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Backlighting & Friction Maxxing · Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

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  Speaker 1: Friction maxing. What the hell could that possibly be? It's
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  Speaker 1: one more thing, I'm strong andy, one more thing before
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  Speaker 1: we get to that. New York Times had this article.
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  Speaker 1: I knew TV backlighting was cool, I didn't expect it
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  Speaker 1: to be such a powerful upgrade. I had not heard
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  Speaker 1: of this concept now. Led lighting, as this guy writing
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  Speaker 1: the article talks about, really got hot during the pandemic.
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  Speaker 1: For some reason. I think it was like the technology
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  Speaker 1: just happened to meet it at a time when everybody
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  Speaker 1: was stuck at home.
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  Speaker 2: My time to change their light fixtures.
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  Speaker 1: But they got super cheap, like these light strings Led
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  Speaker 1: light strings. I mean they're so cheap. My son has
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  Speaker 1: them all around his room. He's at them for a
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  Speaker 1: couple of years. They burn out. The other day we
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  Speaker 1: went and got brand new ones for a total of
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  Speaker 1: like eleven dollars. I mean, they're just so cheap, and
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  Speaker 1: you can really make your room look cool different colors,
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  Speaker 1: and then you can have them, you know, for an
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  Speaker 1: extra five bucks. You can run it off your Wi
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  Speaker 1: Fi and change the colors from your phone or all
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  Speaker 1: kinds of.
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  Speaker 2: What Am I a hippie in this scenario? I've got
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  Speaker 2: lamps like normal people.
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  Speaker 3: The TV ones are must have.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so interesting this backlighting thing, he says, for very
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  Speaker 1: little money, you get these led strips that you put
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  Speaker 1: behind your TV and then they change colors with like
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  Speaker 1: if your TV goes to a dark scene or a
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  Speaker 1: red scene or a light scene, whatever the general color is,
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  Speaker 1: the lights light up in the back of the TV.
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  Speaker 1: And he says, you can't explain until you've seen it
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  Speaker 1: how magical it is and what it does to the
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  Speaker 1: whole immersion TV experience on your big screen TV til
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  Speaker 1: you get these backlights. And so you've done it.
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  Speaker 4: Katie, Yeah, I did it as a surprise for Drew
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  Speaker 4: con It is like you said, it's like the string
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  Speaker 4: it sticks to the back of the TV and then
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  Speaker 4: it has this little contraption that just barely comes over
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  Speaker 4: the front.
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  Speaker 3: Of the TV so it can pick up the colors
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  Speaker 3: on the screen.
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  Speaker 4: And as you're watching, it'll do this lights sequence that
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  Speaker 4: lights up the whole wall behind the TV along with
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  Speaker 4: what's happening.
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  Speaker 3: And it is so cool.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Okay, two questions, are you are you on mushrooms
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  Speaker 2: right now? Are you answer the question?
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  Speaker 1: All right?
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  Speaker 2: So I don't I don't think I get the appeal exactly.
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  Speaker 1: I don't.
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  Speaker 2: Is it that the whole it's real and you're there
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  Speaker 2: with it or what? What's the deal?
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  Speaker 4: It just and I really can't explain it either other
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  Speaker 4: than it just enhances what you're watching.
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  Speaker 1: That's a word this guy used, an immersion. You're just
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  Speaker 1: more immersed in the I.
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  Speaker 4: Mean, even when you're watching sports, it'll change, you know,
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  Speaker 4: it changes color with the courts or the field, and
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  Speaker 4: it just.
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  Speaker 1: All I know is now this reviewer and you, that's
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  Speaker 1: two people that say, you can't believe how cool this is.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm just going to take their word for it
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  Speaker 1: and get it myself. And it's cheap. Most most examples
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  Speaker 1: they had they were pretty cheap.
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  Speaker 3: Sheep, easy to show sheep.
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  Speaker 1: And super easy put up. So I'm going to do
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  Speaker 1: it this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I totally believe that I'll appreciate it when
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  Speaker 2: I see it. It occurs to me it could be
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  Speaker 2: something like it includes what you're seeing in front of
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  Speaker 2: you in your more peripheral vision, which is the way
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  Speaker 2: we perceive the world. I mean, if I'm looking at
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  Speaker 2: a green football field off in the corners where I'm
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  Speaker 2: not really perceiving much at all, is a green football field,
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  Speaker 2: so it's more immersive.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I will explain on the Monday, because
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna get it this weekend and try it out
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  Speaker 1: and my kids and I will really dig it.
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  Speaker 2: What do they call it back of the TV led?
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  Speaker 1: He called it led backlighting? TV backlighting is what he
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  Speaker 1: got TV back enough. So check that out now, So
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  Speaker 1: now you know about it.
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  Speaker 2: Some shrooms, damn hippies.
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  Speaker 1: Now we know that that is. But do we know
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  Speaker 1: what friction maxing is? Let's listen to this.
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  Speaker 4: Well.
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  Speaker 5: Friction maxings is the process of building up our tolerance
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  Speaker 5: for quote inconvenience. One way is to stop sharing your
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  Speaker 5: locations that you have to ask, where are you stop?
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  Speaker 2: You seeing?
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  Speaker 1: Stopping again? I got I had this problem earlier in
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  Speaker 1: the show. We played it right. I don't know how
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  Speaker 1: you TikTok people haven't killed your selves already. If this
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  Speaker 1: is what all TikTok is like, the pace makes me
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  Speaker 1: Nutso they.
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  Speaker 3: Speed it up. There, there's a feature you can.
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  Speaker 1: But why why do you want to be made nutso?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it is making people crazy.
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  Speaker 4: It's making them crazy. But people have to watch your
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  Speaker 4: videos a couple of times.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's right, you pointed out earlier. If I can't
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  Speaker 1: catch everything the first time, I click on it again
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  Speaker 1: and then again, and so I click on it three
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  Speaker 1: times to get the information. And they got three clicks,
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  Speaker 1: So that might actually be the point. Okay, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: really try to focus on this.
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  Speaker 2: Well, well, that's young people that got the attention span
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  Speaker 2: of a gnat. So you can't even pause for a
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  Speaker 2: second lest they say I need more input mar stimulation.
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  Speaker 2: All right, orphins.
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  Speaker 1: I had that experience you were talking about with one
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  Speaker 1: of your daughters or one of your kids where I
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  Speaker 1: was sitting there or watching something on TV, me and
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  Speaker 1: my son, and he's like, he's got his phone in
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  Speaker 1: his hand, he's looking at his phone and me and
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  Speaker 1: occasionally the TV. I said, aren't you interested in this?
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  Speaker 5: Is?
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  Speaker 1: No, I'm interested. Well you're not watching it? Yeah I am. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: it looks to me like you're looking at your phone
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  Speaker 1: and me and other things just as much as the TV.
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  Speaker 2: It's just the way I do it.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, Then you do the woman thing and go all right,
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  Speaker 4: well then what just happened that we're watching?
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's a good one.
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  Speaker 3: You have no effing idea?
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  Speaker 1: Can I use that tone?
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  Speaker 3: Of voice totally, why not?
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  Speaker 1: But like, where are you making your husband watch some
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  Speaker 1: sort of Jane Austen drama? Pick, I can't remember what
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  Speaker 1: we're watching tuning out on that.
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  Speaker 4: I can't remember what we were watching it, but something
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  Speaker 4: he picked and I looked over and he was on
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  Speaker 4: his phone every time I looked over, and I was like,
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  Speaker 4: do you should we just turn this off? He said,
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  Speaker 4: I'm watching it and I went, all right, well, then
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  Speaker 4: what just happened?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there is, That's what happens.
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  Speaker 1: There is something annoying about your sitting down to watch
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  Speaker 1: a show with somebody and they're not watching it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yes, it is because you're supposed to be having
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  Speaker 2: a communal experience, a shared experience, and they've opted out
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  Speaker 2: in front of you.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And then I'll laugh or I'll say oh my god
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  Speaker 1: or whatever, and they don't react because they weren't watching right. Right.
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  Speaker 1: It's annoying and nobody.
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  Speaker 2: Is ever Lord, forgive me for using this phrase in
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  Speaker 2: the moment. Nobody has ever invested in what they are
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  Speaker 2: doing entirely, which is where the joy is. But you know, people,
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  Speaker 2: good luck. It's telling me and Joe Getty's in Woods
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  Speaker 2: Mellow in the f out commune or if we're doing
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  Speaker 2: one thing, we're doing.
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  Speaker 1: That thing right. And you have to read your pamphlet
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  Speaker 1: before you join Where the joy is you go there
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  Speaker 1: and get your joy on.
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  Speaker 2: And the disclaimer form is long, by the way, hold harmless.
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  Speaker 1: Still don't know what friction maxing is because this person
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  Speaker 1: talks too fast, but I'm going to really try to
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  Speaker 1: listen this time.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 5: Friction maxings is the process of building up our tolerance
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  Speaker 5: for quote inconvenience. One way is to stop sharing your
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  Speaker 5: locations that you have to ask where are you? Stop
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  Speaker 5: using chatchigoti, buy a cookbook, text your friends for advice,
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  Speaker 5: go to the grocery store, invite people, abore without cleaning,
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  Speaker 5: babysit for someone. These are just like things that we
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  Speaker 5: use to do all the time, but that now we
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  Speaker 5: have really tried to replace with technology.
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  Speaker 2: It reminds me of what's the trend slow uh something
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  Speaker 2: or other?
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  Speaker 1: Slow food?
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  Speaker 2: Slow food, yeah, the whole don't order your groceries and
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  Speaker 2: have them delivered, go to the grocery store and walk
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  Speaker 2: around and get them.
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  Speaker 1: So is the friction just the it's it's a bigger task,
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  Speaker 1: more annoying, but it's better for you in the long run.
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  Speaker 1: Is that where the friction comes? Yeah, like I more
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  Speaker 1: add more to your task to get more out of it. Yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 1: two of those I kind of get that.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: Two of them annoyed me.
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  Speaker 4: One Joe pointed out earlier inviting people over without cleaning first.
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  Speaker 1: That doesn't help us proof.
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  Speaker 4: And as a female, if someone asks where are you
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  Speaker 4: and I have been murdered and no one knows where
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  Speaker 4: I am.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to be hard for me to answer. So
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  Speaker 3: I'm not turning off my location.
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  Speaker 2: Well right, and my wife and I have our locations
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  Speaker 2: on all the time, and I don't want to bother her.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah you know, Hi, what's up?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I just wanted to know where you are.
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  Speaker 1: Well you don't like those examples, that makes sense. But
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  Speaker 1: how about just the concept.
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  Speaker 3: Of I like the cookbook idea.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I can think of an idea.
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  Speaker 1: Would would it be like wash my car with a
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  Speaker 1: bucket and sponge and water instead of hire someone to
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  Speaker 1: do it. That'd be friction maxing, and that's somehow better
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  Speaker 1: for you.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of map instead of GPS talk on the
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  Speaker 3: phone versus text.
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  Speaker 1: Oh god, no, that one is so weird. And every
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  Speaker 1: time I do it, my experience maybe years of differentkatiye,
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  Speaker 1: every time I do it. Somebody called me the other
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  Speaker 1: day and I had direction, but he's oh my god.
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  Speaker 1: I was texting them something and they called me back
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  Speaker 1: instead of taking I don't I am I in a
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  Speaker 1: position to take a call here? I guess I could.
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  Speaker 1: What might they say? I don't know. I pressed the
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  Speaker 1: green button and I answered it, and he answered this
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  Speaker 1: somewhat complex question I had for him on the phone
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  Speaker 1: I had. It was fantastic. I mean it was. It
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  Speaker 1: was obviously better. It was obviously the smart thing to do.
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  Speaker 1: The fact that we were going to continue to text
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  Speaker 1: over this is insane.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, that that situation makes sense. But if you're just
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  Speaker 4: having like a random conversation and then all of a
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  Speaker 4: sudden your phone rings and you know it's gonna be
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  Speaker 4: just a shit chat, uh huh Nope, that's that's me,
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  Speaker 4: and you've cornered me.
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  Speaker 3: I feel trapped.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, how interesting? Yeah, I know what you mean, but.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and you can't let it go to voicemail. I've
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  Speaker 1: been in mentioned before.
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  Speaker 3: Do you know my phone's in my hand?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I'm free enough to text, but you
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  Speaker 2: can't talk to me.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I have trapped you. I'm in surgery right now.
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  Speaker 1: I was texting. But you know, I totally.
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  Speaker 2: Get that and get a new Kenny.
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  Speaker 1: I was texting it right before I went into surgery.
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  Speaker 1: They're cutting on me right now. I'll talk to you later.
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  Speaker 2: Click. But that feeling of dress this is some I'm
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  Speaker 2: serious now. That feeling of oh my god, what are
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  Speaker 2: they going to say? How long is this conversation going
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  Speaker 2: to be? That that has never existed before in the
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  Speaker 2: history of humankind? And it absolutely if you extrapolate that
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  Speaker 2: to young people being nervous and like upset and unsure
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  Speaker 2: of something that ought to be as routine as anything
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  Speaker 2: can be. That's why everybody's so stressed and unable to
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  Speaker 2: cooperate and can't order a pizza and the rest of it.
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  Speaker 2: We have let the muscles of this will be fine
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  Speaker 2: go completely lax.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we're the last generation that we'll be able to
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  Speaker 1: say this because we'll be dead, and that we won't
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  Speaker 1: be anybody left who's had this experience. But the phone
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  Speaker 1: used to ring and you'd go pick it up. You
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  Speaker 1: didn't have the slightest idea who it was or who
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  Speaker 1: they were calling for with other people, and there was
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  Speaker 1: zero nervousness or anticipation about it, like zero A girl
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  Speaker 1: called you.
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  Speaker 2: But that's a different thing.
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  Speaker 1: Now, somebody I know is it's fall phoning me and
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  Speaker 1: I know what the topic matter is. I'm so wow,
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  Speaker 1: is this a good time for a call? I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: this seems really weird.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, here's literally already communicating with them right now.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, it's so strange. I don't even know what was
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  Speaker 1: going on in my own brain, but it was some
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  Speaker 1: sort of apprehension.
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  Speaker 2: It's unhealthy as hell, it felt.
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  Speaker 1: It really is like I don't know if I felt attacked,
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  Speaker 1: but it didn't feel a little like, wow, you're really
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  Speaker 1: getting into my space here now with this.
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  Speaker 2: Guys like yeah, oh oh great, Now I've got to
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  Speaker 2: make time for you. Oh wait a minute, you're my friend.
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  Speaker 2: I hold you, dear, I love you all right, I
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  Speaker 2: texted you.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good question. That is so weird. And again
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  Speaker 1: those of us who can only compare the past to
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  Speaker 1: now will be gone and everybody else would just think, well,
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  Speaker 1: this is way it's always been. I've always been scared
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  Speaker 1: to death of any communication with all other people.
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  Speaker 3: You've got your phone me, Why are you calling.
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  Speaker 2: The hell?
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  Speaker 1: Very funny Michael.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Although the kids increasing numbers are putting down their phones.
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  Speaker 2: That is a serious trend among the young. I think
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  Speaker 2: there is at least some hope that the absolutely inescapable,
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  Speaker 2: unhealthiness of the whole smartphone thing is making an impression
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  Speaker 2: on people and they're realizing it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I got one kid that thankfully is perfectly okay with,
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  Speaker 1: you know, walking up to the person at the restaurant
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  Speaker 1: and ordering the food and all this, because I can't
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  Speaker 1: understand why that bothers somebody. But I got another kid
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  Speaker 1: that's like a lot of young people today, it's like,
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  Speaker 1: how can you order for me? I just I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to. I don't feel like I'm in the mood
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  Speaker 1: after yeah, to go up there and say I'd like
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  Speaker 1: a quarter pounds of cheese and fries. Okay. But I
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  Speaker 1: know I know some I know some full on grown
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  Speaker 1: ups with like jobs that pay the rent that really
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  Speaker 1: hate the idea of having a walk up there and
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  Speaker 1: order a cheeseburger. I don't know what we're doing to ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: M hmmm. It's like, did you get attacked once you
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  Speaker 1: ordered cheeseburger and then came over to the.
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  Speaker 2: Registry, just came right over the counter, you mother. These
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  Speaker 2: poor kids will never know what it was like to
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  Speaker 2: make a good crank call.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I guess that's it.