So this happened on the morning show and I HAVE to share it. B Mack asked Karly to picture coming home to every countertop in the house completely clear – kitchen, side tables, coffee tables, all of it. She just laughed and said it happens to her every single day. I’VE BEEN DOING THIS FOR KARLY FOR OVER THREE YEARS, BUDDY! The counters, the charged iPad, the water, all of it. Then B Mack tried it at his own house and got a foot rub out of it. I don’t mean to brag, but I must be from the future or something, because this “new” relationship hack is something I’m proud to say I’ve been doing for years! Have a listen above, or check out the segment, transcribed word for word below. And gentlemen… do it. Trust me. 😏
Sun Mornings with B Mack and Karly on 99.9 Sun FM Kelowna
Air Date: 2026-10-08
B Mack: Okay, I’m gonna paint a picture for Karly, but you guys play along too. Especially if you’re a woman, because I want you to picture your partner. Say you guys have been very busy, or maybe doing some renos, maybe you’re painting or something, I don’t know, something like that, and just a bit of a mess of the house. And it’s not the way you’d like your standard clean house to be, right? Because, uh, clean house, clean mind or something like that? So picture this scenario. You come home after this mess, you’re expecting to walk in, and you walk into that kitchen, and every single thing on the countertop is gone. It is a completely clear countertop. And I’m not even just talking the kitchen. I’m talking the side table. I’m talking the kitchen table. I’m talking the coffee tables. How do you feel right now?
Karly: Happens to me every single day.
B Mack: Really? Wow.
Karly: He does it. He does it for me every single day. You’re kidding. So he figured it out already.
B Mack: Yeah, well, you need to tell me sooner!
Karly: He knows, like, he knows if I maybe didn’t have the best day. So you’re talking specifically countertops – yeah, he always… he goes even further though. I’ll mention something like, two days ago I said, hey babe, let’s see over the weekend, we can take the glass out of the gas fireplace and see if we can clean the glass. The other day I came home, I look at the fireplace and I’m like, why does that look… He’s like, I cleaned the glass like you asked. That’s awesome. And every time I come home from work, he probably put it on his Muse agent. Every time, everything’s done. On my chair, he has my fully charged iPad. He has a cup of my water ready for me. So when I come home from work, everything is ready to go. iPad’s charged, everything’s set up. So the effects of having a clean, completely empty countertop? It’s the best.
B Mack: So guys, this is the key to your relationship. This might actually help you. I tried this with my wife. She sent me the damn video. And I did diligently put things away. Major stuff was clean, nothing on the countertops. And she noticed. And she was like, oh my god, and went on and raved, and I swear I reaped the benefits. Let me tell you everything. I got a foot rub that night. Had the greatest sleep of my life.
Karly: [laughing]
B Mack: But taking it a little bit further – now that you have your agent. If she says something that she wants, write it down, put it on the agent, do it for her.
Karly: Yeah.
B Mack: You’ll get extra lucky, if you know what I’m saying.
The above image was generated with AI, of course. The essay that follows, was not.
September 15, 2026
by Matthew Jensen
I have had a surge of people who are genuinely scared about AI (artificial intelligence) coming to me over the past week.
Not “AI might take my job” scared – I mean… “AI might take humanity” scared.
So, I sat with my own thoughts and debated myself (and ChatGPT itself) and thought about it.
I listened to the people who believe AI could ultimately become an existential threat and I argued the other side to try to find where “I” land.
And then I tried something increasingly unpopular in 2026… I tried not to pick a team.
Here is my honest conclusion.
We. Don’t. Know.
Anyone who tells you with absolute certainty that AI is going to destroy humanity does not KNOW that.
And anyone who tells you with absolute certainty that AI is perfectly safe does not know THAT either.
This has never happened before.
Zero previous civilizations created intelligence greater than their own so it isn’t something we can study to see how it turned out.
Not a great sample size.
So yes, the risks are real.
AI… may eventually improve AI!
It may become dramatically more capable than we are. Humans may use it maliciously. Companies or countries may race each other and take risks they should not take. That is a risk.
These possibilities deserve some very serious attention.
But it is important to be clear: a POSSIBILITY is not a PROBABILITY.
And UNCERTAINTY is not EVIDENCE of CATASTROPHE.
Human beings have been faced with technological advances since… well, humanity.
The automobile, aviation, electricity, nuclear technology were all dangerous or terrifying. The Internet created dangers we had never considered or imagined.
And unfortunately, tragedy HAS struck…
Humans have died in cars, airplanes, spacecraft… every type of transportation – including horse-drawn carriages.
People have even died because of smartphones.
It turns out that we, as humanity, seem hell bent on inventing increasingly sophisticated ways to kill ourselves!
Luckily, we, as humanity, find increasingly sophisticated ways to stop ourselves from doing it.
Seatbelts, airbags, air traffic control, electrical codes, drug trials, nuclear treaties, cybersecurity, and I could go on.
We generally don’t solve every problem before we invent the thing.
We invent the thing, discover the exciting parts, discover the part where it might kill us and then somebody says, “Okay. We should probably put a guardrail there.”
And – fun fact – I was actually part of Y2K remediation.
People look back now and laugh because midnight came, the lights stayed on, planes stayed in the air and civilization survived.
But Y2K wasn’t proof that everybody worried for nothing.
Thousands and thousands of us worked to make sure nothing happened.
Sometimes a catastrophe that doesn’t come to pass isn’t evidence that the warning was stupid.
Sometimes it means somebody fixed the damn problem.
And that’s the part of the AI conversation I think we sometimes forget.
When people imagine AI getting dramatically smarter over the next ten years, they sometimes pit that future AI against the humans of today.
AI gets smarter and smarter and smarter while apparently the rest of humanity stands around saying, “Well… shit.”
I don’t buy that.
We won’t be the HUMANS of 2026 in 2036.
We’ll have ten more years of discoveries, failures to learn from, laws, safeguards, research, international agreements, monitoring and ideas nobody has thought of yet.
And we will have something humanity has never had during a technological revolution before:
So the future probably isn’t “HUMANS versus SUPERINTELLIGENCE.”
It’s probably humans, institutions, scientists, engineers and AI – working in tandem to deal with whatever comes next.
And sometimes the solution can’t even BE invented until the problem exists long enough for somebody to look at it and see the room for improvement they hadn’t visualized before they saw the thing in existence.
That’s when somebody has their lightbulb moment.
This is what we, as humans do.
Does that guarantee everything will be okay?
No.
There is no contract with the universe promising humanity a happy ending.
Pretending there is would be every bit as irresponsible as telling you that we’re doomed.
But there’s another side of this calculation that matters.
What happens if we stop?
There are risks on both sides.
If AI eventually helps us discover new cancer treatments, diagnose diseases earlier, prevent accidents, create new medicines, make education available to everyone, help people with disabilities, and solve scientific problems humans have not yet been able to solve on their own, then STOPPING that progress has consequences too.
The person killed by an AI mistake will make the news – and they should – but the person who DOESN’T die of cancer twenty years from now because AI helped discover the treatment?
There will never be regular “LOCAL MAN CONTINUES BEING ALIVE TODAY” headlines.
Fear, on the other hand, has an excellent marketing department… it always has.
Every generation has had its version of “THIS changes everything.”
And often… it actually does.
So after everything I’ve researched, listened to and argued about, here is where I land.
I DON’T think we should blindly trust artificial intelligence and I ALSO don’t think we should blindly fear it.
AI deserves vigilance proportional to its power and the fear ought to be proportional to the evidence.
We need to collectively demand safeguards, alignment, accountability from the companies and governments building these things and we need to listen to the people sounding alarms.
The fact that we are HAVING this argument isn’t evidence that humanity has lost – or is about to lose control, but rather, it is more likely evidence that the human control system has already switched on.
Someone builds something.
Someone else says, “Wait. What happens if…?”
Someone tests it.
Someone finds the flaw.
Someone invents the safeguard.
Someone makes a law.
Someone breaks the law.
Someone invents a BETTER safeguard.
It’s all so VERY human.
And this is not the last time we will go through this.
Quantum computing, radical longevity, interstellar travel, maybe even perfect humanoid companions… who knows?
Maybe someday – time travel!
Although I suggest we make sure THAT one exists before we start regulating parking for our DeLoreans.
There will ALWAYS be new frontiers and every one of them will give humanity another reason to ask, “What if this changes everything?”
And you know what? It will.
That’s what frontiers do, after all.
The question isn’t whether change is coming, the question is what we do when it gets here, and no person can promise you that AI won’t hurt people any more than another person can promise you that everything will work out – there is no guarantee that we will get it all right.
But look around you.
Almost everything surrounding you right now exists because somebody, somewhere, walked toward something humanity didn’t completely understand yet, took the risk, discovered the danger, made it safer, and eventually… what once seemed impossible became ordinary.
So for me, I refuse to surrender the future to either blind optimism or blind fear.
I want us alert, careful, and arguing.
I want the smartest people on Earth worrying about what could go wrong while the rest of us remain curious about what could go right.
Because maybe the lesson of human history isn’t that “everything always works out,” because clearly it doesn’t.
Maybe the lesson is simpler.
We keep working it out.
And if there is one thing about the future that history actually HAS taught us, it’s this…
Humanity has never needed to know exactly what comes next to take the next step.
Way back in 2022 at the Country Music Alberta awards in Red Deer, where I met the great Ron Sakamoto, a young band called NewLaw that I had been working with for years was nominated for the Fan’s Choice Award. I met them in the lobby prior to the ceremony and we talked about their nomination.
I asked if they had speeches ready and they didn’t! When I asked them why, they told me to look at the other nominees. I reminded them that they are ALL in the same boat, it’s always anybody’s game and they should at least prepare to “cause a scene” if they win. They jokingly asked me if that meant they should swear on stage, despite not believing that they would win. I told them that, as a Christian music group, they probably shouldn’t do that, but to try to find something.
Well… watch!
Needless to say, this caused an uproar and LOTS of discussion in the enormous crowd after, making them “the talk of the night” AND THAT clip was the sound byte that was used on radio the next day when broadcasters were recapping the event.
That, and here’s a fun fact: I once helped someone win a Juno by producing percussion on a blues track, but they never mentioned me when they WON, but I once said in a lyric of one of my songs that I dreamed of being mentioned at a music awards – so check that off the bucket list! (Thanks, boys)
I heard from their mom, asking me, “WHAT DID YOU DO?” but I stood my ground and chuckled. “Marketing!” Is what I said.
And those boys have continued on their musical journey since.
My dad is a master salesman. For years I have encouraged him to write a book to anecdotally teach others, which he has now started – he has the first 3 chapters complete. I encouraged him to call it The Tale of the Sale years ago, which he loved, so we are going with that. I get to have the distinction of being his proofreader, editor, and cover designer.
For the cover, my first thought was to see what the highest customer-rated sales-related books on Amazon look like to see if we can gather some data from that as to how the cover itself might be garnering clicks + purchases. I used AI to analyze a screenshot showing the top ones and asked it to identify any specific aspects or elements that might be specific contributing factors. The results were amazing!
After giving it a little more information, we settled on 3 potential concepts and now, having seen them, it’s hard to choose. Check it out!
Personally, I am leaning towards the one of the little boy carrying a briefcase for a few reasons, not the least of which is the fact that even as a young boy, Doug was already into sales to the point that his mom used to call him, “Dougie, my little salesman.”
That, and I can’t help but feel that the cover itself is a totally unique concept and really lends itself to not only the fact that this young boy found his way in the world through sales.
I’m going to design it myself, but this is a great start!
If you’re curious, this is the gamut of the top customer-rated sales-related books:
I have now completed this custom social media post approval dashboard for my client, who – in addition to needing their approval for each post – needs their company’s approval. Super proud of this one!
We sure have come a long way from some basic “computer help!” First it was the monthly marketing program (1 post every weekday to Facebook and Instagram) to now:
1 post every weekday to Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Google Business, including the campaign and content development itself
New website, built, hosted, and managed by yours truly (building and improving every weekday)
Restored Google Business Profile being managed and tweaked every weekday
Email management
Booking management
Get a closer look to see what a cohesive ecosystem looks like – gratefulmedium.ca.
It is just incredible to see how many people and teams are participating in this year’s annual Payton and Dillon Budd Memorial Ride + Walk. They have now exceeded their target fundraising amount and extended the goal. Check it out here.
At every AI event, I put out a challenge, called The Tightrope Banana Challenge and invariably people will try, but to this day, no one has quite gotten it right. They get close – as do I, but the physics of a banana on a tightrope seems to just be the one thing that AI can’t quite do. This was a message and video sent to my by an attendee of my most recent event. See what I mean?
