A note to our listeners, this episode contains a mention of suicide.

Remember the Jetsons?

Cartoon family from the future, where everyone in that future lives in apartment buildings on very tall, thin sticks,

and you never find out what happened to the actual planet far below.

I mean, you fear the worst. Why else would

they have to live up there on those sticks? I digress. Remember the Jetsons? And remember they

had Rosie, a robot maid, and Rosie was more than a maid, really a loving, caring member of the

family. Don't be silly, Rosie.

You are worth your weight in leftovers.

Thank you.

And I love you people, too.

Hey, Rosie, is this how to sink a basket?

Very good, Roy, boy.

Except you'll have to learn to let go of it.

Not tonight, Elroy. It's time to blast off for Dreamland.

Well, okay. If Rosie tucks me in and tells me about the cow that degradated over the moon.

Miss, I got to hear, too. Will you, Rosie?

Yes, ma'am. Thank you, ma'am. Good night, ma'am.

Even though Rosie was not really a human right, right? She was a machine, a home appliance that the Jetsons related to as though she had a soul, even though she did not. Why did they do that? Or remember that show Westworld, where no one was sure who was a robot, even the robots themselves, and it made you wonder, well, what is a human anyway?

But we didn't really have to worry about that that much, because that show and the Jetsons took place in the distant future.

Remember that? Well, that future is now. Unlike the Jetsons, we can still walk around on the ground,

and unlike Westworld, we aren't in much danger of being killed by robotic cowboys yet, but we got

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