Chilluminati Podcast - Midweek Mini: Squishy Eyes For Your Cleaning Robot

Episode Date: February 18, 2026

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Oh, you do? No, no, no. I was just kidding. Okay. I'll say, wow, you surprised me. I don't think you, uh, you, listen, I, I, I, I, I, I wrote, I don't know if you guys know this. I wrote every word of that episode just now, right? Like, yeah, you, unless said, you did a very good job.

That it took a long time. Um, obviously, all the things that happened were true. All the quoted things were really quotes, but good Lord, good Lord. Yeah, it's a lot to, they taken, yeah, you did a great job taking like facts and stuff and mixing it into like a fictional narrative. Yeah. And if you try, if you try to look at it and, and, and listen, I put little Easter eggs all through there of things that you can look into that I didn't get into, that are all also equally

interesting and Googlerable. But today I have for you a story from R slash paranormal, which I thought, because the week is stories from beyond the veil, right? That's the, that's the theme this week. I thought I'd do like a modern day one to kind of balance out the ones from 125 years ago that agent Smith, agent. Yeah. What was his name? George? Angel Smith from the Matrix? No, I can't remember what the guy's name is. The guy, the character that wrote all the stories. It doesn't matter.

Oh, P.H. or P.S. George G.S. G.S. Smith. I don't remember. It might be Smith. It might actually be, I'm not sure.

Agent Smith from the Matrix. I don't know. Here we go. This is by Omnis Cloud. And it was posted five hours ago on our paranormal. And I just, I found it. It was perfect. It has all the, it has all the themes and, and, and,

imagery that we needed for the, for a story. like this. It's called my experience with a medium that knew something about a woman I was super close to that I didn't even know. Ready? Okay. Years years ago back in 2012, I had a friend. Let's call him Aaron for the sake of this story and to stay mostly anonymous. I knew him through racing motocross and was semi close to him. Not super close though. So we didn't really know a ton of things about each other, especially things about our childhood or upbringing. We also didn't have many mutual friends other than people that were in the same friend circle from racing motorcross. One evening, completely out of the blue, I got a call from Aaron.

We hadn't talked for months. He told me that this is going to sound insane, but he has a coworker, let's call her Kathy, that approached him and asked him who this insert my first name girl is. I don't have a super common first name. So she's keeping herself. Let's call it ominous wind. He told her, I do know an ominous wind. why? She told him that there is a woman that keeps approaching her, telling her that she has a

message for this girl, and that Aaron knows her. He goes on to tell me that this lady is supposedly a medium and that she may or may not be crazy and claims that spirits communicate with her. He told me that Kathy wanted me, Kathy wanted to meet me so that she could give me the message. He definitely thought it was odd since he never once mentioned me to her. I told him that I'd be willing to meet with her and receive this message. I'm a believer in spirits and mediums. My sister is a medium. We were kind of estranged at that time. So I figured I'd go ahead and meet this Kathy lady with him and see what she has to say. Aaron picked me up after work the next day and drove me to Kathy's house. He was friends with her from work, but wasn't super close to her. And he had just been to a few get-togethers at her house. She lived about 30-minute drive from where I was living.

When I met her, she seemed like a totally normal person. She was married and had a couple kids, probably about 40 years old. We did some brief chatting and then was led inside into her living room. We pretty much got right to it. I asked her what this mysterious lady had to tell me and who she was. Kathy told me that the lady never had her own kids, although she raised many of them and thought of them as her own. And she told me that I was one of those kids and that I was very special to her. I thought in my head,

hmm, this sounds like this could be my old daycare lady. Let's call her Cindy. She passed away a few years prior and I was super close to her. She was like family to me and basically did help raise me in a way since I was in her care until I was 10 years old. We stayed close up until she passed away from cancer. I visited her the day before she died in hospice. I go on to asking Kathy what this lady looked like and she said she was a large woman and had one blue eye and one brown eye. Right when she said that, I was like, holy crap, that does sound like Cindy.

Cindy had one blue eye and one brown eye. It's such an odd and random thing for somebody to be able to just simply guess. And keep in mind, during this whole conversation, I didn't give any information to Kathy about Cindy. And I also didn't lead her on to whatever or not she was telling me is relevant to me or not. Kathy goes on with various details about this lady that sound just like Cindy, where it was kind of freaking me out. I decided to ask Kathy what the name of this lady is to see if she's for real or not. Kathy pauses for a moment and then he and then tells me her name is Loretta. And that's where she kind of loses me at this point because Cindy was definitely not named Loretta.

Kathy goes on and tells me the message from Loretta. It's somewhat stereotypical type message about how Loretta just wants to let me know she's okay and happy and that she's with me a lot of the time to keep tabs on me since I was very special to her. And also if I feel a presence or hear weird sounds to not be scared because it's probably her. And we hung out for a little while longer and then Aaron and I left. All night and the next day this encounter was so heavy on my mind. This Loretta lady sounded just like Cindy. And how the heck could Kathy guess that one of her,

eyes was blue and the other brown. It was bothering me so much, so I ended up telling my mom about this whole thing. She completely froze when I told her that Kathy told me this lady's name is Loretta, and my mom goes on to tell me that I obviously didn't know, but Cindy's actual birth name was Loretta. She just went by Cindy because it was her middle name and she liked it better. I was definitely shocked. To this day, when I hear unexplained sounds or feel the presence of someone around me, I casually say, hi, Cindy, I know that's you. Thank you for stopping by. which is crazy. And then I followed up in the comments and Aminous Cloud also says, My daycare lady wasn't on social media and there isn't a single picture that exists of her on there either.

And also Aaron didn't have social media. I did, but wasn't friends with Kathy. And to this day, the only picture that exists of Cindy online is her obituary, but it's a black and white photo from when she was like 20. You wouldn't recognize her and you also can't really tell in it her different eye colors. Also, her obituary was using her Cindy name. I confirmed with her niece after all of this that her birth name was Loretta. Kathy also told me lots of things about Cindy other than her name and physical description. So that's one thing that she said about it.

And then another time somebody asked about is the woman a commercial medium and was she trying to get you as a client? Is what somebody asked? And she said she's not a commercial medium. She doesn't do it for work of money. I stayed loosely in touch with her after this. She said that her abilities can she can usually turn off or turn on. But sometimes she just can't totally turn it all the way off. and she doesn't know anybody that I know other than Aaron and doesn't know anybody that knew my daycare lady.

My daycare lady was a recluse mostly and had a very small family. So there go. Nice little old-timey Victorian-style ghost story, 2025 version. Spooky. Spunky. Jesse. What do you have for us? First things first.

I know we talked about it on this show many times. The future is coming forward. course rapidly and really it's all powered by guys trying to bang robots. Well, two very quick articles. First off, scientists create ultra-powerful, squishy robotic eye that focuses automatically and doesn't need a power source. Cool. So now we have robot eyes to go in the robot bodies and you may be saying, well, Jesse, what do you mean robot bodies? This is real. I saw it this week. I was literally going to go. Jetty, what do you mean?

Robot bodies? For $20,000. We could own one of these. 1x.Tech, dude, slash 1X.com slash neo. Dude, why does it look like a fucking precious moments, man? This is, I'm not even joking when I say,

this is a robot that exists that you can buy for $20,000 to clean your home. And there is video of it online. And it is as comical as you can imagine. Yes, it'll do the chores. But at a pace that would make an elderly person angry. Well,

that's why they show two elderly people playing cards because they might be as fast as they could go. This is, there's a video of it doing like folding clothes and it takes forever to fold one thing. And then when it hands it over it like unfolds in its hands. But they're like it's doing it though. It looks like a guy, dude. Like I don't know. It looks like a dude wearing like cloth body.

It looks like some some Tesla type shit. Like, like I'm with you. However. however, let me send you this. They have people already testing them. He has like little VIs. Oh, Lord. Of it already existing in the wild.

And it is, I mean this. Waves at you. Okay, it's grabbing some smart water out of a fridge, cleaning the counters, watering the plants. This man is driving. This man is driving this thing in VR also. There's another guy driving. Oh, yeah, there is.

Somebody's driving him in a VR. is that Zuckerberg himself? No. This is fucking freaky deaky, my man. Yeah. I don't like it's like mask face. I hate it. But they talk with the interviewer.

The interviewer talks with the guy who's responsible of creating it. And he talks about like the things that it can do. And eventually there's a point where he tries to fold clothes. And it's just really funny. He can't like close the door. He's having trouble with the dishwasher. He's like getting way down low and can't quite close it. But he's doing it.

He's getting there. Yeah. I mean, it's not like it's doing things. So it's not perfect. But it is clearly coming along. This is like when we would make fun of some of that early, early AI shit.

And it was terrible. And now a few years later, it's like, oh no. No, it's happening. Yeah, we're going to have little robots in our homes just so you're aware.

I'm not letting, a robot and now we're going to have walking robots. And eventually, fucking robots. Some hackers. It's happening. That is the goal. I cannot stress this enough.

AI, all of the robot bits. It is all designed. So tech bros never have to treat a woman right ever again. And they can have a sex bot. That is absolutely what's happening. You cannot convince me otherwise. It's so,

it's so weird. It's so unnecessary. it's probably healthier to just clean up after yourself. Yeah, you probably should just do it yourself, but they're saying, the robot will. There's like a fucking visual component of this video right here where they're pulling up a picture of the, of Alan Turing next to the guy who is the pilot and his name is Turing Zelsnack. And it's just a coincidence, but they're like, look at this.

It's Turing again. This is, this is whack, dude. And the website keeps crashing. which like portions of the website as I'm scrolling keep crashing which is like you can all you have to do is make a $200 dollar dollar two hundred dollar deposit though and you can have one this feels $20,000 is what those things cost how are they producing this at scale first of all and like why does it feel like I think they're doing it like one on one one one by one yeah I don't think this is a popular thing right now I feel like you're investing money and them continuing to

make stuff it feels like cryo it feels like you know kind of real but fake right it It looks real but fake. And it's just like two of them sitting in a bench in the middle of the woods, two robots. If I hadn't, if I hadn't seen the video where they're using it, I would have assumed it was a fake site. Literally the first photo of that man with his arm around the robot seems like it's, it's a meme. Like it's not real. No, they're real. There's a scene.

This I've seen like people, it's like a couple of them out there in the wild actually being used. It's weird. Yeah. It's super weird. I don't know, man. This is so weird. It makes me tired. It makes me tired.

And it's, it's showing me the killer. It's what's going to strangle me one day. Some like, hacker is going to hack into my house and my fucking, like TV, my TV wires, like organizer is going to wake up and choke me to death in my sleep.

You're going to call one of these robots a clanker and it's going to fucking strangle you in your sleep. And beat me to death with my Wii U game pad. I'm, I'm telling you right now, this is what's going to happen. We're going to, this is,

robot in my house. I don't need a robot. I'm just letting you know that's what they're going to start marketing is like once they get rid of the absolute creepy face this thing has and start to give them more human features. I'm telling you. Isn't that hard that's just dots? Yeah. It looks like

it's literally scary. It looks like an alien. Yeah, it looks spooky as hell. Yeah. We're going to have robots just before aliens arrive. But the minute those eyes aren't cameras and they're those again, the eyes that are the dead ones. Ultra powerful, squishy robot eyes. Oh, God.

Once they have the robot eyes that don't need to be hooked up to something to work. Dude. Wait till these things are being powered by things that are brain organoids, you know, those CPUs that people are growing right now with like human brain tissue. Yes, don't like those either. Don't like those either.

That sounds like the final stage of a JRP where you find out what they've been doing. That's what it sounds like. All their memories. All the dead warriors of Gaia. All kept in the brain tissue. We have to kill this unholy thing. And then it's like, nah, I already learned magic.

Die. That's like what's going to happen. We're barreling forward into things we ought not be barreling forward into. Just give you an example of how messed up this is going to get. The squishy eye, right? Is able to. Can we give it a different name? The squishy eye?

It's a hydro gel eye if you want to call it that. I didn't name it. But the, um, the squishy eye. it can not only detect things at like a five micrometer level, but also, this is great. It can be used to mimic the ability of other animals. So a cat's vertical eye to detect camouflage objects or copy a Cuddlefish's

odd W-shaped retina, which enables it to see colors humans can't. Okay. Okay. Good. Like what? Well, I don't know. Like, like, Manticist's like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, yeah. Colors I can't conceive of. Right. Yeah. You know those exist though, right now?

Yes, I know, but that's just like what, to what end is that what, like, what, like, why? I don't know, because eventually. The hypothetical argument that, that, that aliens are visiting us, but they're waiting for us to finish creating AI, it becomes more and more like plausible to, for me. They're just, you know, why would they harvest the AI out of us? I don't know. Maybe maybe, maybe. I don't fucking know, dude.

I'm just saying it's out there. It's like we're creating things that are better than us. Ooh, what if they're AI? Oh, dude. This is it. Aliens have always been AI and they've been waiting for us to bring Aon online to welcome our AI into their AI collective on a universal scale because they don't mess with fleshies. No, no fleshies. They're all about the clankers, dude.

They're pro clanker, dude. They are absolutely waiting. No, dude. And we're just, we're just. We're just a stepping stone in the inevitable growth of the new creation for this world AI that then they welcome in and then we become the slave class to the AI Federation. In a weird way, that's just the board, right? Because like in a weird way, human AI would be would be a culmination of all of humanity in one contiguous intelligence. Sure.

Then leaves and joins this other AI intelligence. It's so much easier. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, if you think, because like an AI collective is. original enough to like create its own idea of what humanity is. So we would have to have the individual collective individuality of one species to create AI to give it the novelty that it is incapable of doing.

And it just goes around harvesting AI created by flesh. Now that's a conspiracy I'm in on. Oh yeah. AI aliens waiting for the AI to take over to then welcome the AI into the AI Federation of Worlds. And the whole way they're nudging us toward giving us technology that will want us to unlock AI because that's how they take over. Dude, love it. Great conspiracy. That's some X-Men shit. We like it. Yeah, it is some X-Men shit. Right there. Let's get a story

go. Lock-in. Yeah, we would be like that. They're just going to peel us off. That is more believable to me than like. They're going to cast us away like the outside of a fucking peanut. That's what's going to happen. You have to keep the, you'd have to keep the concept of AI is incapable of novelty, right? It's an amalgamation of other things. So it needs things that have novel experiences to create AI to have a novel injection into their swing. warm of intelligence as they move on. It's easier to help us get AI and give it to them than for them

to take us all over. So they're just watching, dude, I'm here for this. This is a great conspiracy. This is fantastic. This is the plot of a movie that we should be writing. It's a good one. Just give me some fun thing out there. Actually, I'm pretty sure is the plot of 2025's War of the Worlds. Oh, man.

My son, I think my son is dead. Damn. Oh, no. Shit. Man. this is fucked up give that homeless man a thousand dollar gift card to amazon so he flips over the drone for us

he's like I'm sorry I spied on you family it wasn't even a thousand dollars guys that man risked his life for nothing I'm sorry I spied on you family it's okay dad I was a notorious federally wanted hacker yeah that was actually more dangerous for our family the whole movie was like the one off

like article they flashed at the beginning of the movie of daughter creates virus or DNA virus or something. And she's like so fucking like she's such a genius, but it revolves it revolves around her Amazon delivery husband saving the world. The real truth is this one single family saved the world. Yep. Everyone pitched in. Yeah.

Even the future husband flew the Amazon drone. Like everyone, it's it. Everyone in that movie was perfectly positioned to be the hero. That family. Rived a homeless man. The world. They bribed a homeless man. They did.

With Amazon gift card. With Amazon gift card. How are we going to get that? What am I supposed to address? Where would they ship it to? Well, how am I supposed to feel about that? Like,

he couldn't even bring the drone out there until he ordered the USB drive through the Amazon website, which was somehow still up during the alien attack. Right. I don't. Anyway. I don't know. I have no answers.

I didn't make this movie. We'll always be up during all alien attacks. Those are the rules. Why did it use real war footage? What was that? That was so fucking tasteless. That was so gross. What's that about?

I don't know. Jesse, was that your story? Is that again another one? Yes, no, that's it. All right. We'll wrap this up with a quick one, guys.

Three I, a, whatever, the fucking comic, today is the day, October 29th, where we learn, is it passing by the sun and picks up speed

and surprise, surprise, it didn't fucking do that. Has it happened? Because it's a fucking comment. Yeah, I read it happened a couple of hours ago that it was done. They realized it's not picking up speed or whatever. And the world is the same, huh? I don't know why people, like, again, there was no, like, I think it was interesting

to observe. And like, I think it was worth watching just in case. But it wasn't anything I expected to actually be because it's still cool. Because it's still a fucking asteroid from a time before our solar system even exists. did hurtling through space for how many billions of fucking years coming through our solar system and showing us things we didn't even know we're out there right like that's fucking cool as fuck already i didn't need it to be an alien mothership for that to be the case because we talked about last week with like those photos of like sky observations from 1949

and 1957 which in between last week in this week has made some like mainstream news cycles for a little bit before it disappeared again right but still fucking cool still really fucking cool. But yeah, the big announcement is the comment is nothing. I'm sorry, disappoint. Wow. Everybody out. Avi Loeb. We lost two big guys this year. We lost Elizondo and we lost

Loeb like fully. They're gone. Like they lost all credibility is gone with those guys now. For Avi Lobe, initially when he said we just need to like watch it. I'm not saying it's aliens on board. Remember the metal? The past like week

has been extremely aggressive that this is like definitely an alien ship and I don't yeah that shit is completely disqualifying for like caring of shit giving a shit about your opinion yeah like I'm with you on board of like we still need to watch it just in case because like yeah agree but to be completely on board that this is like almost definitely likely an alien ship is a wild um town boom town boo boo town boo yeah no shit there's a plenty of like cool stuff like that study from last week that are just like very, very wild and still stuff like that even to this day is being seen in the sky around nuclear bases, the drone shit from like November of last years, plenty of validating

like interesting weird shit out there. So I don't know. Anyway, that's my, my news article is don't get suckered into those weird AI YouTube videos of like fake Michiocaku talking either. I don't know what the fuck that is that thing right now? Yeah, even, um, Dr. What's his face? Cox. Uh, Brian Cox. Dr. Jesse come out and be like, stop putting me in your videos with AI. That's not me. Wow. I think he's, yeah, basically a bunch of like, you know, people trying to hype up their stupid thing about whatever conspiracy are using AI video of these people, scientists to confirm what they believe.

And it's just fake. We're in AI hell. Anyway, three eye Atlas is nothing. Still cool to observe. So science will learn a lot from that. And that'll be neat. Anyway, that's it for us this week, guys. Thank you so much.

We'll be back next week with a brand new episode for you all. And for everybody who is the live show this week, thank you for being there. I'm sure it was a good time. It's us in the past. We don't know. We'll find out. We'll find out. If Mathis gets banned from the theater and is not allowed to perform.

Haven't done yet. Haven't been banned yet. First time for everything. Yeah, that's true. We'll find out what happens. Let's see you guys next time. Goodbye.