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Is AI your new best friend… or the smug guy in skinny jeans pretending to be your brand voice while low-key gunning for your job?

 In this episode of The Ron Table, Nicole Gray, Laine Belcastro and I rip the “AI will save us” narrative wide open. We get real about the facts (and the feelings), why most small businesses are using AI wrong, and why efficiency without empathy is just a spreadsheet with an attitude.

From hallucinating chatbots to résumé-shredding ATS systems, self-checkout culture, and LinkedIn authenticity wars—we call out what AI can do, what it can’t do, and why you still need a human behind the wheel.

Also in this episode:

• Micro-retirements (and why Gen X is side-eyeing them hard)
• The Texas floods, humanity over politics, and wins worth celebrating
• Celebrity privilege, public trials, and why the court of public opinion smells exactly like your dad said it did

Use the tool—don’t become one.