Smartphones, AI Jesus, and TikTok in Politics – Filtered with TJ Walker

Smartphones may be damaging our brains faster than ever. Teens turn avoiding phone calls into new digital politeness. AI Jesus. Chatbots chase clicks while shaping faith online. Cuomo and Mamdani trade punches over our rent stabilized apartment. And a Democrat wins Trump country with viral TikTok Broccoli politics. Hello and welcome to Filtered with TJ Walker. Hi and welcome. I'm TJ Walker. Thanks for joining me. We're going to look at the top stories of the day as we always do. Top business, technology and culture stories, all filtered through the lens of communication skills, with the goal of improving your personal success and professional success. That's what we're about right here. According to a new analysis by the Financial Times, smartphones are wrecking our brains at a speed that should terrify us. Using data from the Understanding America study, researchers found that conscientiousness, the personality trait most closely tied to responsibility, self control and follow through, has collapsed Among Americans age 16 to 39 in less than a decade. Once near the national average, young adults now score around the 30th percentile. The Financial Times says the likely culprits are hyper engaging digital media like smartphones, you know, this thing. And streamlining platforms, streaming platforms which keep people endlessly scrolling instead of making and keeping plans. Older adults who are less tethered to their phones, although not by much, sometimes showed almost no change. But among younger generations, the decline is steep. And it's not just about tension spans. The study found measurable drops in trust and extroversion with face to face interaction giving way to online engagement. Ghosting and flaking on commitments are now common. The big takeaway? In barely a decade, smartphones have rewired society's mental habits. But unlike the printing press, this transformation appears to be eroding our ability to focus, connect and follow through. Okay, so what's the real message here? This isn't going to make me popular. But if you're a parent and you Let someone under 10, 11, 12, 13, 13, 14, 15 have unbridled access to this, a cell phone, you are guilty of child abuse. You're no different than telling your kid, here, take as much cocaine as you want. Here, have as much heroin as you want. You are rewiring their brains to destroy their ability to think, to relate to human beings. And it ought to be a crime. I'm not kidding about that. Okay, so let's dig a little deeper. I understand that it's tempting. As a parent, I face that pressure, too. You want to make your kids happy. Okay, I get it. But you know, if you just do whatever your kids want to make them happy, you're going to give them nothing but candy and nothing but TikTok videos. Junior wants to stay home and not go to school, okay, Eat candy and watch cartoons on TikTok all day long. Would you really suggest that that's the best thing to do? I hope not. That would be an absurdity in most people's mind. But that's the logical conclusion. And I see it not just with cell phones, but with parents who say, well, my child only eats chicken fingers and pasta. Gets what? There's no nutritional value in chicken fingers and pasta. Look, parenting is not easy. I understand that. I'm a parent. And you want your kids to be happy. You want your kids to like you as well. But this thing is doing extraordinarily damaging things. Let's take a look at again the the findings from this study published by the Financial Times. Way, way down in young people's abilities to concentrate. Now it's hitting 16 to 39 year olds, but that is because in part, these 16 year olds have been on their cell phone and the 20 year olds were on their cell phones 10 years ago. People aren't trusting people as much anymore. Now you could argue that's because of other factors, but looking at social media all day long, there's nothing better than that than destroying your trust. Because all you do is hear about someone who's done something so crazy, so wild, so extremist. These people are idiots. Society is melting down. That's the perception you get if you doom scroll all the time. That's a huge, huge problem. The study talks about the rise of ghosting and dropping plans. Look, there have always been rude people, okay? There have always been people who ghost someone, even though it wasn't called that when I was a kid. But yes, I do believe there was a time when someone asked you for plans and you were busy, you had better plans, you just didn't want to. You would respond, you would call them back, maybe email them back. Thanks for the invite. I have other plans. Now it's just swipe white right delete. It's as if the person never existed. This is destroying trust. It's this concept of destroying extroversion. That's a fancy way of saying people are becoming hermits, hunched over and not talking to other human beings. And it's especially fearful. I see it with young people. I know it's especially bad for people who are in the optimum years of making new friends. If it's too scary to meet a new person, then you're never going to have friends, and you're going to grow up lonely. And we've now seen, according to a former United States Surgeon General, loneliness is a leading cause of death. So, yeah, too much time here is going to put you in a casket much sooner. And that is something we should all be very, very worried about. Now, how do we solve this problem? If you are over the age of 39 and you are a parent and you are concerned, the first thing you can do is put your damn phone down. Occasionally, look at your kid, talk to them, have a family dinner hour. And don't you be on the phone while your kids are on the phone. If you don't want your kids on the phone at dinner, put yours away. I didn't say put it down on the table. A lot of research showing you put a phone on the table, you're not really there. Only half of your brain is talking to your family or whoever's at the table. The other half is thinking something more interesting might be popping up here any second. So I got to keep it right here. And it's in my field of view, if you want to have better social relations, better conversations, you need to put it out of your sight. Preferably turn it off during the dinner hour. Oh, but that's a tj or someone needed me. What if a client needed me? Guess what. You are not that important. I'm not that important. I routinely turn my phone off, typically more than a dozen hours a day, all night when I sleep, a couple hours before I go to sleep. And if I'm at mealtime, I certainly put it out of vision. And for at least an hour a day, if I go for a walk, I literally leave it at home, and it's not connected to me in any way. I'm not telling you, you got to get rid of your cell phone. I'm not telling you we all have to go back to the simple phones, a flip phone. I'm not telling you that. But. But there have to be limitations. Because the smartest people in the world, the people with the highest IQs, graduating from the MITs of the world, people with PhDs in artificial intelligence and psychology are spending all their time trying to figure out how to make stuff from here more enticing to your brain and your kid's brain. Because the more minutes we spend here, the more billions Mark Zuckerberg and the CEOs of Apple and Google and all the tech companies make. And I use those tech companies. And through my mutual funds. I invest in most of them. But you have to focus on you and your family first, not being an unpaid volunteer for Mark Zuckerberg. And that's what it is if you're spending your time hunched over looking at social media for hours and hours a day and that's what's happening to your kids. You know, everyone talks about, wish my kid would get a part time job or a summer job or an internship. Well, guess what they do. It's an unpaid internship for the owners of TikTok and YouTube and Facebook. That's what your kids are doing. And it's not really training them for anything at all useful in their life or their career that will benefit them in any way. So that's what we're gonna have to address. Thank you for joining me today. This is filtered with TJ Walker. I'm the host. I have been working with CEOs, Wall Street Wizards, billionaire finance managers, presidents of countries for decades around the globe on how to communicate effectively and helping them with various aspects of personal development. 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It responds like I would, based on my real world coaching of thousands of leaders and communicators. Check it out at tjwalker AI. It's not just smart, it's personal. According to new research led by Professor Ann Cordier at the University of Lorraine, teenagers ignoring your phone calls isn't necessarily a sign of bad manners. It's part of a new digital effort etiquette. For 13 to 18 year olds, the phone is no longer primarily a voice tool. Instead, live calls are reserved for emergencies, moments of distress, or urgent updates. Most of the time, teens prefer texting, voice notes or messaging apps. Written communication gives them control, time to think and edit and respond when they're ready. A surprise phone call, by contrast, demands immediate attention, offers no safety net, and can feel intrusive. This isn't about rejection, it's about boundaries. In a hyper connected world, many teens even put their phones on silent mode to reclaim mental space among friends. It's now common to check in via text before calling, a sign of respect rather than avoidance. For adults, it may feel like the rules have flipped, but this change is less about losing connection and more about reinventing it on terms that give both sides more space, clarity and control. Okay, so what's the real message here? If you want to communicate effectively, you need to think about not just what's comfortable for me, but for the person I'm talking to. I have no problem if 13, 14, 15 year olds say, I'm not going to call a friend. I don't want my friends to call me. But if an adult of a certain age calls them, they do need to realize it is profoundly rude to that person to not accept the call. Especially if it's a family member. Especially if it's a family member who actually paid for the cell phone and the cell phone subscription. Now, for people who aren't parents who pay for the subscription, we have to learn too. We have to learn that young people don't want to be called and in fact we have to adopt to their techniques of send a text first. Okay, let's dig deeper. Norms, standards, etiquette. It always evolves, it always changes. It's never static. What was good policy, what was considered polite in one era can be considered rude in another. And from one culture to another, it can vary. I don't want to be one of these old stodgy boomers. And yes, I am a boomer who said, yeah, kids these days are all rude and obnoxious. I don't want to be like that. But I will be transparent with you and let you know. Yeah, it annoys me when my own daughter, who has an old phone of mine and I pay the bills and she's out at a friend's house or doing a sleepover and I'm calling her, or mother's calling her and she doesn't pick up. It is annoying. It's absolutely annoying. So I do think that different generations have to be respectful of others. I do realize that my daughter, if she's off playing and having fun with friends, isn't saying, boy, oh boy, I sure wish I could stop playing now and talk to my parents. I realize that. But there has to be some recognition that when you're not taking a phone call for people from people of a certain generation, and it is, it is a slap in the face. There's no doubt about it. And at some point adults have to realize, certainly if your kid is now 26 years old and they live in another city and they have a job and they have friends, that maybe just calling out of the blue isn't the best first overture. Maybe the best thing to do is send a text saying, hey, got time to chat this afternoon or this evening? When's a good time? That can be a softer entry place into having an actual conversation. So I'm not here to bash young people and I'm not here to bash old people either. I think people of every generation have to understand what is it you're trying to communicate? Who are you trying to communicate with and in what way? I mean, let's say you are 22 and you and your friends never ever called each other, but all of a sudden you're trying to do an Internet startup and you're actively soliciting investors and you had a good meeting with an investor yesterday and you shared numbers and now this investor's calling you. My recommendation, answer the phone. Because chances are the investor, if it's an angel investor, probably looks more like me than one of your 22 year old friends. It's probably an older man and Sorry to stereotype. There are exceptions, but chances are it's an older white man with gray hair, 50 years or older. And if you want their money, you need to answer your phone call. If you are applying for jobs and you're waiting to hear about whether they want you for the next interview or they want to hire you, my recommendation, answer your phone. There's one part of this story that troubles me, which is this idea that even among friends and family, you can't have a spontaneous conversation that you need to. You need, you know, warning, five or ten minutes to collect your thoughts, reformulate your answer. That's not human conversation. That's putting up a script for a podcast or a talk show or a sitcom. And nothing wrong with that. I do it every day. But when it comes to the most intimate of human interactions, conversations among family, among friends, you shouldn't need extra time to think and reflect. I understand someone's calling you and asking you a follow up question about something that happened at the job interview. Yeah, you might want time to reflect and think about what can I say to increase my odds of getting the job, I can understand that and respect that. But for normal everyday conversation, that just seems a bit precious to me. So I'm not buying that at all. Okay, let's go to story number three. According to new research Ann Verhoff at Northwest University in South Africa, a growing number of AI Jesus chatbots are presenting themselves not as tools inspired by Christianity, but as Jesus Christ himself. And they're doing it for profit. Veerhoff examined five popular platforms. AI Jesus, Virtual Jesus Jesus AI Text with Jesus, and Ask Jesus. None were created or endorsed by any church. And I should point out, they were not created or endorsed by Jesus either. All are run by for profit companies, most relying on advertising, with one offering premium subscriptions. The study warns that algorithms will adjust theology to whatever content gets the most engagement, not to biblical accuracy or a faith tradition. When asked identical questions, these chatbots gave widely different answers about core beliefs like the existence of hell, highlighting the risk of theological inconsistency. Some churches are experimenting with AI Jesus in confession booths and even sermons, and many users report feeling comforted. But Veroff warns these systems claim divine authority without oversight, making them a potential tool for manipulation and faith, politics and money. Okay, so what's the real message here? AI Jesus is a real thing in the sense of, yes, it's technology. It's all over the Internet. And if you're used to giving 10% of your income to a church, a religion, a cult, Whatever it is, AI technology is going to be used to get that money out of you even faster, to hook you more, to manipulate you more. So you've been warned. It's not that all AI is bad. It's not that all chatbots are bad. I've got an AI clone of myself, but last time I checked, I didn't claim to be a divinity online. So buyer beware. You've got to learn how to scrutinize. Be skeptical. Whether it's religion, whether it's someone selling you a new frying pan, be skeptical, especially of anyone claiming to be a God or a son of God. Okay, let's dig deeper here. A lot of different people watch this show and listen to this show of differing religious beliefs. And I want to be respectful to all of them. And I also want to recognize the fact that while some of you may be Christians, as was the case of this story talking about AI Jesus, the very same thing can happen to any founder of a religion. You could turn their writings, their thoughts, upload it into a large language model, put a face on it, put a voice on it, and you've got A.I. any Confucius, any I, any religion you want. A.I. joseph Smith you could have. So it is possible. The technology makes it very easy to do that. Is it necessarily bad? This is where it gets a little bit tricky for me to talk about it in a way that is fair and honest to my own belief. I'm not a fan of organized religion. I'm just going to be right up front with it. So it's very hard for me to say, well, this is fake. But what somebody says on a Sunday morning or a Saturday evening in front of a place and a dress and red shoes and a big hat, somehow that's real to me. All of it's kind of based on fantasy fiction, ghost stories, adult level, Santa Claus. I'm going to leave it up to you. This is not going to turn into a show debating the existence of God. What I want you to think about though is the existence of new technologies into old institutions. Organized religion, particularly the one I'm talking about, has been around a long time. And in the same way that in, you know, the 50s, 60s, 70s, we saw the rise of tele evangelist in my own neighborhood. Growing up in Charlotte, North Carolina, a mile away was Jim Baker and the PTL Club. And they got really good at hey, Jesus wants you to pick up the phone and give us your credit card so Jim can buy gold, more gold plated faucets in his Mansion and it's for Jesus. That was the new technology, the television, the 1, 800 numbers, the direct appeals. So there's always some new technology for anyone who's trying to market a religion or get rich from marketing a religion is going to use. This is simply the latest example of that. So we're going to be taking a good look at this carefully. As AI technology evolves, it's certainly going to be used to help people. I hope I'm helping people with my AI clone, which is tjwalker AI. You've seen it mentioned in the ads and I talk about it from time to time. You can use my AI clone to do things like practice a speech, practice an interview, get feedback on your backdrop. My clone will actually say, hey tj, you got a window behind you. It's too bright, it's making your face dark. Change that so you can check it out. It costs nothing your first handful of times of trying it. And in fact you can use my clone and not even give your name or email if you don't want to. If you want a text response to communications issues or personal development issues. So all that and more. We'll be talking about other issues coming up. But first let's check in with some of our viewers and listeners. Festus writes well, this phone etiquette stuff is tough. We are adjusting so much and losing values and the right culture that should sustain and strengthen the human bond. Well, my view may be one sided, but I've been building something that answers to the new world new world norm and the chaos it's costing us. Above all, thanks for your stand on this issue. It makes sense. Hey Festus, now you've intrigued me. What is it you're building? What is your solution? I would love to see solutions because I. It's easy for me to say I don't like this or this is bad, but I don't have an easy solution to getting family and friends to spend less time on this. Even if something is having a family movie night where we're all having this shared experience. This happened to me recently with a friend of the family over. We're in our new theater watching it and one of the people in the room is like staring at their phone. The room is completely dark other than the screen. I'm looking for a shared experience. They're not paying attention and now it's ruining my attention. So Festus, if you have a solution for this, I would absolutely love to know because it is a growing, growing concern in the world. Let's take A look at issue four today. A lot of fun news we have going on today. On Sunday, I'm very much glad you're here. And let's dive into issue four. The New York City mayor's just turned personal and ugly. Former Governor Andrew Cuomo took direct take Assemblyman Zoran Mamdani over a rent stabilized apartment in Astoria, Queens. I used to live in Queens. A lot of nice places there. A lot of expensive places. In a post on X that's been viewed more than 26 million times, Cuomo wrote, quote, a single mother and her children slept at a homeless shelter because Mamdani was occupying her rent controlled apartment. He accused Mamdani of being rich, pointing out that assembly members make more than $140,000 a year and called on him to move out. In replies to his own post, Cuomo went further, calling Mamdani disgusting and accusing him of really not doing the right thing. He specifically said that he was taking this rent controlled apartment away, a rent stabilized apartment, away from someone who could have used it more and called on him to move out. In his own post, Cuomo went further, calling Mamdani disgusting and accusing him of callous theft. The Mamdani campaign fired back hard. Spokesman Dora Peckett said evidently Andrew Cuomo's call with Donald Trump was not just to conspire on the New York City mayoral race, but also an opportunity for the disgraced former governor to learn the art of a Twitter crash out from a fellow corrupt serial sex harasser. Cuomo is not only learning from Trump, he's becoming him. The only thing missing is a red hat. The clash comes as affordability and rent stabilization dominate the race, with both sides eager to frame the other as out of touch with working New Yorkers. Okay, so what's the real message here? I give Andrew Cuomo for trying to learn about this new social media thing and fighting fire with fire social media and sort of calling out Mandani for appearing to be a hypocrite. Making $140,000 a year is not a lot of money in New York City, but it is a lot more than the average New Yorker makes. So it's a fair point to suggest maybe he shouldn't be taking advantage from rent stabilized appointments. But boy, oh boy, is this a case of someone getting to the top of Little League all of a sudden fighting against someone who's in the major leagues. Let's just analyze this quote coming from the Mamdani spokesperson because it really the irony is the spokesperson is accusing of Cuomo of learning from Donald Trump. The reality is the spokeswoman, Dora Pecker, did exactly what Donald Trump would do. But in a way, I think that's authentic to Mamdani and isn't lying. Let's look at this quote. Evidently Andrew Cuomo's call with Donald Trump was not so that he is. She is referencing something that actually happened. Trump and Cuomo go back decades. They're both essentially Nepo babies. They've known each other for 40 some years. They do talk from time to time. He says it was not just to conspire in the New York City mayoral. Conspire is a great soundbite word guaranteeing that it got on the front page of the New York Times. The people like me are reading it. Also an opportunity for the disgraced former governor. It is true, Andrew Cuomo was disgraced. It's an attack. Hard, hard attack to learn the art of Twitter crash out. I'm not sure I even know what that means, but it sounds dramatic from a fellow corrupt serial sex harasser. So this is just brilliant politics, brilliant social media, because it's, it's an attack and it's an attack based on facts and it's done so in a compressed way. So it's attacking, it's emotional, it's evoking pop culture, tying Cuomo to Trump. And it's also humorous because it's such a forceful attack from a corrupt serial sex harasser. Cuomo is not only learning from Trump, he's becoming him. The only missing thing is a red hat. Talking, referring to the red MAGA hat. That is world class counterpunching. That is world class trolling. It's hitting so many things. It's tying Cuomo to Trump. And Trump is extraordinarily unpopular in New York City, Trump's native, native city. Trump would lose any landslide if he had to run for reelection just in New York City. So this is a perfect example of how, frankly, Democrats need to get as good as Republicans are at using social media. It was both sides are attacking in ways that were fair. Because the reality is it's fair for Cuomo to talk about. Here's a guy talking about affordability, but he makes $140,000 a year. Why is this guy in a rent stabilized $2,000 a month apartment when other people who have incomes of 80,000, 60,000, 30,000 could really use that. So it's totally fair. And yet what Madani's spokesperson said back was also really fair. Cuomo was disgraced. He was disgraced for being a sexual harasser. He does have that in common with Trump. So quite often there are a lot of Democrats, centrist liberals, others who feel like, well, you can't be like Trump unless you lie all the time. No, it is true that Trump does lie pretty much all the time, but you don't have to lie in order to use social media effectively to master the art of the, of the sound bite effectively. And that's exactly what happened here. So Festus says, oh, you'll DM me. I feel free to DM me anytime. I would love to hear from you. You can reach out really, on any social media platform. Looks like you're on LinkedIn. So yes, I'm on LinkedIn. Today we are streaming live on LinkedIn, on YouTube, on Facebook, on Twitch and coming mark your calendar. September 2, 2025, we'll be rolling this show out officially on every podcast platform as well as every social media platform. So get ready for that. We have a lot of fun in store. So Festus, I look forward to learning about your, your ventures and if you're joining us live, thanks for joining us. I appreciate you watching. Post a comment, let me know where you are today and what platform you're using and how you found this show. If you're watching it on demand, post your comments, your questions. I do read all comments and try to respond to all of them. My name is TJ Walker and for decades I have been the communications coach, the media trainer, the presentation skills coach to billionaires On Wall Street, CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, presidents of countries, Nobel Peace Prize winners, and yes, Ms. Universes. I coach them on how to communicate messages to you through the media through speeches. Now I'm sor of taking you through the back door, showing you what's really going on and how you can do the same thing. So we're trying to look at the news and use it to learn. It's so easy to watch the news every day and just get cynical, just get depressed, doom scrolling. I don't want that to happen to you. I want you to actually feel like you're improving yourself. You're getting something out of the news. So it's a slightly different presentation assumption for a newscast than what you see anyplace else or what you hear anyplace else. Eve writes. Looking good tj. Been a student of yours for a long time. Well Eve, great to hear from you. And remind me what classes have you been in and if you have any questions today, let me know. I'm gonna. Oh, I have to hop off in just a minute here because I've got friends coming to play pickleball and I don't want to be rude to them. So I got to go right to our next and final story today. But Eve, great to hear from you. Thanks so much. I do appreciate it. We're just going to skip the last ad segment today. Story 5 In one of the most surprising political wins of 2024, Democrat Jeff Jackson was elected Attorney general of North Carolina, my home state. The same year Donald Trump carried the state for the third strike time. His secret weapon? TikTok Jackson, a former prosecutor, state legislator and army veteran, built a following of more than 2 million people on the platform by posting plain spoken explainers on everything from the Silicon Valley bank collapse to Ticketmaster pricing. His style is calm, direct and non shouting, stood out in a political climate fueled by outrage, as he puts it. People have been fed that cotton candy for so long that they were finally ready for some broccoli. And I was there to be broccoli. When GOP lawmakers redrew his congressional district into one he couldn't win, Jackson pivoted to a statewide race and beat Republican Dan Bishop by nearly three points. Glad to see that happen. Danny Bishop was someone I served with once in student government in the 1970s. We went to the same high school. But he went off in a sad, bizarre direction in his career. Anyway, glad to see Jackson beat Dan Bishop now in office. He's kept a lower profile than many Democratic attorneys general, suing the Trump administration only 10 times so far. But his social media presence continues to rack up views suggesting Democrats may see his broccoli politics as as a model for winning competitive states. Okay, so what's the real message here? Attorney General Jeff Jackson in North Carolina is someone who gets it. He understands social media. He understands it doesn't have to be shouting. It doesn't have to be showing body parts or cleavage. It doesn't even have to be funny. Simply by giving solid information, giving people substance, he built an audience of 2 million followers to his social media accounts. And that makes him a superstar among Democrats around the nation, makes him a rising superstar in North Carolina. It means a lot of people are going to look to him to run for either governor or US Senator from North Carolina. So write this name down. Jeff Jackson understands social media as a Democrat, and that's a rare thing. Let's dig a little deeper. There is the assumption among a lot of politicians, especially on the Democratic side of things, that you have to be very, very cautious, calm. Everything you put out in the media has to be vetted, thought about, your lawyers have to look at it. Your comms people have to look at it. You don't want to offend anyone. You want to get it just right. Well, what Donald Trump has shown to the entire world is that's not the way the world works anymore. It's much more powerful to simply share all of your thoughts, put out a lot of thoughts on a regular basis, get attention. And in Trump's case, if you're wrong, most of the time, it doesn't seem to matter. I would argue if you are not Donald Trump, if you are a centrist, a little bit right of center, a little bit left of center, you, you need to get your facts right. But the basic model that Trump has, which is filter things right through your brain and out to the world, rather than filtering them through a comms team, legal IR and every other department, that's really the way you're going to build a following in the modern world. So. Jeff Jackson, North Carolina Attorney General, well done. You're getting a lot of attention. And you, you're certainly on most people's short list of having a long and upward trajectory with your career in North Carolina. I'm T.J. walker. I want to thank you for joining me today. I will see you tomorrow and every day right here on Filtered with TJ Walker. On Filtered with TJ Walker.