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- 0:00Speaker 1: Aren't imagine sleeping in a ninety degree angle and your
- 0:03Speaker 1: butt is one hundred and twenty dere Oh no, all right,
- 0:05Speaker 1: so it's light FM Cuby and Christine. Remember the Amazon
- 0:08Speaker 1: Web service major audage that happened on Monday. Yeah, it
- 0:12Speaker 1: caused like a ripple effect across America and actually around
- 0:16Speaker 1: the world. Nearly every industry was affected, and one unexpected
- 0:20Speaker 1: hiccup left some tech owner is in a weird I
- 0:23Speaker 1: guess you could say position when bedtime came around. Yes,
- 0:27Speaker 1: so what happened, Christine.
- 0:28Speaker 2: There's a there's a bed it's called eight sleeps pod
- 0:31Speaker 2: mattress covers that went offline during the outage, and so
- 0:37Speaker 2: the beds were stuck in the upright position with the
- 0:42Speaker 2: high temperature going and people were of course upset because
- 0:48Speaker 2: the outage impacted them, disrupted their sleep. They couldn't get
- 0:52Speaker 2: the bed down to like just a resting spot, and
- 0:55Speaker 2: the customers just saying, there's got to be an offline mode.
- 0:58Speaker 2: So if this ever happens again, not stuck in the
- 1:00Speaker 2: incline position. CEO of eight Sleep tweeting he's sorry about it,
- 1:05Speaker 2: and they are working on that, okay, like they're working
- 1:08Speaker 2: on a solution should something like this happen again.
- 1:11Speaker 1: You ever thought about that? Because we have a bed
- 1:13Speaker 1: that can do all that. It's not one of those beds. Yeah,
- 1:16Speaker 1: this is a regular different kind of bed, but it
- 1:17Speaker 1: goes up and down and the beat go up and
- 1:19Speaker 1: all that.
- 1:19Speaker 2: All the time.
- 1:20Speaker 1: If you thought about, like, if the power goes out all.
- 1:22Speaker 2: The time, really sleep number bed. I love it, but
- 1:25Speaker 2: I incline a lot and then I want to go
- 1:26Speaker 2: to sleep. And if there's a thunderstorm, if something's going
- 1:30Speaker 2: on and they're warning we could lose power, like flat,
- 1:32Speaker 2: go flat now because I don't want to sit up
- 1:36Speaker 2: the whole night.
- 1:36Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought about that too.
- 1:38Speaker 2: I don't know if there's a default mode on the bed.
- 1:40Speaker 2: There may be where it would go to the flat position.
- 1:43Speaker 2: I'm not sure.
- 1:44Speaker 3: Yeah, how about you, Christen, I don't think there is
- 1:47Speaker 3: the if it's just like a pluget, you control it.
- 1:50Speaker 3: Yeah right, Yeah, because that's what we have too. I
- 1:51Speaker 3: used it a lot when I was pregnant, and that
- 1:54Speaker 3: was always my biggest fear though, that you would be
- 1:56Speaker 3: stuck in Yeah, because when you're pregnant, no position is comfortable.
- 1:59Speaker 3: So I'm like, if I'm stuck I'm never.
- 2:01Speaker 1: Getting any sleep, right, well, so fallout from that Amazon
- 2:04Speaker 1: Web service adage from Monday. You know we're hearing about
- 2:07Speaker 1: this now.
- 2:07Speaker 2: Tho's so many things.
- 2:08Speaker 1: It's kind of funny, but also, you know what else
- 2:10Speaker 1: could be stocked?
- 2:11Speaker 2: Not funny if you're cooking and sitting up in your
- 2:13Speaker 2: bed all night, right.
- 2:14Speaker 1: Well, imagine if like the sheets tightened up and you
- 2:16Speaker 1: couldn't get out. I mean, thankfully you can get out now.
- 2:19Speaker 1: Now I'm channeling horror movies in my head.
- 2:21Speaker 2: You know, comes the couch, right, the couch all right?
- 2:25Speaker 1: Three hours commercial free coming up next. But before we
- 2:27Speaker 1: do that, we have something for caller number ten one
- 2:30Speaker 1: one hundred two two two one oh six seven. What
- 2:32Speaker 1: are you doing, Christine.
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- 2:43Speaker 1: Or be caller ten and our number one more time.
- 2:45Speaker 1: One eight hundred two two two one oh sixty seven.