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Salamanca's Robot Sex-Doll Teacher, Chinese Peptides, and Closing Thoughts
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The episode's final news story is its most surreal: Salamanca City Central School District in New York is deploying an AI robot named Sally as a classroom tutor, manufactured by Realbotics — a company that rebranded from Tokens.com after acquiring hyper-realistic sex doll maker RealDoll in 2024. Leo shows the picture and the panel's stunned reactions provide the comedic finale. Harper quips that Sally is what he'll look like 'once I get on all the peptides,' launching a brief tangent about Chinese research peptides in Silicon Valley. Alex Wilhelm, who just had his third child, closes on a more serious note: he's changing his long-term financial strategy to backstop his children against an AI-disrupted labor market. Harper quotes a John Quincy Adams line about warriors, merchants, and poets — and the show closes with gratitude.
Moses Brown School in Providence now costs $46K–$52K per year, a figure that exceeds what Leo Laporte paid for college and exemplifies how unaffordable education has become.
