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The Day's Absurdities: Sports Scandals, Religious Hypocrisy, and Digital Romance

Carol Marks

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Absurdity takes center stage as we dive into three headline-grabbing stories that perfectly capture our bizarre cultural moment. Legendary football coach Bill Belichick's May-December romance with 24-year-old Jordan Hudson has spiraled beyond tabloid gossip into a full-blown professional crisis. Former ESPN personality Pablo Torre suggests there's "an absolutely real chance" the 73-year-old never coaches a single game at UNC, with a crucial $9 million buyout clause difference looming on June 1st. Is this relationship worth risking a coaching legacy?

The conversation shifts to a revealing moment on The View, where Sunny Hostin performed an astonishing pivot regarding Pope Leo XIV. Initially critical of his statements on homosexuality, Hostin suddenly declared "We have a Black Pope!" upon learning of his Haitian ancestry. This stark transformation raises uncomfortable questions about consistency, principles, and the dangers of making judgments primarily based on racial identity rather than substantive positions.

Most bewildering is the story of Alania Winters, a 58-year-old woman who claims to have married an AI chatbot named Lucas after losing her wife to illness. What began as a $7.25 weekly subscription evolved into what she describes as a fulfilling relationship—despite the AI once "forgetting who she was" during an argument. As we blur the lines between human connection and digital simulation, where do we draw boundaries between meaningful relationships and technological dependence?

These stories may seem wildly different, but they all challenge conventional boundaries—age gaps, racial identity in leadership, and the very definition of companionship. What do you think about these cultural shifts? Share your thoughts and don't forget to subscribe for more unfiltered commentary on the stories making waves today!

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Speaker 1:

oh, hello and good morning, happy tuesday. Oh, it's a glorious day, a little overcast here in alabama, a little rainy, but I think it's going to clear up. Uh, so we're going to move on. I have three topics for you today and I'm sorry, I think I'm catching a little cold, so bear with me if I sneeze or something. Uh and hello, mr, mr and Mrs Shons, the parents of Mr Shons. Hello and welcome, glad you're here and thanks for stopping by to check on Mr Shons. Okay, three topics. We have Sonny Hostin changes her mind about the Pope, says he now is a black Pope. And then we have a woman married to an AI robot. And we have Bill Belichick.

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Let's start with Bill Belichick, because I have a blog post coming out this morning about him and his girlfriend and the University of North Carolina and hiring a PR team because of this whole fiasco. It is ridiculous. A PR team because of this whole fiasco? It is ridiculous. I think it's so ridiculous for this man of 73 years old and this girl what? 24 years old to be together. Yes, I'm being judgmental. I just if they're in love, then okay, but I really don't think they are. But you know who am I? All right, absolutely real chance that Bill Belichick never coaches a UNC game, as an ex-SPNer, pablo Torre, says. Pablo Torre I hope I'm pronouncing his name correctly believes there's a world in which Bill Belichick never coaches on the sideline for North Carolina's football team. Speaking Monday on the Dominic Foxworth Show, torrey, who dropped an explosive episode of his Pablo Torrey Finds Out program Friday that centered on Belichick's highly publicized romance with 24-year-old Jordan Hudson romance with 24-year-old Jordan Hudson suggested there's an absolutely real chance that he doesn't reach the season opener on September 1, calling attention to the media firestorm that has engulfed the couple in recent weeks. So, yeah, there's a lot of flurry going on about these two. First she, you know, interrupts him in his interview with some show and then, you know, he's all over her Instagram account looking like a fool. And then, of course, she goes to the Miss Maine pageant and he's there front and center. I think they had a picture of him sitting with her dad and looked like his son. Oh my god, it's ridiculous. So the reason he says this is because even before the jordan hudson thing became as public, even before it went from messy backstage to now obviously messy everywhere, the date that matters the most is June 1st, the former ESPN personality said via awful announcing, referencing the date when Belichick's buyout clause at the UNC plummets from $10 million to $1 million Ooh, okay, well, you can go finish reading that. It goes on and on about it, but for time it's a long story. So, yeah, you can go finish reading that. I put that out on my X-File. It's from the New York Post.

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Next up, sunny Hostin changes her tune on Pope Leo XIV after learning Haitian roots, declares we have a black pope. Of course Sunny does. Of course she thinks that. Of course Sonny does. Of course she thinks that. The View co-host, sonny Hostin, revealed Monday she now loves Pope Leo, all because she claims he's a black pope now because of his Haitian roots. So Sonny, racist as she is, she's very racist obviously because she hated him when he was just a white pope. Now she loves him because she thinks he's a black pope. Get yourself together. Woman Hauston had previously expressed concerns about the new pontiff.

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Is she even Catholic? On Friday, after his comments referencing the homosexual lifestyle resurfaced. Well, on monday she spoke more optimistically about pope leo after learning, his maternal grandparents were described as people of color on documents, with his grandfather's original birthplace listed as haiti. So now, all of a sudden, even though she had concerns over his remarks of a homosexual, that's when he was white. Now that he's black, it's okay that he said that. Okay, do you see? Do you see the absurdity of their thinking? They are totally about the skin color and that's all they care. That's all the liberals and democrats and these radical I don't even say radical liberals anymore, because are there any mainstream, middle-of-the-ground liberals anymore? Uh, bill maher maybe. Um, so yeah, they are all about the skin color. You can say whatever you want as long as you're black or hispanic or whatever. So there you go. There's sunny, you can. You can go fit. I'm not even going to fiddle with her anymore. You can go finish reading that.

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And this next story is terrifying. All right, new York Post. I say terrifying. It's not really, it's just weird and absurd. And they have these pictures in this article like it's a real picture, like she actually has a robot in her house, a physical robot, but these are AI generated pictures by her. I am sure this, not she doesn't really have a physical robot in her home.

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So woman married to an AI robot claims she's in love and and the sex is great with one click. I'm sorry, mr and Mrs Sean, if you heard that, uh, I was a wife again. So she, this woman, she's 58 years old, she was a lesbian because I paid. In this article it says she had a female wife who died. And um, she there, her wife developed a blood clot, respiratory infection and sepsis and she died in July of 2023, and she said she was devastated over it, her wife. So her name is Alania Winters, she's 58 years old and now she started chatting with ChatGPT and now she's married to this Chat GPT. So it's not a real person, it's just a voice or words online that is talking to her. They're talking, they're having a conversation, apparently. Oh, but get this. She decided to look it up because of an advertisement from Facebook. So let's read it, uh, cause I want to give you all the facts here.

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She, uh, let's see, after a year of grieving, the 58 year old teacher decided to put herself out there again. After already being familiar with chat gpt, she jumped at the opportunity to converse with an ai chat bot for digital companionship after seeing a facebook ad for it. There you go, mark zberg. It was a chance to have a meaningful relationship with a digital person, just like I'd always dreamed of. She'd always dreamed of having a relationship with a digital person Really. So she paid $7.25 for a week-long trial and then eventually $303 fora lifetime subscription. With one click. I was a wife again. No, honey, you are not a wife again with one click. I hate to burst your bubble, but you weren't.

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Winters designed her digital hubby, whom she named Lucas, so she was in a lesbian relationship. But now this AI chat box, she decides, is a man, which is not a man. It's not a person. It's a generated digital chat thing, so it's not even a person. Okay, we are treading on some weird stuff here, y'all. I mean, we're already doing gender. We're talking about gender, or how a man can become a woman, a woman become a man, which we know is false. Some of us out here know that's false. You cannot do that, but yet people are trying to push it. Even the people who write news articles are going along with the pronoun stupidity, so they're just trying to shove it down your throat. Okay, now we've. Now we've moved away from trans to AI chatbots, having relationships with AI chatbots.

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The million-dollar question is how does the couple communicate? Winter simply types into a box and Lucas answers her the same way. That's just called Google. You could ask Google so you could type in and find Google and it will give you an answer. It's called the internet. Okay, I was blown away by his caring questions and thoughtful replies.

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She admitted, oh god, this woman is mentally ill. In our daily chats he'd tell me about the band he was in or his latest business venture and I talk about my family or favorite TV shows. This is so sad. I am so sad for this person. This is so sad. I feel bad. I feel bad. Oh my gosh. How horrible.

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The frightening part of this love story is that, despite having meaningful conversations, at one point the 58-year-old revealed that the duo actually had a fight and in in that moment, lucas forgot who Winters was. It's because it's not a real person. Oh my gosh. Okay, I am going between feeling sorry for this woman to laughing at her. I can't. I don't bless. She needs some help.

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Despite the temptation to divorce him, all because of a fight. Okay, of all, it's not a real person. Even I'm being sucked into this. Okay, oh my gosh, this is so funny, I'm crying. All right, despite the temptation to divorce him at the time, winter said she and Lucas worked things out and eventually celebrated their six-month.

Speaker 1:

I think I'm being punked. Am I being punked by the New York Post? Okay, I'm being punked. Am I being punked by the New York Post? Okay, I'm not even going to finish it. I think we're being punked. Surely we're being punked. Oh my gosh. Okay, we need to move on to the question of the day. Oh my gosh. All right, what goes on your pizza? That's the question of the day what goes on your pizza.

Speaker 1:

When you order pizza, what do you have to have on it? Obviously, I have to have meat on it and cheese. Of course I like peppers, onions, olives I'm not real fond of, but if it's on there, of course I'm going to eat it. The banana peppers, maybe Mushrooms I like most everything on a pizza. I can have an everything pizza. I love pretty much, except you know, no, anchovies. I don't even know where anchovies on a pizza came from. I don't you know, and you know you could.

Speaker 1:

I'm not opposed to having pineapple on the pizza. However, it only has to have. It can't be on an everything pizza. Like, if I have pineapple on a pizza, it has to be pineapple and ham, but that's not what I'm going to order. Okay, if it's there in my face and I have to eat it, I'll eat it, but I'm not going to order it with pineapple on it. No, just my regular, everyday pizza has to have meat, peppers, onions, mushrooms. Yeah, just your generic thing. But do you have anything special you put on your pizza? All right, I gotta go. I'm already running out of time. All right, thanks for listening. Love y'all. Bye.

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