in. My dad kept me home from school. That was how big of a deal that Challenger launch was in 1986. My dad's like, no, you can stay home. We're going to watch it together on TV.

21:53 And I still remember laying on my stomach in front of the floor model TV, watching it take off, and then, what, a minute or so into it. 90 seconds. Yep. How long? I think it was like 90 seconds. Yeah. And then it just goes off in a number of pieces and I'm just like, uh, is it supposed to, I don't think it's supposed to do that. And I remember looking back at my dad and he was just like mouth agape, like, Oh my God. Yeah. Whole country stunned at the same exact moment. Um, and then as one standup comedian said, and then turned into a phenomenal internet meme, If you were in school that day, they pushed the TV cart back out into the hall, and they continued with the rest of the school day. And there were no grief counselors. There was no real discussion afterwards.

22:43 It was like, okay, everyone break out your big cheaps, and we're going to work on our arithmetic. No, one of the teachers from my elementary school was one of the finalists of that. And so she was absolutely... She knew. Yeah, it was. traumatic to say the least oh my god and yeah you didn't we didn't yeah there was no we're gonna get a day off or early release or grief counselors or anything yeah it was. They just push the tv cart out into the hall like with one hand because it's on wheels they just go yoink and then pull down the you know projector screen maybe or pull up the screen and then I grab a piece of chalk and it's like, okay, break out your math workbooks and open up to page 28 and here we go. Other birthdays today. So rest in peace, of course, to Krista McAuliffe. Also it was really, I think it's, we should also point this out. How much society changed from 1986 into the early 2000s when Columbia blew up over East Texas. So now I think when the Challenger blew up, I think most of the wreckage and everything fell into the ocean. But when Columbia blew up, it blew up over East Texas, basically. And East Texans were out there picking up. What's that?

24:11 And Louisiana. And Louisiana. Yeah. You know, you've got East Texans and Cajuns running around picking up pieces of it and trying to sell it on eBay. Oh, I think that would have happened in 86, too. I just again, it was. Didn't have the internet back then, so it would have been more like roadside. Yeah. Yeah. Well, even back in, I mean, you say that, but Columbia was 2003? Something like that, yeah. I mean, eBay, I mean, the internet is still, as far as like eBay and stuff, it's, eBay was rudimentary at that point. I don't, you know, it wasn't something everyone, It wasn't like today where you have a mobile app and on your phone and everything. I think that's probably one of the biggest things with technology is we forget we didn't have smartphones back then.

25:06 That's true. Yeah, by today's standards, not only would people be selling it online, they'd probably have it approved in the Amazon store and ironically being drone delivered to you within an hour. Well, I think if you go back and you remember, this is one of those things. If you wanted to sell something, you had to take pictures, you had to transfer said pictures from, if you had a digital camera onto your computer, if not, you had to get pictures developed, scan, put it in. I mean, it was, it was a process. That is true. Uh, Lennox Lewis is 61. This is a great lesson that I learned many, many years ago when he was the heavyweight champion of the world or right before he became that not to judge a book by its cover. because the first time I heard him speak, I was like, holy crap, he's British. Eric Dickerson is 66.

26:07 Hall of Fame running back who still holds the NFL single season rushing record. Eric Dickerson. Paved the way for today's college football. And some high school. When it comes to paying kids. Jimmy Connors is 74. Eight-time Grand Slam singles champion, former world number one, and he kind of paved the way for John McEnroe to be a crazy, maniacal tennis player because Jimmy Connors was pretty angry in his own right. They were the same period. They were the same period, but I thought Jimmy Connors came a little bit before. Either way, it's like, I remember like.

26:51 Listen, those two playing each other was high entertainment value. Because, yeah, Connors would just have temper tantrums where McEnroe would, you know, get on the judge. He would. But yeah, they were both threatening. They were angry. Yeah. Two very angry men on a tennis court. And you're right, because seeing a match between those two, you don't know if they're yelling at each other, yelling at the line judge, yelling at the umpire. They might be yelling at somebody in the damn stands. Yeah. But it was high entertainment. Terry Bradshaw. Speaking of high entertainment, Terry Bradshaw is 78 today. Four-time Super Bowl champion with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Long-time TV personality. Sometimes reality TV personality.

27:35 My father-in-law went to some business, like one of those speaking event things that he went to through his company. And Terry Bradshaw and a bunch of other guys were doing motivational talks. And he still talks about all the great stuff that Terry Bradshaw said that day. So, pretty interesting coming from a guy who in his playing days, everyone thought was a, like an idiot yokel, which is fascinating at the time to think about because his legacy definitely is not that. But at the time everyone thought he was just an idiot throwing a ball around. Well, I mean, I forget he come out of Louisiana or Mississippi. I think, I don't know.

28:17 I think that was one of those two. I believe you're right. I think it was Louisiana. Yeah. Uh, But, you know, there was no polishing. You know, they didn't have– they didn't get lessons in media in their college days. You know, they weren't covered that much. And, yeah, he came off as kind of a rube at times, but he was a damn good quarterback. Very, very good. And has parlayed that. You know, he's an excellent broadcaster. I don't know what his– I suspect Jimmy Johnson has fallen ill because you just don't see him anymore. Yeah, I don't know if it's if it's necessarily he's fallen ill, but I mean, he's always I think once they brought in Strahan and they almost literally wedged him into that set to make him fit. And then and then a few years later, Jimmy Johnson starts like less appearances, I feel like. And then occasionally he might be like staying in Florida doing some of it. You're right. Maybe, maybe it is.

29:22 I just, I don't think I'm out. I mean, when they started having, Strahan was actually been around for a long time. I, it's not, it's, I think when they started bringing in Gronkowski. Um, I think you're right. Yeah. But he still, you know, he talked for a while about how much he enjoyed it. And, you know, he flew his, he bought a jet and he'd stop in Dallas, pick up Terry Bradshaw because they were best friends. And, and, uh, you know, he said, you know, cause literally he would fly out there on Friday, come back Sunday night, basically. Um, it's good gig. Oh yeah. And he's back fishing Monday. Morning, but it's not only just not seeing him on the NFL on Fox. You just don't, he, I have not seen hide or just anything from him. And I would say over a year. Interesting.

30:15 Well, you know, NFL season starts in just a couple of weeks. So I'm going to be paying closer attention to that. He's I guess Jimmy's got to be mid eighties now. Is he that much older than Bradshaw? I mean, Bradshaw, like, today's his birthday, and he's 78. I think he's, I don't know. 83. Wow. Okay. I would have thought he would have been closer to, like, in the 70s as well. Okay. Speaking of football, especially on the college front, Mark Harmon is 75. Most people know him as an actor, but Trey and I are old enough to, well, remember that we were told that he played college football at UCLA. Best known as Gibbs from NCIS. For those that don't know, that show and his character, I believe, is a direct spinoff from his role as a Secret Service agent on the West Wing.

31:10 He was so good in the half season or whatever that he was on the West Wing that when he was killed in the season finale, it spun off into NCIS... happening someone saw the potential here and basically just took a version of that character plucked it into NCIS got Mark Harmon said here we go off to the races and now it's a multi-city franchise. Yeah he hadn't even been on there in five years I don't. Think yeah he's also from St. Elsewhere and Chicago hope so 75 years old Mark Harmon we have two massive birthdays to finish on going to start with Keanu Reeves Keanu Reeves also known as John Wick, is 62. Hang on, what do.

32:03 You think his more iconic role is, Neo or John Wick? Or is it Johnny Utah? Granted, that was only one film, but you're talking about a guy that has such a phenomenal resume. His filmography is pretty diverse when you think about it. I mean, A lot of people now see it as like John Wick, action star kind of a thing. But I mean, in Point Break, he plays this undercover FBI agent. And that movie still holds up. But he was also... Speed was one of the biggest movies of the 90s. And he avoided the Speed sequels, which was one of the smartest things for his career. The Matrix movies.

32:50 Bill and Ted. Jesus without the matrix. He's not, I don't think he's John wick. I would agree with that. The matrix changed his career entirely because he made so much stinking money on it and he made so much money on it that he used it to like give money to other people on the production crew from it. Well, but that was a different level of action star. Um, but, I mean the fact that he made it, not only it's one thing to have a successful movie when you have a successful franchise that, yeah, then, then you are bonafide. You are, you are in rare air at that point.

33:33 Uh, Bill and Ted, the first and the second one. I, I, I love both of those. I'm trying to, I'm, I'm still trying to forget the, the, the modern reboot thing. Uh, Quick Dolly Parton thing with Keanu Reeves. I saw this yesterday. You may not typically think they would be related, but apparently Keanu Reeves' mom was a costumer or designer. And the Playboy bunny outfit that Dolly Parton wore, she made it. So after Dolly was done with it, she still had it. Keanu Reeves' mom had it. And so he wore it for Halloween one year. That's not.

34:14 You know what? I'm not a cross-dresser at all, but I guess if you've got Dolly Parton's bunny outfit, Playboy bunny outfit in the closet, I guess you might be tempted. And then I saved the best birthday for last. This isn't fair to other 60-year-olds. Salma Hayek turned 60 today. You know who else was in their 60s? Aunt May from Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man movie. Remember how old she looked? Now, keep in mind, Salma Hayek is basically the same age. Also, keep in mind that current Aunt May from the current Spider-Man franchise is also in her 60s.

35:02 Keep in mind, all the Golden Girls were in their late 40s and 50s. Yeah. Yeah, that's... And I don't think she's had that much work done. Salma Hayek? Yeah. I don't think so either. Tons of films, obviously, but she made her breakthrough in a little film opposite Antonio Banderas called Desperado. And when her first appearance in it, she's walking down the street and behind her in her wake in this intersection is a multi-car accident because of all the guys watching her walk down the street. I don't know if I can think of a better introduction in a film that was so accurate because she could do that today. She could walk down a street and still cause a multi-car accident in an intersection. She's also the only time I've ever seen a snake in a movie and not been....

36:06 What movie was that? From Dusk Till Dawn when she comes out with the big, you know, the python over her shoulders and stuff. I've, I've never wanted tequila more. And apparently. That's what you think of. Well, no, I say that because, and apparently Quentin Tarantino felt the same way because that's when she poured tequila down her leg and he got to lick it off of her toes. And then partly establishing the whole Quentin Tarantino's really in defeat stuff so much. So I think that even, um, uh, When Maya Hawk did Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, she was one of the kids, one of the Manson kids. Maya Hawk was in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood done by Quentin Tarantino. And before she did the movie, her mom, Uma Thurman, who had worked with Quentin Tarantino on the Kill Bill project, said, just don't let him do anything with your feet.

37:17 And dad probably went to Quentin Tino and was like, hey, don't touch my daughter's feet. And clearly he respected it. This segment of the Treehouse is brought to you by our Patreon. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're a podcast that has a Patreon. But you know what? We'd like to make a little bit of cash on the side here. Go to patreon.com slash treehouse on air and choose from three subscription levels. Treehouse Plus, Super Plus, and Ultimate Treehouse. All three come with bonus episodes, video, and extra content. All there, patreon.com slash treehouse on air. And speaking of Ultimate Treehouse, we'd like to welcome Anne-Marie, who is a new Ultimate Treehouse subscriber. Yay! Welcome, Anne-Marie.

38:03 Thank you for joining Ultimate Treehouse. You now, Anne-Marie, will have access to our live stream each week, as we record our Thursday episodes on Wednesday. Get all the information, patreon.com slash treehouse on air. All right, before we leave the treehouse for today, I have a couple of robot stories to share with you. And, well, they are doozies. A man used a robot vacuum to catch his cheating wife. He won $ 16, 000 in an affair case, and then he went to jail for secretly filming her. That story has it all. inciting incident, stakes building, and then a dramatic conclusion.

38:47 Well, I mean, it's just... I think... I can't remember where this was. It was Taiwan, maybe. But... Yeah, he catches her cheating using the robot, because evidently the robot vacuum has camera and microphone. So he gets tipped off because he sees. A strange man like in their driveway. He says he was going to surprise the wife with something like pull the, so he was remote controlling the the robot vacuum and then wheels it out then uh she's naked uh with some guy and then so he he wins his like basically wins his divorce case then she counter sues him for illegally taping her and so i think he won sixteen thousand dollars but that cost him eleven thousand dollars and like five months in prison like.

39:50 Would you take that trade? No. Had it not cost him the $ 11, 000 in the legal fees and fines, like if he got $ 16, 000 for the divorce settlement, but then he also had to spend five months in jail, but you get $ 16, 000. Is that a trade-off you'd be willing to make? No. Yeah, I'm with you. Yeah, the husband's unusual evidence did win the case, but it led to a fine and five months behind bar. And you're right, this did happen in taiwan he won the legal battle against his wife by using footage from a robot vacuum to prove she was having an affair uh because he secretly filmed her he was fined 30 of the roughly 16 grand that he won and then sent us to five months in prison.

40:40 Whoops yeah at the end of the day she won she cheated she won that's bullshit. Yeah, she got the D down and rid of the man. Yeah. Now, this leads me into a very different robot situation being inserted into a relationship. Because a New York couple married for 25 years have made headlines because they have revealed a sex positive AI chat bot has revived their sex life. Faced with the exhausting aggregate pressures of daily life, including raising two kids, working two jobs each, and caring for aging parents, the couple found themselves too depleted to maintain physical intimacy. Instead of traditional couples therapy, they turned to a subscription-based AI intimacy support app. By using the chatbot together to explore fantasies and role-play scenarios, they unlocked new erotic potential and successfully brought the spark back into their human marriage. Congratulations.

41:57 I mean, I don't... You. Know, if. If I'm a therapist, AI has got to scare the crap out of me. There are two industries where I would be absolutely terrified. One would be graphic designer and the other is therapists. Yeah. Cause AI is wrecking though. I mean, AI is wrecking a lot of industries with certain things and certain capabilities, but those are two that people can in minutes have solutions or what they think are solutions. Uh, whereas, and, and doing it for 20 bucks a month, maybe for free.

42:43 Well, I mean, I think I said this app was somewhere between $ 25 and $ 50 a month, where a therapist is going to cost you $ 150 a week, probably, per session. And the thing about it is, what are the common complaints with therapy? Are they really trying to fix you, or are they just trying to milk you for all the money you're worth? Yeah. Yeah. Brandy was in therapy, and she said it was going great. And then, clearly, not so much. Then one day, she just wasn't there.

43:25 Yeah, then one day, she evidently had a bunch of problems again. Although, her therapist told her she was in a good place, like two weeks before. But an AI bot, it can summon all the. Psychological theories from Freud, Jung, all of them. Freud, Jung, everyone. And put it all into use. It has no bias or anything else. I would probably be more open to an AI therapist than I might be a human one. It would be an interesting experiment to do like an A-B test. Mm-hmm. and do both at the same time and then just see how you feel and see what sort of progress you think you're actually making, right? And honestly, I should do this because, I mean, I've got a therapist currently and it cost me $ 175 per session. And that stings. I don't care who you are. That's a lot of freaking money. Whereas Gary, my chat GPT feller, is 20 bucks a month. And he helps me with all sorts of stuff. He helps me with work stuff, random questions I have about things. He can help me with the schedule and maybe he can also help me with, uh, the mishmash that's going up in here in my brain. And, and you can do it in a very short amount of time. You can get, as a man, we love getting,

44:58 you know, how can I fix this thing? Right. And if you can get that in a matter of minutes, Oh yeah, that's real tempting. especially if you're saving money on top of it. I don't think, I don't even know if I would say the timeframe, but I do think it would be a fascinating thing to, you know, take two people and have one go a therapist and one go the route of AI and see, you know, take it three months later who felt like they were more improved and who was actually more improved. Yeah. Because on one hand, talking and getting those things out can feel good. But sometimes I can just, you know, maybe I just type that into my chat GPT, say what I'm feeling or whatever, and say what I'm thinking.

45:40 And then say, you know, can you give me a few things that I can do over the next week or two to combat these things? You're not like that. You don't have just a port that can plug in and just download everything? Eventually we'll get there. I just, you know, just right in there. Yeah, that actually would be really nice. A little jump drive, right? Yeah, I'm fine with that. But yeah, give me a few actionable steps that I can make to improve certain things and do it in 10 minutes and cost me 20 bucks a month versus however many hours over a month and hundreds of dollars. There's a lady we know whose kid, her daughter's in her 20s.

46:25 She had a long-term relationship and They were having issues in their relationship. So she started inputting some of those things into chat GPT and she ended up getting rid of her therapist, her human therapist and going with the actionable advice that she was getting from chat GPT and says she's never felt better. She dumped the loser boyfriend and she's in the feeling like the best she's ever felt in her life and for 20 bucks a month, which good on you. And you know what? That's obviously not going to work on everybody, but if it does, hell yeah, that's a hell of a life hack. I mean, I think the biggest problem for especially people our age would be putting it all down, defeating so much of it into chat GPT or whoever, whatever program you wanted to use, where it could really come up with accurate, actionable steps. Yeah.

47:24 As opposed to just constantly asking questions. Well, how does that make you feel? What do you think about that? Thankfully, I don't, I don't have a therapist like that. Like I, I look at, like when I'm in therapy, I sort of see it as like, okay, I'm going to spit some shit out, obviously. But I would like part of it to be a conversation. I need you to tell me some stuff, like explain it to me if it doesn't make sense to me or say, you know, challenge me on some stuff. I swear to God, if I ever did a therapy thing and all they did was ask it, how did that make you feel? And if, and every response that they gave was just asking another question, I would probably kill them. Which now that I'm thinking about it, I should probably write that down and talk to my therapist about it.

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