Latest / The You Project / #2225 Perv Glasses and Glassholes - Patrick Bonello
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Do you reckon we can start the show? We're already starting.
- 0:03Speaker 1: I'll just leave this in. Hi, everyone.
- 0:05Speaker 2: Patrick and I are comparing T-shirts.
- 0:07Speaker 1: I'm wearing Star Wars and he's wearing a NASA shirt
- 0:11Speaker 1: and he selfishly is wearing a fucking black musclehead bogan singlet.
- 0:17Speaker 2: Like the musclehead bogan that she is.
- 0:20Speaker 3: I was a bit worried because we just ripped our
- 0:22Speaker 3: tops apart and showed our logos and I thought for
- 0:25Speaker 3: a second that she was going to– yeah, anyway, let's
- 0:27Speaker 3: not go there.
- 0:28Speaker 4: I don't have any logos to show.
- 0:30Speaker 5: No. Oh, so many things.
- 0:34Speaker 1: You opened the door, Patrick, and that is like we're
- 0:37Speaker 1: 12 seconds in. Can we just– can we not– what
- 0:41Speaker 1: about you two before we pressed go? Tiff was– Tiff,
- 0:47Speaker 1: why don't you tell everybody what you said?
- 0:49Speaker 4: I don't want to tell anyone.
- 0:51Speaker 3: Yeah. It had to do with the placement of our
- 0:55Speaker 3: Zoom screens, and let me put it this way, Craig's
- 0:59Speaker 3: on the bottom.
- 1:03Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 1:04Speaker 1: No. And can I say, I didn't, I didn't even
- 1:07Speaker 1: get into the conversation. It was just Patrick and Tiff giggling.
- 1:11Speaker 2: Like fucking small children. Anyway. Hi everyone.
- 1:15Speaker 1: It's the You Project. It's Jumbo and it's Patrick and
- 1:17Speaker 1: it's Tiffany Ann. And we're just here to talk about
- 1:20Speaker 1: who the fuck knows what I'm going to be honest,
- 1:23Speaker 1: who knows what allegedly something to do with technology. Um, but,
- 1:29Speaker 1: You know, it's a very loosey-goosey kind of conversation, I'll
- 1:33Speaker 1: say that. Patrick, good morning.
- 1:35Speaker 2: How are you?
- 1:35Speaker 5: I'm pretty good.
- 1:37Speaker 3: I've got my schnauzer next to me.
- 1:38Speaker 5: He's cuddled up. I can pat him while we're chatting,
- 1:41Speaker 5: which always makes me relaxed, more relaxed.
- 1:43Speaker 1: Wow. I love you stroking your schnauzer while we talk.
- 1:46Speaker 1: I mean, there's a visual nobody needs.
- 1:50Speaker 5: You're just jealous because you don't have one to stroke.
- 1:53Speaker 2: Fucking hell, that's the hairiest schnauzer I've seen.
- 1:55Speaker 1: Tiff, how are you over there, schnauzer-less?
- 2:02Speaker 4: Apart from being schnauzer-less, I'm fabulous, yes.
- 2:06Speaker 5: She can whip it out though.
- 2:09Speaker 1: Oh, I see what you're, well, she does have another animal,
- 2:12Speaker 1: but you didn't mention that.
- 2:13Speaker 2: That would have been funnier. Yeah, and you waved that
- 2:17Speaker 2: one off, didn't you? Yeah, I did. You kind of.
- 2:20Speaker 5: In my head.
- 2:22Speaker 1: It's like you cognitively walked up, you opened the door
- 2:25Speaker 1: a bit and you went, fuck it, I can't say
- 2:27Speaker 1: anything about her feline, so I will go to the
- 2:32Speaker 1: next door, I will go to the next door and.
- 2:37Speaker 2: Come up with whip it out. But not bad. I mean,
- 2:39Speaker 2: all in under three seconds, like.
- 2:42Speaker 1: Pretty good. What do you reckon, this is just off
- 2:45Speaker 1: the back of that, what do you reckon your, this
- 2:49Speaker 1: is an impossible question slash answer, but just your vibe,
- 2:53Speaker 1: compared to when you were 20 years old, what do
- 2:57Speaker 1: you reckon your data processing speed, in other words, how
- 3:00Speaker 1: quick your brain works or slow, what do you reckon
- 3:03Speaker 1: it is to, let's say mid-20s when you're probably at
- 3:07Speaker 1: your peak, what do you reckon your data processing or
- 3:10Speaker 1: meant to be at your peak is?
- 3:12Speaker 3: What do you think, Patrick?
- 3:17Speaker 5: I know that sometimes I miss words.
- 3:20Speaker 3: I've got a very extensive vocabulary and I just throw
- 3:23Speaker 3: other words in.
- 3:24Speaker 5: How's the data processing?
- 3:26Speaker 3: I think I have so much more information in there,
- 3:29Speaker 3: so there's lots more to draw on.
- 3:31Speaker 5: So potentially, you've got this recall.
- 3:34Speaker 3: It's hard to ascertain because I'm drawing from so many
- 3:38Speaker 3: different experiences that I can just cherry-pick. Is there a
- 3:42Speaker 3: biological kind of answer to that question that you can
- 3:45Speaker 3: give us, Craig, from your study?
- 3:47Speaker 1: Not really. I mean, because it's neurology, it's your brain,
- 3:53Speaker 1: it's chemistry, it's kind of the intersection of psychology, physiology, neurobiology,
- 4:00Speaker 1: and it's a subjective assessment. There are definitely tests that
- 4:04Speaker 1: you can do, but what I'm talking about more, I guess...
- 4:09Speaker 1: which I didn't specify, but like in the moment in
- 4:11Speaker 1: the conversation, your data processing speed, Patrick, seems about 1.5
- 4:20Speaker 1: to the average person. It's like, you know, it's like
- 4:24Speaker 1: in real time, I think my data processing speed, just
- 4:28Speaker 1: because I do this all the time is talk to people.
- 4:32Speaker 1: And Tiff, I know that when you listen to podcasts,
- 4:34Speaker 1: you're like, fuck that. You listen on two, don't you? 2.0.
- 4:38Speaker 4: Sometimes.
- 4:39Speaker 2: Yeah. And I'm like that.
- 4:41Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, I really care about what you're saying,
- 4:43Speaker 1: but say it fucking faster. Come on. You know, I'm like, yeah,
- 4:48Speaker 1: I know where we're going. Just get it out though
- 4:50Speaker 1: so I can, yeah.
- 4:52Speaker 5: How does 0.5 rate on the scale? What was yours?
- 4:55Speaker 1: What would your processing speed be? This is like, this
- 4:59Speaker 1: is bro science. But the truth in what we're, well,
- 5:02Speaker 1: what I mean is we do all process data as
- 5:07Speaker 1: in inbound stimuli, things that are happening around us, whether
- 5:10Speaker 1: that's words coming from someone's face, whether it's an accident
- 5:14Speaker 1: unfolding in front of you, a situation that perhaps you
- 5:17Speaker 1: should intervene or not. Just the way that your brain
- 5:22Speaker 1: interprets the world around you and responds to the world
- 5:26Speaker 1: around you and the speed at which you do that
- 5:30Speaker 1: is what we could call data processing speed or cognitive speed.
- 5:37Speaker 1: And again, this is loosey-goosey science, but it is what happens.
- 5:42Speaker 1: But I think.
- 5:44Speaker 1: Like I've been more scared about my brain going shit
- 5:47Speaker 1: than my general body going shit because like my brain
- 5:50Speaker 1: is my tool. That's the only resource I have in
- 5:53Speaker 1: my kit bag. So one of the reasons also I
- 5:58Speaker 1: did my PhD is like just I knew that I
- 6:01Speaker 1: would have to have heavy cognitive load for quite a
- 6:04Speaker 1: long time. Yep.
- 6:07Speaker 2: I know he's looking up something.
- 6:08Speaker 1: Tiff, what do you think?
- 6:09Speaker 6: I think he's just doing a quick crossword to keep
- 6:11Speaker 6: himself sharp actually.
- 6:12Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 6:13Speaker 3: I was actually looking for an issue of National Geographic
- 6:18Speaker 3: that I recently purchased specifically about the brain. It came
- 6:23Speaker 3: out about two months ago, and it's a whole issue,
- 6:25Speaker 3: just about 100.
- 6:26Speaker 5: Things about your brain. It was amazing to read through.
- 6:30Speaker 3: But one of the most interesting things about it was
- 6:35Speaker 3: your processing of your brain.
- 6:37Speaker 5: I'm trying to recall.
- 6:38Speaker 3: The exact phrase, but effectively you– start saying it before
- 6:44Speaker 3: you think it almost. Basically, your thought process has already
- 6:49Speaker 3: delivered the chemicals to your mouth to start the lips
- 6:53Speaker 3: moving almost before you've had the conscious thought. It's a
- 6:57Speaker 3: staggeringly interesting thing, and it makes us realize how phenomenal
- 7:02Speaker 3: the supercomputer we've got sitting on our shoulders is.
- 7:05Speaker 2: A hundred percent.
- 7:07Speaker 1: And the thing is, with all the study and research
- 7:10Speaker 1: and years of exploration into the brain, nobody knows how
- 7:16Speaker 1: much we don't know, but I'm guessing it's about 98%.
- 7:19Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 7:22Speaker 3: The actual edition was called Your Brain, A User's Guide
- 7:25Speaker 3: to 100 Things You Never Knew.
- 7:27Speaker 5: And it's really good. I'm loving it. I've read it.
- 7:30Speaker 5: I've been through it cover to cover and was totally absorbed.
- 7:34Speaker 1: I think, Tiff, your communication and your presence and your
- 7:40Speaker 1: ability to focus is and hold a high-level conversation compared
- 7:48Speaker 1: to five years ago, it's like you're 20 years younger.
- 7:53Speaker 1: Like your brain seems to, in this capacity anyway, but again,
- 7:58Speaker 1: this thing is context and activity and task dependent sometimes.
- 8:04Speaker 1: If Melissa starts talking to me about tech and, as
- 8:08Speaker 1: in explaining to me what we're doing behind the scenes
- 8:10Speaker 1: with fucking building AI bots and agents. I'm just thinking
- 8:14Speaker 1: about a pie. I'm like, I want a pie. She's like,
- 8:20Speaker 1: does that make sense? I'm like, yep. I'm like, nah.
- 8:24Speaker 1: I'm not interested. So I think you've got to be interested.
- 8:27Speaker 5: How technology works. Give me a pie chart and then
- 8:29Speaker 5: section everything.
- 8:31Speaker 2: See, you came up with that quick.
- 8:35Speaker 1: All right, let's do some actual what we're here for,
- 8:39Speaker 1: which is exploring the world of tech and a bit
- 8:43Speaker 1: of science and a bit of tech regulation and wellness
- 8:46Speaker 1: and health and the whole fucking shooting match we do
- 8:49Speaker 1: here at no extra cost. We chuck in all the
- 8:52Speaker 1: non-tech stuff, which also equals no extra cost.
- 8:57Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 8:59Speaker 1: I feel like haven't we flogged smart glasses, Patrick? I
- 9:02Speaker 1: feel like we've spoken about them 20 times.
- 9:04Speaker 2: Is there something new?
- 9:06Speaker 1: Yes.
- 9:07Speaker 3: Countries are trying to ban them. Legislation's going in. Meta
- 9:11Speaker 3: claims it's going to be able to brick smart glasses
- 9:15Speaker 3: where people try to obscure the little light that indicates
- 9:18Speaker 3: whether they're recording or not.
- 9:20Speaker 5: So if you try to cover over the light.
- 9:23Speaker 3: Sensor, so if I'm wearing some smart glasses, we're in
- 9:26Speaker 3: a room together and I surreptitiously try recording, a little
- 9:29Speaker 3: light should come on next to the camera. But of course,
- 9:35Speaker 3: people have got around that by texturing over it or
- 9:38Speaker 3: covering it with a sticker so they can't see when
- 9:40Speaker 3: you're recording.
- 9:42Speaker 5: See, I'm in two minds about this whole thing.
- 9:45Speaker 3: My biggest challenge is how many people, they're calling them
- 9:48Speaker 3: perv glasses, glass holes of people.
- 9:50Speaker 5: Who use them. But the reality of it is, for
- 9:53Speaker 5: some people, smart.
- 9:54Speaker 3: Glasses are going to be a life changer for them
- 9:57Speaker 3: to communicate in other languages, real-time translation. for people who
- 10:01Speaker 3: may have dementia to be able to navigate the world,
- 10:03Speaker 3: get reminders, for people who are vision impaired. The question
- 10:07Speaker 3: that I want to put forward is, How many people
- 10:10Speaker 3: are actually perverts who are using them to record surreptitiously?
- 10:14Speaker 3: And if they didn't have the glasses, they've got a
- 10:16Speaker 3: bloody phone on them that has a much higher resolution
- 10:19Speaker 3: and probably a better zoom and they could do the
- 10:21Speaker 3: same thing. The reality of it is we're talking about legislation,
- 10:25Speaker 3: countries blocking the sale of them all over the world
- 10:29Speaker 3: because of such a tiny little bit of the population.
- 10:31Speaker 5: Now, don't get me wrong. I want to protect people.
- 10:33Speaker 3: I don't think anybody should be recorded without their consent.
- 10:38Speaker 3: But technically, in a public place, if you are walking
- 10:40Speaker 3: down the street, Craig can take a photo of you
- 10:43Speaker 3: or record a video of you.
- 10:45Speaker 1: There's nothing- Don't put me in the conversation. It just
- 10:48Speaker 1: sounds to me like you are a perv glass owner
- 10:52Speaker 1: who's fucking defending his perviness. I don't even have smart glasses.
- 10:56Speaker 5: I don't have them. I don't own smart glasses.
- 10:59Speaker 1: And not to segue into impervious, but- What a good word. No.
- 11:05Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 11:06Speaker 1: But no, I 100% agree with you because you think
- 11:08Speaker 1: about there are so many things that we do have
- 11:11Speaker 1: that are legal that can be used for good, not bad,
- 11:17Speaker 1: not good. You know, I mean, yeah. So is it
- 11:21Speaker 1: going to happen in Australia? Do we think?
- 11:23Speaker 5: Well, who knows?
- 11:26Speaker 3: I think the Greens were moving to try to legislate
- 11:29Speaker 3: for a ban, a temporary ban on smart glasses.
- 11:32Speaker 5: The problem is that they're still flooding into the market.
- 11:35Speaker 3: We can't even stop illegal cigarettes, let alone smart glasses
- 11:38Speaker 3: and technology. So the answer to your question is probably not.
- 11:43Speaker 1: I mean, my.
- 11:44Speaker 5: builder.
- 11:44Speaker 3: I was doing a job on site, flying my drone,
- 11:47Speaker 3: doing some video recording for a builder that's.
- 11:49Speaker 5: A client of mine.
- 11:50Speaker 3: And he had a small, it looked like a, I
- 11:53Speaker 3: don't know, just a little small box, maybe the size
- 11:56Speaker 3: of a matchbox. And he said, oh, this is my
- 11:58Speaker 3: AI companion that I can use to record all my conversations.
- 12:01Speaker 3: And then it summarizes everything that I've spoken about. And
- 12:04Speaker 3: I said, well, have you been recording us? And he said, no,
- 12:07Speaker 3: I didn't. He said, but if I'm talking to a customer,
- 12:09Speaker 3: I said, well, isn't there disclosure first? Do you tell them?
- 12:12Speaker 3: that you're going to record that conversation because he could
- 12:14Speaker 3: put it in his pocket and you wouldn't know.
- 12:16Speaker 2: Same with your phone. Yeah, exactly.
- 12:18Speaker 1: You can hit record, put it in your– I mean–
- 12:21Speaker 1: Do you do that– No, I can't be bothered.
- 12:25Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 12:26Speaker 1: No, I remember everything, Patrick.
- 12:28Speaker 5: But think about the benefit of being in a meeting.
- 12:30Speaker 3: You know, once upon a time, the secretary of every
- 12:33Speaker 3: organisation I've ever been on does the hardest job. You've
- 12:36Speaker 3: got to take the notes, take the minutes. But sit
- 12:37Speaker 3: a device there, summarise the meeting. Tiff said this, Craig
- 12:41Speaker 3: seconded it, Patrick said, yeah, no problem, and it was passed.
- 12:44Speaker 3: You know, all that sort of stuff, the laborious part
- 12:46Speaker 3: of being the secretary.
- 12:48Speaker 5: I've taken notes.
- 12:49Speaker 1: Oh, see, Tiff's got one.
- 12:49Speaker 5: In front of her. Look at that. She's frantic.
- 12:52Speaker 4: She arrived yesterday.
- 12:53Speaker 1: Sorry, did I?
- 12:54Speaker 5: I mean the little box you've got. Can you tell
- 12:56Speaker 5: us what it is?
- 12:58Speaker 1: Oh, look at you.
- 12:59Speaker 2: Look at you.
- 13:00Speaker 1: You just cannot stop from opening the innuendo door. I'm
- 13:04Speaker 1: going to call you Patrick Innuendo.
- 13:08Speaker 2: You don't mind getting innuendo, do you?
- 13:10Speaker 5: Innuendo? I thought I didn't say it, but you had
- 13:15Speaker 5: to say it.
- 13:16Speaker 1: Well, that just, I mean, that was just like a
- 13:19Speaker 1: fish on the end of the line that I needed
- 13:21Speaker 1: to grab.
- 13:21Speaker 5: Yeah, you need to reel that one in. Tell us, Tiff,
- 13:24Speaker 5: about your new gadget.
- 13:25Speaker 6: Well, I'm glad you brought this up because I was
- 13:26Speaker 6: going to bring it up today because I think the
- 13:28Speaker 6: same thing.
- 13:29Speaker 4: I was like, I've got this.
- 13:30Speaker 6: It was recommended to me by one of my friends
- 13:33Speaker 6: who does a lot of coaching as well, and when
- 13:36Speaker 6: he gets coached himself, records the sessions, and he said
- 13:40Speaker 6: that you just get such a great summary. And I
- 13:42Speaker 6: was like, well, I'm getting mentoring sessions every week and
- 13:47Speaker 6: one of my frustrations is they aren't always great at
- 13:51Speaker 6: giving me the notes that I want and the to-do
- 13:55Speaker 6: from it.
- 13:55Speaker 4: So I thought, well, I'm going to try this out. But, yeah,
- 13:58Speaker 4: like what are the rules?
- 14:00Speaker 6: You can just whack it on your phone and record
- 14:02Speaker 6: every conversation and there's no– unless you're ethical, there's really no.
- 14:09Speaker 2: But you just make people aware.
- 14:11Speaker 1: With my coaching, like I started, as you know, with
- 14:14Speaker 1: seven new coaching clients two times a week last week.
- 14:18Speaker 1: So 14 new sessions a week, only for 28 days,
- 14:21Speaker 1: thank God. But they're all awesome, by the way, if
- 14:24Speaker 1: you're listening, you're all fucking awesome. But not all of them,
- 14:27Speaker 1: but some of them because it was a little bit more,
- 14:31Speaker 1: I felt the work was going to be a bit
- 14:33Speaker 1: deeper and more complicated. I said, are you okay if
- 14:36Speaker 1: I record this? Because it's on Zoom. And they're like,
- 14:39Speaker 1: of course. I go, nobody ever in the world except
- 14:42Speaker 1: me and you is going to hear it. And I
- 14:45Speaker 1: don't even listen to it. I just download that and
- 14:50Speaker 1: then turn that into a synopsis, like a dot point
- 14:53Speaker 1: of what we spoke about. And then I just go
- 14:55Speaker 1: session three with TIFF. Here's the dot points of what
- 14:58Speaker 1: we spoke about. So when I get session four, I
- 15:01Speaker 1: go look at the dot points and I'm back in
- 15:02Speaker 1: the game. I think stuff like that, when people are
- 15:05Speaker 1: aware and there's a productive, positive use for it, it's
- 15:09Speaker 1: an amazingly good tool. But I think to both of
- 15:13Speaker 1: your points, like people need to be aware that they're
- 15:16Speaker 1: being recording. Otherwise, it's a completely different thing being recorded,
- 15:20Speaker 1: I should say.
- 15:21Speaker 3: Tiff, could I just ask, can you just tell us
- 15:22Speaker 3: the name of the brand of the little recorder that
- 15:25Speaker 3: you've got, what it's about, how much it costs you?
- 15:27Speaker 4: This one, it was interesting.
- 15:28Speaker 6: There was two that looked exactly the same. I can't
- 15:31Speaker 6: even remember the other one's brand, but this one was
- 15:34Speaker 6: Hay Pocket. It was $ 200 and you can have a
- 15:39Speaker 6: free version of the subscription or a paid. I'm trialling
- 15:43Speaker 6: the paid and then I'll do the free and I'll
- 15:45Speaker 6: see what the difference is. And that is just your
- 15:47Speaker 6: summarising and the app features. The other one I believe
- 15:52Speaker 6: was less expensive to purchase outright at about $ 300- ish, $ 300
- 15:58Speaker 6: or $ 400 a year subscription. That's the one my friend uses.
- 16:02Speaker 6: But yeah, one of the other things I was interested
- 16:05Speaker 6: in is, like Craig, when I'm coaching people, often I'd
- 16:10Speaker 6: like to call them when I'm out walking the dog.
- 16:13Speaker 6: But I think, well, if I've got to write notes,
- 16:17Speaker 6: I don't want to be out missing that and getting
- 16:19Speaker 6: home and forgetting. So I was like, well, they're on
- 16:21Speaker 6: those calls. How many calls can I make when I go, hey,
- 16:23Speaker 6: I'm just going to record this for some notes and
- 16:25Speaker 6: then I can be out and about in the sunshine.
- 16:28Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure.
- 16:29Speaker 1: Can you just tell people how big that is because
- 16:32Speaker 1: people are trying to picture it maybe and I'm thinking
- 16:35Speaker 1: that is very small and slim, like it's a little bit.
- 16:39Speaker 5: It is slim.
- 16:40Speaker 4: It's probably five millimetres thick.
- 16:43Speaker 3: It stands.
- 16:45Speaker 6: Sticks like a magnet on the back of your phone.
- 16:47Speaker 6: So it's got a tiny little magnet ring that sticks
- 16:50Speaker 6: on the back of your phone. It's just over 55
- 16:52Speaker 6: centimetres wide. So it's about the size of a business card,
- 16:55Speaker 6: 55 by 90.
- 16:57Speaker 1: Half the size of your phone, yeah, that's right.
- 16:59Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah. Can I say something?
- 17:01Speaker 2: Sorry, Patrick.
- 17:02Speaker 1: When you stick that to your phone, that records from
- 17:05Speaker 1: the phone. So there's no– oh, wow, look at that.
- 17:08Speaker 1: So there's no– We probably should make that into a
- 17:12Speaker 1: reel and then people could know exactly what we're talking about.
- 17:16Speaker 2: So you don't have to plug anything. It just records.
- 17:19Speaker 1: It just records.
- 17:20Speaker 4: It's got two modes.
- 17:21Speaker 6: It's got conversation mode and then it's got call mode
- 17:24Speaker 6: and the call mode uses a contact mic, a little
- 17:27Speaker 6: bit like, I guess, your Aftershocks or your Shox headphones
- 17:32Speaker 6: that kind of a bone conductor, whatever.
- 17:35Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 17:36Speaker 3: And the thing with this too, Craig, is disclosure, it
- 17:40Speaker 3: makes life so much easier for clients you're dealing with.
- 17:43Speaker 3: And it made me recall a moment when I went
- 17:45Speaker 3: with a very dear friend of mine who's since passed away.
- 17:48Speaker 3: He was going through a cancer journey and he was
- 17:51Speaker 3: going to a specialist who was diagnosing his second cancer.
- 17:55Speaker 3: And he said, oh, I've got so much going on
- 17:57Speaker 3: in my head. Can you come with me so you
- 17:59Speaker 3: can remember what the specialist said? Now, people going to
- 18:03Speaker 3: medical appointments, if you're a single person and you don't
- 18:05Speaker 3: have a spouse or you go in and suddenly the
- 18:08Speaker 3: doctor says this, this, this, this, this, your emotions are
- 18:11Speaker 3: running high to be able to have that recall and say, okay,
- 18:14Speaker 3: this is what I need to do for the treatment
- 18:16Speaker 3: or this is where I need to go next. I've
- 18:17Speaker 3: got to go to Peter McCallum and I've got to
- 18:18Speaker 3: do whatever it happens to be. But that's where- Again,
- 18:22Speaker 3: the use of this technology, whether it's smart glasses, because
- 18:25Speaker 3: one of the other things, there's a lovely story that
- 18:27Speaker 3: I saw from the UK in The Guardian about a
- 18:30Speaker 3: guy who is visually impaired and his smart glasses have
- 18:36Speaker 3: changed his world for him. He can now use the
- 18:39Speaker 3: smart glasses to describe what is going on around him,
- 18:43Speaker 3: the direction that he's moving in to navigate. He just
- 18:47Speaker 3: gave this beautiful story about about how his whole world
- 18:50Speaker 3: has changed, being totally blind and now using these smart glasses. So,
- 18:54Speaker 3: you know, it's again, I really feel frustrated. You know
- 18:57Speaker 3: what it's like, Tiff? It's like the dog walker who
- 19:00Speaker 3: doesn't clean up his dog's poo. I clean up after
- 19:04Speaker 3: my dog. There's one person in Belan who I swear
- 19:07Speaker 3: never cleans up after their dog.
- 19:09Speaker 2: What are their names?
- 19:10Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 19:10Speaker 5: What's his name? I haven't found the mysterious Pua.
- 19:13Speaker 3: But what it does is it makes all us other
- 19:15Speaker 3: dog walkers, all us other dog owners look bad because
- 19:18Speaker 3: of one person who doesn't clean up after their dog.
- 19:21Speaker 5: And that's what it's like with Perv Glasses.
- 19:24Speaker 1: So you walk past that poo, you don't clean it up.
- 19:26Speaker 3: I'm not cleaning up some other dog's poo. It's like
- 19:28Speaker 3: changing someone else's kid's nappy. Like this is, you know,
- 19:32Speaker 3: personal stuff.
- 19:32Speaker 5: It's okay. Little Fritzy's okay.
- 19:34Speaker 6: And there's something about, you know, when you pick up
- 19:37Speaker 6: your dog poo and then you get the second bit
- 19:40Speaker 6: and it's cold and you go, oh, that wasn't my dog's.
- 19:43Speaker 1: Oh, can you two stop? Do you want no listeners?
- 19:48Speaker 1: Half of our listeners are just chomping into their fucking
- 19:51Speaker 1: breakfast and spewing a bit in their own mouth. What
- 19:55Speaker 1: is wrong with you? Do you not have any social awareness? Oh,
- 19:59Speaker 1: let's talk about– and when you pick up and there's
- 20:01Speaker 1: a warm bit of poo and then there's a cold
- 20:03Speaker 1: bit of poo, no one wants to hear that.
- 20:06Speaker 5: Tiff.
- 20:06Speaker 1: Edit that shit out. On a really cold day, do
- 20:09Speaker 1: you just hold– Oh, shut up.
- 20:10Speaker 5: I do.
- 20:11Speaker 6: I do.
- 20:11Speaker 2: It's so warm.
- 20:13Speaker 1: Oh.
- 20:14Speaker 4: I'm like, I'm just going to wait till the next bin.
- 20:15Speaker 2: Oh, because it keeps your hand warm?
- 20:18Speaker 6: Yes.
- 20:20Speaker 1: Oh, it's like poo gloves. It's like thermal poo warming.
- 20:26Speaker 1: You could do a whole thesis on that, Tiff.
- 20:30Speaker 2: Fucking hell.
- 20:31Speaker 5: Sorry, everyone, if you're eating your breakfast or lunch.
- 20:35Speaker 2: Patrick, I love this story.
- 20:38Speaker 1: Sydney abuser jailed after remotely controlling.
- 20:44Speaker 3: Well, okay, not necessarily controlling the Tesla, but basically.
- 20:48Speaker 2: That's exactly what you wrote. So I just read out
- 20:51Speaker 2: what you wrote.
- 20:52Speaker 1: Like, don't give me a sentence and then tell me
- 20:56Speaker 1: I got it wrong when I read out your own
- 20:58Speaker 1: fucking words.
- 21:00Speaker 2: That's the ultimate in bullshit.
- 21:03Speaker 5: Yeah, it is, isn't it? It's called clickbait, you know? Clickbait.
- 21:08Speaker 2: Yeah, and then you'd tell me off for reading what
- 21:10Speaker 2: you wrote.
- 21:11Speaker 5: You were baited.
- 21:12Speaker 1: Correct me.
- 21:13Speaker 3: Okay, so the court findings revealed that what this guy
- 21:17Speaker 3: tried to do to his partner was activate... Well, he
- 21:20Speaker 3: did try to take over the car using valet mode.
- 21:23Speaker 3: So while she was driving... So it basically throttled the
- 21:26Speaker 3: car to a maximum speed of 40K on a really
- 21:30Speaker 3: fast road. So, yeah, effectively, he took over control of
- 21:33Speaker 3: the car by trying to throttle it down into that
- 21:37Speaker 3: valet mode. If you can take over that remote, I mean,
- 21:42Speaker 3: it's a frightening thought that somebody could do that to
- 21:45Speaker 3: get into your vehicle while you're driving it effectively. I mean,
- 21:49Speaker 3: he's been given, he was penalized initially $ 450, 000 in 2017.
- 21:52Speaker 5: For mistreating other workers. So this guy is not a
- 21:55Speaker 5: nice bloke.
- 22:00Speaker 3: And so he's got a, you know, his profile has been,
- 22:04Speaker 3: I guess, you know, really clearly put down in black
- 22:08Speaker 3: and white.
- 22:08Speaker 5: He's not a nice bloke.
- 22:09Speaker 3: And now it's been revealed that, you know, this guy
- 22:12Speaker 3: has claimed that he did these awful things to his
- 22:18Speaker 3: former partner to try to track her, to harass her
- 22:22Speaker 3: and effectively even try to endanger her by throttling the car.
- 22:27Speaker 2: It seems to.
- 22:28Speaker 1: Me a very likely and very logical progression, not a
- 22:32Speaker 1: good progression. Maybe it's a regression of sorts that because,
- 22:37Speaker 1: you know, cars are becoming more and more computer and
- 22:41Speaker 1: less car, so to speak that, I mean, if you
- 22:45Speaker 1: can get into other people's accounts and hack people's stuff, then,
- 22:50Speaker 1: you know, it's, it's only a matter of time before
- 22:53Speaker 1: people start and they, I mean, it's been suggested that
- 22:56Speaker 1: some high-profile people who knew things that some governments didn't
- 23:02Speaker 1: want them to know, this is exactly what happened to them.
- 23:05Speaker 2: Like, that's the theory.
- 23:07Speaker 1: People with no depression or know anything driving off the
- 23:11Speaker 1: road and into trees or into rivers.
- 23:15Speaker 2: But, I mean, how do we stop that?
- 23:17Speaker 1: If a car is becoming more and more tech-dependent, how
- 23:21Speaker 1: do we stop it from being hacked? I know there's
- 23:24Speaker 1: no answer right now to that, but it's an interesting thought.
- 23:27Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 23:28Speaker 1: Well, it is, yeah.
- 23:29Speaker 3: As more autonomous control is brought in and less driver control,
- 23:34Speaker 3: there's that possibility that it could be taken over. I
- 23:38Speaker 3: don't know what the answer is. Go and buy a
- 23:41Speaker 3: secondhand car.
- 23:43Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 23:43Speaker 1: Yeah. Get yourself a bloody.
- 23:47Speaker 1: What's that thing you've got sitting out? So Nissan, what
- 23:50Speaker 1: is it?
- 23:50Speaker 5: I sold it.
- 23:51Speaker 3: I sold it two weeks ago. My little Nissan NXR coupe.
- 23:55Speaker 3: I had it for 31 years.
- 23:55Speaker 5: I drove it 500,000 kilometers. And I made the decision
- 24:00Speaker 5: to let it go.
- 24:01Speaker 1: Wow.
- 24:03Speaker 5: And I basically gave it away.
- 24:06Speaker 1: Just to push it out of the automotive nest and
- 24:08Speaker 1: let it fly one more time.
- 24:10Speaker 5: I'll tell you what, though.
- 24:11Speaker 3: I was pretty excited because I've only driven it once
- 24:14Speaker 3: since COVID and charged it up and.
- 24:17Speaker 5: It purred like a little kitten. It was beautiful. Wow.
- 24:21Speaker 1: Yeah. And who did you sell it to?
- 24:23Speaker 5: A guy who owns a pizza shop. Does a bit
- 24:27Speaker 5: of gardening as well.
- 24:28Speaker 3: I'd met him through a friend and he saw the
- 24:30Speaker 3: car and thought, man, that's awesome. Offered me a ridiculously
- 24:33Speaker 3: small amount for it. And I thought, that's just rude.
- 24:36Speaker 3: And then I thought about it a bit more and
- 24:38Speaker 3: added an extra 500 bucks to it and said, you
- 24:40Speaker 3: know what? Yeah, just take it. I think I was
- 24:42Speaker 3: happy for it to go to a good home. 31
- 24:44Speaker 3: years is a long time. It was my second car,
- 24:46Speaker 3: but it was a great little car, little T-top. So
- 24:48Speaker 3: the roof sections came off.
- 24:50Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a good car.
- 24:51Speaker 1: I liked it.
- 24:52Speaker 2: But you're also paying rego and insurance on it.
- 24:55Speaker 5: Well, no, this year I decided to drop. I had
- 24:57Speaker 5: on club.
- 24:58Speaker 3: Plates, so reduced registration, which was really good. I was
- 25:01Speaker 3: a member of the Nissan Car Club, but decided to
- 25:04Speaker 3: let it lapse. And I thought I'm paying insurance on
- 25:06Speaker 3: a car I'm not driving. So that's why I made
- 25:08Speaker 3: the decision to.
- 25:09Speaker 5: Let it go. But yeah. But you're right.
- 25:13Speaker 3: You could buy a secondhand car that doesn't have all
- 25:15Speaker 3: the bells and whistles. But, you know, I think about
- 25:18Speaker 3: the safety features in cars too. Lane assist and adaptive
- 25:21Speaker 3: cruise control that I love. Heads-up display, HUD.
- 25:24Speaker 5: Remember that, Craigo?
- 25:25Speaker 3: HUD.
- 25:26Speaker 1: Oh, sure do. Sure do.
- 25:27Speaker 5: Yeah, I love my heads-up display. I couldn't drive a
- 25:30Speaker 5: car without HUD.
- 25:32Speaker 1: Yeah, I just got rid of my fancy car that
- 25:35Speaker 1: basically did everything for you because I felt like I
- 25:37Speaker 1: was a passenger in my own car.
- 25:40Speaker 2: And now I'm back in my.
- 25:41Speaker 1: High-performance, super-duper Suzuki Swift 2019 chick magnet. I mean, I
- 25:47Speaker 1: tell you what, when I drive up Hampton Street, what
- 25:51Speaker 1: I would like to say now is so funny, but
- 25:53Speaker 1: I can't.
- 25:55Speaker 5: I can't. I can't.
- 25:57Speaker 1: No, I can't. No, no, I would definitely get in trouble,
- 26:00Speaker 1: but you two would do a wee in your pants.
- 26:02Speaker 4: Made a note to check in after the show.
- 26:04Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 26:05Speaker 2: I know you did.
- 26:07Speaker 1: I don't know what this means, which is why I
- 26:09Speaker 1: want to ask you about it because it seems interesting.
- 26:13Speaker 1: Alex Gibney's four-hour documentary shakes Elon Musk at Venice. Could
- 26:19Speaker 1: you explain what that sentence means?
- 26:22Speaker 3: Well, Alex Gibney is a documentary producer, and he followed
- 26:30Speaker 3: Musk for a long time in terms of just documenting,
- 26:34Speaker 3: looking at lots of footage of things that he's said
- 26:38Speaker 3: over the years, interviewed particularly one of Musk's I think
- 26:44Speaker 3: you'd call ex-wives. And he's doing this expose that was
- 26:48Speaker 3: launched at the Venice Film Festival.
- 26:51Speaker 5: And it's evidently Musk is kind of really ropeable about this.
- 26:55Speaker 5: But wait for this.
- 26:56Speaker 3: He offered Ashley Sinclair, he does this big expose in
- 27:01Speaker 3: the interview, and he offered her something like $ 60 million
- 27:05Speaker 3: to not talk to him. massive about 40 million US
- 27:12Speaker 3: dollars so about 60 million Australian dollars he offered her
- 27:15Speaker 3: to do an NDA and not to speak and that's
- 27:20Speaker 3: how rattled he was about his life story or elements
- 27:24Speaker 3: of him coming out in this documentary so that's that's
- 27:27Speaker 3: the reported information it was um an article in a
- 27:32Speaker 3: publication called Futurism. But, you know, this guy, Alex Gibney,
- 27:36Speaker 3: he's done a four-hour documentary. I don't know that I
- 27:39Speaker 3: could sit and watch anything for four hours about it.
- 27:41Speaker 1: Also, I mean, like, it might be true, it might
- 27:45Speaker 1: be bullshit, it might be a bit of both, but
- 27:47Speaker 1: even let's assume it's all true. like if it wasn't
- 27:51Speaker 1: Elon Musk, nobody would want, like he's riding on his
- 27:55Speaker 1: fame and notoriety. He's probably the most well-known person on
- 28:00Speaker 1: the planet, almost. Like there ain't many people in the
- 28:03Speaker 1: world who don't know who he is. And he's using
- 28:06Speaker 1: that as leverage to get his documentary scene. And I
- 28:10Speaker 1: don't know, it's like, okay, why do we all need
- 28:13Speaker 1: to know what, he did or didn't do.
- 28:16Speaker 3: Well, one of the things is, I guess the thing
- 28:19Speaker 3: is he's out there. He's the richest person on the
- 28:21Speaker 3: planet and he influences so much of our society.
- 28:25Speaker 1: Yeah, but they don't know what's going on behind closed doors.
- 28:29Speaker 1: I'm not saying he's done good or bad at all.
- 28:31Speaker 1: I'm just saying that's cool, but that's all the public
- 28:34Speaker 1: stuff influences them. So now we're going to dig up
- 28:37Speaker 1: all these secrets and make that public. Well, that's not
- 28:40Speaker 1: his choice.
- 28:41Speaker 5: No, but people love that. Exactly. Yeah, that's why reality
- 28:45Speaker 5: TV is so popular. That's why people listen to your podcast.
- 28:49Speaker 1: Well, this is not reality TV.
- 28:52Speaker 5: Oh, it's not far off.
- 28:54Speaker 1: This is like fucking food for your brain.
- 28:57Speaker 6: Is it?
- 28:58Speaker 5: This is like, oh, yeah.
- 29:00Speaker 1: Do you know how smart our listeners are now?
- 29:03Speaker 5: Well, they got smarter after listening to you.
- 29:06Speaker 1: Of course they did. They're all fucking dummies at the start.
- 29:09Speaker 1: Now they're all professors.
- 29:10Speaker 3: I'm just going to take myself out of this conversation
- 29:13Speaker 3: because I don't think that way.
- 29:15Speaker 5: Of course.
- 29:16Speaker 1: Cause, cause you want to fucking, they know that I'm joking.
- 29:21Speaker 2: That's the difference. That's called fuck. This is the thing
- 29:24Speaker 2: in 2026.
- 29:25Speaker 1: You've got, you say something funny, then you've got to
- 29:27Speaker 1: go put an asterisk and go, by the way, everybody,
- 29:30Speaker 1: I didn't actually mean that.
- 29:31Speaker 2: That's called humor.
- 29:32Speaker 1: Yeah. Here's the disclaimer. Here's the human disclaimer. It's like, fuck,
- 29:36Speaker 1: that's where we're at now. Well, the fact that you
- 29:38Speaker 1: can swear, that's good.
- 29:39Speaker 5: I mean, good for you. I mean, you like yourself.
- 29:42Speaker 1: I tell you what, if people were bothered by swearing,
- 29:44Speaker 1: they would have stopped listening 2,000 episodes ago. Yeah. And
- 29:51Speaker 1: it's funny because I get newbies, people who have obviously
- 29:54Speaker 1: just jumped on and then subsequently probably jumped out, who
- 29:58Speaker 1: still send me emails saying, saying something like, oh, for
- 30:02Speaker 1: a person who's allegedly got some intelligence, you don't speak
- 30:07Speaker 1: like an intelligent person. I'm like, thanks, Dave.
- 30:10Speaker 2: All the best.
- 30:11Speaker 1: Yeah. And fuck you, Dave. You don't like swearing? Don't swear.
- 30:16Speaker 2: I'm fucking great at it. I excel at it.
- 30:20Speaker 3: Sometimes you just need to drop the F-bomb because it
- 30:23Speaker 3: just seems like the right word to use at the time.
- 30:25Speaker 1: I tell you what, I've heard a few people drop
- 30:27Speaker 1: the F-bomb that you would never pick because they never
- 30:30Speaker 1: would publicly, but behind the public door.
- 30:33Speaker 5: Do you reckon the Queen did?
- 30:34Speaker 3: No. No.
- 30:37Speaker 5: On behalf of my husband and I, fuck.
- 30:41Speaker 1: I knew you were setting yourself up to do a
- 30:44Speaker 1: bloody impression then. Because I've heard the Queen four times.
- 30:47Speaker 1: I'll go, here we go. The Queen's coming. But I
- 30:51Speaker 1: will say I'm not mad at it. So anytime you
- 30:53Speaker 1: want to drop the Queen in, I think it's good.
- 30:55Speaker 1: Dolly Parton's sister denounces inundation of posthumous AI tributes. There
- 31:03Speaker 1: have been a lot of. There have been a lot
- 31:06Speaker 1: of Dolly tributes, I will say, even though that shouldn't
- 31:10Speaker 1: fall in my algorithm, whatever that means, Patrick. They've been
- 31:14Speaker 1: popping up all over. Yes, it appears that Dolly Parton.
- 31:20Speaker 5: Has now been the subject of many, many tributes and
- 31:24Speaker 5: not all of them have been authentic.
- 31:27Speaker 2: That sounds better than your real voice.
- 31:28Speaker 1: You should do that.
- 31:30Speaker 5: So, yeah, I get this.
- 31:32Speaker 3: It would be very upsetting for the family to suddenly
- 31:35Speaker 3: have people doing video selfies of Dolly Parton.
- 31:38Speaker 5: That don't exist.
- 31:40Speaker 1: Ah, I didn't.
- 31:42Speaker 2: Oh, that's what she means.
- 31:43Speaker 5: That's what she means.
- 31:44Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 31:44Speaker 5: So she's calling it fake AI garbage.
- 31:48Speaker 3: And look, some of them might just be different scenarios
- 31:51Speaker 3: involving Dolly Parton, but if they're not authentic, they're not her.
- 31:55Speaker 3: And that's the thing that she's struggling with.
- 31:57Speaker 5: They're grieving. The family's grieving.
- 32:00Speaker 3: And how would you be if on your Insta, you
- 32:02Speaker 3: keep getting these videos that that were not real of
- 32:05Speaker 3: your sister who's just died so i can understand my
- 32:08Speaker 3: family is is you know pretty upset about it.
- 32:11Speaker 1: Yeah it's somewhat insensitive and self-indulgent negatistical when you're pretending
- 32:18Speaker 1: that you got a photo taken with uh dolly australia
- 32:22Speaker 1: proposes opt out with 10 with 109.2 million in fines
- 32:29Speaker 1: what does that mean proposes algorithm opt out it's This.
- 32:34Speaker 3: Has caused a massive, massive rebuttal from the Trump administration.
- 32:40Speaker 3: This is an interesting one. It's causing a lot of
- 32:42Speaker 3: heat at the moment. At the moment, do you remember
- 32:44Speaker 3: what it was like on social media in the good
- 32:47Speaker 3: old days where Mark Zuckerberg said, you can just connect
- 32:50Speaker 3: with your friends? And then when you went on Facebook,
- 32:52Speaker 3: I could see what Tiff was doing. I could see
- 32:54Speaker 3: what Craig was doing. And you didn't get all the
- 32:56Speaker 3: other crap coming up. that kind of tried to keep
- 32:59Speaker 3: you on board. So originally, social media was connecting socially
- 33:02Speaker 3: with people that you knew and your friends and that
- 33:04Speaker 3: sort of stuff.
- 33:04Speaker 5: And that's all that came up in your feed.
- 33:06Speaker 3: We now know that that's not the case, that the
- 33:09Speaker 3: sinister algorithm is throwing all this crap out.
- 33:12Speaker 5: But not only that.
- 33:13Speaker 3: Sometimes the stuff that comes out that's being shown to
- 33:17Speaker 3: young people is inappropriate. There's a lot of fake content
- 33:21Speaker 3: on there. And so the federal government in Australia is
- 33:25Speaker 3: now trying to bring out what they call a digital
- 33:29Speaker 3: duty of care legislation to try to give you the
- 33:32Speaker 3: option as a person using social media to turn off
- 33:35Speaker 3: the algorithm. So you have an option to switch the
- 33:39Speaker 3: algorithm off and not get all the stuff. Some people
- 33:42Speaker 3: may want to keep it on there. Some people may
- 33:43Speaker 3: like to see cat videos.
- 33:45Speaker 1: That's great.
- 33:46Speaker 3: But the reality of it is you can't turn off
- 33:49Speaker 3: the algorithm. You can't go past the crap. And this
- 33:52Speaker 3: is what– so basically it's called the MyFeedMyWay statutory framework. Now,
- 33:58Speaker 3: this has been presented, and they're talking about two things.
- 34:02Speaker 3: One is– getting the new technology in place, forcing Meta
- 34:05Speaker 3: and all those companies with social media to be able
- 34:07Speaker 3: to initiate this. And the second aspect is, if they
- 34:11Speaker 3: don't do it, to propose really big fines, fines of
- 34:14Speaker 3: over $ 100 million if that can't be put in place.
- 34:19Speaker 1: So they're called civil penalties.
- 34:21Speaker 5: Now, this is.
- 34:23Speaker 3: This has caused a major uproar in the US because
- 34:27Speaker 3: the Trump administration has now come out and basically said, well,
- 34:30Speaker 3: you can't do this. And you're actually, you know, extorting
- 34:35Speaker 3: through their social media finds. So Donald Trump's come out
- 34:38Speaker 3: and he's issued what they call like basically diplomatic and
- 34:41Speaker 3: economic challenges saying that, you know, she's trying to put
- 34:45Speaker 3: Australian government under pressure and condemning the proposal. He's saying
- 34:49Speaker 3: that the The media fines are discriminatory. They're extorting the
- 34:53Speaker 3: American technology enterprises. So Trump is coming out and hitting
- 34:57Speaker 3: back at this. And he's saying that basically these idea
- 35:01Speaker 3: of fines are basically extortion.
- 35:05Speaker 2: Wowza.
- 35:06Speaker 1: Wowzer.
- 35:07Speaker 2: I wish I didn't ask.
- 35:08Speaker 6: All right. I wish the listeners could have seen the
- 35:11Speaker 6: two enormous yawns that Hans did in the.
- 35:14Speaker 5: Middle of that. He's so fucking rude. See, that's rude.
- 35:17Speaker 1: I'm not.
- 35:18Speaker 2: That was my body. I was trying to stop.
- 35:21Speaker 1: My body, but my face just went open and a
- 35:23Speaker 1: yawn happened.
- 35:24Speaker 5: My face just went open.
- 35:25Speaker 2: No, but other than that, I was fucking captivated. That
- 35:30Speaker 2: was like a Disney movie times two. I love you.
- 35:37Speaker 1: Tiff, I have a question without notice. That's not true.
- 35:42Speaker 1: I just gave you notice. Here's the notice. Here's the question.
- 35:48Speaker 1: So last week or something, I think you quite terrifyingly
- 35:55Speaker 1: lifted up your arm at me like you were going
- 35:57Speaker 1: to squirt something out of your armpit, like a fucking
- 36:00Speaker 1: some kind of weird spider but you were revealing that
- 36:05Speaker 1: you have a new blood glucose monitor on there it
- 36:08Speaker 1: is see.
- 36:08Speaker 2: Patrick that's exactly what she did.
- 36:11Speaker 1: Doesn't it now we all went through the traumas of
- 36:14Speaker 1: the first and second one and how you thought you
- 36:16Speaker 1: were dying and then we found out that the machine
- 36:20Speaker 1: itself was fucked and giving you faulty data what's the
- 36:24Speaker 1: status with the new one.
- 36:26Speaker 6: Well, it has been a fascinating experiment and let me
- 36:29Speaker 6: just set it up with everybody for the reason that
- 36:32Speaker 6: I am trying it again is because two to three
- 36:35Speaker 6: months ago, tracking my food and learned that, are you
- 36:39Speaker 6: yawning again?
- 36:40Speaker 4: Fucking hell, Harps.
- 36:41Speaker 3: Sorry.
- 36:41Speaker 4: This is riveting.
- 36:43Speaker 5: Oh, my God. You know what? Fritz yawned at the
- 36:45Speaker 5: same time that Craig yawned. That's a sympathetic yawn, isn't it?
- 36:49Speaker 1: I don't know if he was watching me, otherwise just
- 36:51Speaker 1: a coincidence and I could be a schnauzer.
- 36:56Speaker 2: Sorry, Tiff, that was unmorrented.
- 36:57Speaker 1: It was totally justified with Patrick's fucking rant. But with you,
- 37:02Speaker 1: I apologise.
- 37:04Speaker 2: You go on.
- 37:05Speaker 6: Three months ago, tracking my food for the first time
- 37:08Speaker 6: like this realised grossly under eating carbs for my, especially
- 37:13Speaker 6: for my output and activity.
- 37:16Speaker 4: So after changing that.
- 37:18Speaker 6: I thought wouldn't it be an interesting experiment to see
- 37:22Speaker 6: if there is a change in the data that the
- 37:24Speaker 6: continuous glucose monitor gives me. And interestingly, I've had it
- 37:29Speaker 6: on four nights now, I'd only had one very brief,
- 37:34Speaker 6: very small dip, not even very low overnight.
- 37:38Speaker 4: Except for last night.
- 37:39Speaker 6: Last night I did have three dips, but every other
- 37:42Speaker 6: night I've stayed in range, which has been quite fascinating.
- 37:48Speaker 1: Can we ask, that is interesting, can we ask what
- 37:51Speaker 1: brand or what Well, so I could do this, but
- 37:55Speaker 1: why don't you do it? Tell people who maybe didn't
- 37:59Speaker 1: hear the first round of conversation. Obviously, I would say 70%
- 38:05Speaker 1: of our listeners already know what this is, but for
- 38:07Speaker 1: the 30% who are going, what does it do?
- 38:10Speaker 2: What's that for? Why would we do that? Give us
- 38:12Speaker 2: a little bit of.
- 38:13Speaker 1: The reasoning or a little bit of the science behind it.
- 38:18Speaker 6: Yeah, so continuous glucose monitors are essentially a tool that
- 38:22Speaker 6: is usually used by diabetics to monitor your glucose continuously.
- 38:29Speaker 6: I've got a type 1 diabetic client. She's actually got
- 38:31Speaker 6: that and an insulin pump, so now that regulates her
- 38:35Speaker 6: blood sugars in real time rather than her needing to
- 38:39Speaker 6: do tests and get the data.
- 38:42Speaker 1: How amazing is that? So it measures your blood glucose.
- 38:48Speaker 1: And if you are below where you should be, it
- 38:51Speaker 1: just gives you.
- 38:51Speaker 2: A little bit of insulin.
- 38:54Speaker 6: Yeah, which is incredible. She had adult onset type 1 diabetes.
- 38:59Speaker 2: Well, above where you should be, I'm saying.
- 39:01Speaker 1: Sorry.
- 39:02Speaker 2: Yep, go on.
- 39:03Speaker 6: Yeah, and she has quite a turbulent time with it.
- 39:08Speaker 6: And she first had the pump installed. Sorry, this is
- 39:11Speaker 6: a bit of a tangent you probably didn't ask for,
- 39:14Speaker 6: hence the big yawn again.
- 39:15Speaker 2: She.
- 39:18Speaker 4: Had quite a turbulent time with it.
- 39:19Speaker 6: She had the first pump installed earlier this year, had
- 39:23Speaker 6: a lot of dramas with that, had the second installation,
- 39:26Speaker 6: but the blood sugar.
- 39:31Speaker 6: Monitoring and control is quite a high percentage.
- 39:36Speaker 4: I can't remember the numbers.
- 39:36Speaker 6: Quite a high percentage better than her doing it manually,
- 39:39Speaker 6: which for her longevity and for her health is huge.
- 39:43Speaker 5: Wow.
- 39:45Speaker 6: She can't believe it because she was like, they're a life-saving,
- 39:48Speaker 6: accurate device. They cannot fail. And I had, first I
- 39:51Speaker 6: tried the, I think it's called Freestyle Libra, I think
- 39:55Speaker 6: is the brand of the first one I used.
- 39:58Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 39:58Speaker 6: And it recorded sometimes a completely overnight low, like down
- 40:04Speaker 6: to two point something. So you should be, I think
- 40:08Speaker 6: 3.9 is where you dip into.
- 40:10Speaker 4: Low blood sugar.
- 40:12Speaker 1: Yep.
- 40:12Speaker 6: And I had multiple dips and sometimes they stayed low
- 40:15Speaker 6: for much of the night, which was a bit concerning.
- 40:18Speaker 6: You can get misreads when you sleep on the sensor.
- 40:21Speaker 6: So if it's pressured and if you're a little bit leaner,
- 40:24Speaker 6: I think it can be a little bit more inaccurate
- 40:28Speaker 6: at times or more prone for those misreads if you're
- 40:32Speaker 6: leaning on it. And I then tried a Dexcom. Dexcom
- 40:36Speaker 6: One is the brand and that was doing a similar thing.
- 40:39Speaker 4: This was a year ago.
- 40:40Speaker 6: And this time I've got a Dexcom again. And, yeah,
- 40:43Speaker 6: it's been really interesting. So I'm not sure last night
- 40:47Speaker 6: if I did sleep on that side or what might
- 40:50Speaker 6: have caused that, but every other night has been really stable. Yeah.
- 40:58Speaker 2: Yes, Patrick, with your hand up. Yes, Patrick, in the
- 41:01Speaker 2: third row.
- 41:01Speaker 4: Green again. Yes, Your Majesty.
- 41:04Speaker 5: I'm not going to do the voice again. Hey, Tiff,
- 41:06Speaker 5: does it pierce the skin? Yes.
- 41:08Speaker 3: Is it constantly monitoring the blood flow and so it's
- 41:10Speaker 3: sampling your blood in real time?
- 41:13Speaker 4: Yes, yes, yep.
- 41:15Speaker 5: Wow.
- 41:16Speaker 6: Yeah. It's funny because you put it on and it's
- 41:19Speaker 6: got a little kind of a plastic casing and you
- 41:23Speaker 6: click it in and it's not until you take it
- 41:25Speaker 6: out and you realise how big that little needle is
- 41:29Speaker 6: that's stuck in your arm, you don't feel it because
- 41:31Speaker 6: it's Cause you don't.
- 41:32Speaker 4: See it go in. You've just stuck something on my
- 41:35Speaker 4: arm with sticky tape.
- 41:38Speaker 1: And the scary thing is there are a lot of
- 41:40Speaker 1: people in Australia who are pre-diabetic who already have probably
- 41:43Speaker 1: higher than they realize, uh, blood glucose and don't like,
- 41:49Speaker 1: don't understand the consequences of that. So my dad had crazy,
- 41:55Speaker 1: crazy blood sugar, uh, and obviously therefore diabetes, but, um, Yeah,
- 42:02Speaker 1: I think part of his decline because high blood sugar
- 42:07Speaker 1: is inflammatory. It creates inflammation in the body. All diseases
- 42:11Speaker 1: correlates with inflammation.
- 42:13Speaker 2: All of it.
- 42:15Speaker 1: And also the more inflamed your body is, it affects
- 42:19Speaker 1: your brain significantly. So your cognitive function goes down. So
- 42:23Speaker 1: my dad with high blood sugar... Couldn't string four words together.
- 42:28Speaker 1: Low blood sugar. His brain worked much better. It was
- 42:31Speaker 1: quite observable. And there were times when his, I think
- 42:34Speaker 1: I told you, his blood sugar got to 25.5 one day.
- 42:38Speaker 6: Wow.
- 42:39Speaker 1: Which is basically inconsistent with life.
- 42:42Speaker 6: Wow.
- 42:42Speaker 1: When you go, oh, 10 is really high. 15 is crazy. Quick,
- 42:48Speaker 1: do something.
- 42:49Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 42:50Speaker 2: Yeah, 25 and a half.
- 42:51Speaker 4: Interestingly, there are a couple of conditions. And they're rare.
- 42:53Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 42:54Speaker 4: But there is a condition.
- 42:56Speaker 6: There's exercise-induced hypoglycemia, which I think could be related to
- 43:03Speaker 6: what I think might have been going on with me.
- 43:06Speaker 6: There is nocturnal hypoglycemia.
- 43:11Speaker 1: All that means, everyone, is low blood sugar.
- 43:14Speaker 4: Yes.
- 43:16Speaker 6: If you have been hypoglycemic for a while, then you
- 43:21Speaker 6: can get hypoglycemia unaware, which means you actually don't feel
- 43:25Speaker 6: the symptoms. So that's the tricky part for me was going, well,
- 43:29Speaker 6: if that's happening, it's kind of serious. But I'm not
- 43:32Speaker 6: waking at the times when these readings are measured, so
- 43:35Speaker 6: I can't do a test at the very same time.
- 43:38Speaker 6: But this time around, the monitor and the fingerprint tests,
- 43:40Speaker 6: when I have done them, have aligned accurately.
- 43:43Speaker 4: So it's really interesting.
- 43:46Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 43:47Speaker 2: Hey, Patrick, I like this. Can I just segue?
- 43:50Speaker 1: Yeah, go on. Go.
- 43:52Speaker 3: I'm really excited about this, Tiff, and I understand where
- 43:54Speaker 3: you're coming from about wanting to know what's happening to
- 43:56Speaker 3: your body at night when there could be influences that
- 44:00Speaker 3: can affect you. And, Craig, this is something that's kind
- 44:03Speaker 3: of close to you and I. I have white coat hypertension,
- 44:06Speaker 3: which means I go to the doctor, my blood pressure
- 44:09Speaker 3: goes through the roof. And even when I test, one
- 44:12Speaker 3: of the things I know that I do is even
- 44:14Speaker 3: when I put the cuff on and I sit down
- 44:16Speaker 3: and it starts to expand, I can feel myself get
- 44:19Speaker 3: more stressed.
- 44:19Speaker 5: I start to hyperventilate.
- 44:21Speaker 3: Now, Huawei, the phone manufacturer, has an on cuff built
- 44:27Speaker 3: into their latest smartwatch. They've had a few smartwatches that
- 44:30Speaker 3: do this, but their newest version, the D3, I'm pretty
- 44:33Speaker 3: excited about because it will subtly continually monitor your blood
- 44:38Speaker 3: pressure and And this is medical grade monitoring. This is
- 44:42Speaker 3: what you're talking about too, Tiff, the medical grade monitoring
- 44:44Speaker 3: that's accurate. And what they've done is they've worked out
- 44:48Speaker 3: a way. Look, it means the watch is a little
- 44:50Speaker 3: bit bigger than a standard watch, but it's got the
- 44:52Speaker 3: cuff built into the band. And what they say is
- 44:55Speaker 3: with this new model, it's more subtle when it takes
- 44:58Speaker 3: your blood pressure at night and it doesn't wake you.
- 45:01Speaker 3: So you're not consciously aware of your blood pressure being taken.
- 45:05Speaker 5: This to me is a bit of a holy grail.
- 45:07Speaker 3: For those of us who have white coat hypertension, I
- 45:11Speaker 3: worry about it because high blood pressure is something that
- 45:13Speaker 3: can be extremely dangerous. And they call it the silent killer.
- 45:19Speaker 3: And for me, because the dad has high blood pressure,
- 45:22Speaker 3: but I've decided not to go on medication because I'm
- 45:24Speaker 3: on the cusp. But if I can get more accurate readings,
- 45:27Speaker 3: that will definitely dictate whether or not I go on
- 45:29Speaker 3: to medication or not. And so this is a big
- 45:32Speaker 3: life changer for me.
- 45:33Speaker 5: I know it's going to be probably expensive. I think
- 45:35Speaker 5: it's going to be about $ 800 or $ 900.
- 45:37Speaker 3: But if I know I can get that reading, and
- 45:39Speaker 3: even if I use it for a few months and
- 45:42Speaker 3: go back to my GP and say, well, okay, these
- 45:44Speaker 3: are the readings that I'm getting, I feel I'm going
- 45:46Speaker 3: to get a much more accurate snapshot of my health.
- 45:49Speaker 3: And so, yeah, this is exciting for me. And Huawei,
- 45:53Speaker 3: it's really interesting that the company's come up three times
- 45:56Speaker 3: this week in my feed, two for positive tech, Because
- 45:59Speaker 3: then the other thing that they've done is they've released
- 46:02Speaker 3: a trifold phone, so three screens, that also gives ECG
- 46:08Speaker 3: monitoring when you're holding it. So talk about medical tech
- 46:11Speaker 3: built into your phone and your devices. So you can
- 46:14Speaker 3: get an ECG monitoring and you can get a micropump
- 46:17Speaker 3: built into your phone for blood pressure tracking as well
- 46:21Speaker 3: coming through Huawei. But they're also under investigation in the
- 46:25Speaker 3: United States because it's claimed that that over the decades
- 46:30Speaker 3: they've been stealing American tech and then improving it, and
- 46:34Speaker 3: that's how they built their company. It's been claimed that
- 46:37Speaker 3: the whole foundation of Huawei was basically by copying other devices,
- 46:42Speaker 3: and now there's this big court case on in the
- 46:44Speaker 3: United States. But for us in Australia, you know, there's
- 46:48Speaker 3: no limitations on the purchase of these products because I
- 46:50Speaker 3: think they're bloody amazing.
- 46:52Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 46:53Speaker 2: You know what? A couple of things I want to
- 46:54Speaker 2: say off that. First thing, okay, you and hypertension, right?
- 46:57Speaker 6: Mm-hmm.
- 47:00Speaker 1: This is not science or this is not truth.
- 47:03Speaker 2: This is my opinion.
- 47:04Speaker 1: I 100% think you do not have high blood pressure.
- 47:09Speaker 1: The reason being, if the only time you get a
- 47:13Speaker 1: score or a result is when a doctor's doing it,
- 47:16Speaker 1: your blood pressure will always be elevated because of your condition, right?
- 47:21Speaker 1: So what white coat hypertension means, listeners, is just that
- 47:25Speaker 1: it's It's a fear response, right? You go in and
- 47:29Speaker 1: there's an underlying fear or nerves or whatever it is.
- 47:32Speaker 2: I used to have the same thing.
- 47:34Speaker 1: I seem to be over it but if same my
- 47:37Speaker 1: blood pressure would be healthy 120 over 80 or whatever
- 47:41Speaker 1: i'd go sit down and be 170 over 120 like
- 47:44Speaker 1: my blood pressure would temporarily go through the roof because
- 47:47Speaker 1: i was shitting myself so if you only get a
- 47:51Speaker 1: reading when you're in that state it's not representative right
- 47:55Speaker 1: so you walking around just doing life with fritz and
- 47:59Speaker 1: hanging out and doing your stuff I would think your
- 48:03Speaker 1: blood pressure would be somewhere between almost low and healthy.
- 48:08Speaker 1: So that's because your body, your physiology is altered. Like
- 48:13Speaker 1: literally when you're fearful, blood pressure goes up, heart rate
- 48:16Speaker 1: goes up, respiration goes up. You start to produce in cortisol,
- 48:20Speaker 1: which elevates blood pressure because you're sitting down and you're like, oh, fuck, oh, fuck, oh, fuck.
- 48:24Speaker 2: What's it going to be?
- 48:26Speaker 3: But I've also worn a 24-hour monitor on a few occasions.
- 48:29Speaker 3: And the second that the beeping starts, the cuff starts
- 48:32Speaker 3: to inflate, I can feel my heart rate go up.
- 48:35Speaker 1: Exactly. That's a fear response.
- 48:38Speaker 5: Exactly.
- 48:38Speaker 3: And it wakes you up. Have you ever worn one
- 48:40Speaker 3: of those to bed? You've got cables everywhere. You've got
- 48:43Speaker 3: tubes there.
- 48:44Speaker 5: You're laying in bed and all of a sudden it
- 48:46Speaker 5: goes beep and then it starts to inflate.
- 48:48Speaker 3: Of course, you're going to wake up. So that's why
- 48:50Speaker 3: I wanted to see what this will do. But yeah, anyway,
- 48:53Speaker 3: it's a self-experiment. I like doing these sorts of things.
- 48:55Speaker 3: And Just like Tiff, I just want to really know
- 48:58Speaker 3: what my body's doing and have a more accurate idea
- 49:01Speaker 3: of what's going on.
- 49:02Speaker 1: Yeah. Tiff and Scott have lots of gizmos and gadgets
- 49:05Speaker 1: that they use at night. None of them are particularly medical, but,
- 49:08Speaker 1: I mean, that's just what they tell me on Fridays
- 49:10Speaker 1: when they rock up.
- 49:11Speaker 2: So I don't know that it correlates to blood pressure.
- 49:14Speaker 4: He's a paramedic. He told me they were professional tools.
- 49:17Speaker 5: Oh, really?
- 49:18Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh, goodness.
- 49:22Speaker 2: Let's do one more, Patrick.
- 49:24Speaker 1: You pick. I'll just give you a little time to
- 49:27Speaker 1: pick the one you want. Are you coming to the
- 49:30Speaker 1: gym tonight, Cook?
- 49:32Speaker 3: Yes.
- 49:32Speaker 6: Cook? Yes.
- 49:34Speaker 1: Tell your boy that I'm going to bring back all
- 49:36Speaker 1: of those containers. Yes.
- 49:39Speaker 6: Excellent, because he is very busy right now as we
- 49:42Speaker 6: speak cooking you shepherd's pie and something else.
- 49:46Speaker 5: Oh, my God. He cooks for you?
- 49:47Speaker 4: And I've got a bunch of quiches in my freezer.
- 49:50Speaker 6: I was like, what?
- 49:51Speaker 5: What are these?
- 49:52Speaker 4: Oh, they're for harps. Don't eat them.
- 49:53Speaker 1: Oh, praise the Lord. Well, I train him. I train him,
- 49:58Speaker 1: which is worth $ 9, 000 a session, and he brings me food.
- 50:05Speaker 1: He's almost my perfect partner.
- 50:07Speaker 5: I was going to say, who's in whose relationship at
- 50:09Speaker 5: the moment?
- 50:10Speaker 1: Exactly. Tiff's just an add-on.
- 50:11Speaker 4: Does he do V and can I do something for him?
- 50:22Speaker 2: I'm sure you could.
- 50:23Speaker 4: What do you mean by does he do vegan though?
- 50:25Speaker 4: That's my question.
- 50:26Speaker 5: Does he cook vegan? Not does he do vegan. Sorry.
- 50:28Speaker 5: Does he cook vegan?
- 50:33Speaker 2: Speaking of that.
- 50:34Speaker 1: Nice, Blake. I know we all know that you're attracted
- 50:38Speaker 1: to men, but are you an equal opportunity grinder person?
- 50:47Speaker 1: Do you kiss vegans and carnivores?
- 50:51Speaker 5: As long as they haven't eaten a steak, maybe.
- 50:54Speaker 1: As long as they don't have steak juice on their chin.
- 50:58Speaker 3: If I limited my potential dating options to gay.
- 51:02Speaker 5: Vegans, particularly living in the country, I would be a nun.
- 51:08Speaker 5: I'd be you.
- 51:10Speaker 1: So while you're spooning them on the couch watching a rom-com,
- 51:13Speaker 1: do you say... Part of me doesn't want to do
- 51:15Speaker 1: this because you eat cows, but fuck it, I've got
- 51:19Speaker 1: limited options. I've thought about this.
- 51:21Speaker 5: I've really thought about this.
- 51:22Speaker 3: I reckon if I wanted to get back into another relationship,
- 51:25Speaker 3: I couldn't have a relationship with somebody who wasn't at
- 51:27Speaker 3: least vegetarian.
- 51:28Speaker 5: Yeah, I think so too.
- 51:30Speaker 3: It'd be hard to have someone cooking a steak in
- 51:32Speaker 3: my kitchen and me watching that meat sizzle.
- 51:37Speaker 2: But that'd be a test of love though.
- 51:39Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 51:40Speaker 1: I thought you would love sizzling meat, but anyway. All right, Patrick,
- 51:43Speaker 1: we're done.
- 51:45Speaker 5: Wait, wait, there was one more story. You asked me
- 51:48Speaker 5: for a story.
- 51:48Speaker 1: Hey, fucking hell, you sound like a 14-year-old soprano. Get
- 51:53Speaker 1: your testicles out again.
- 51:56Speaker 5: I wanted to talk to Tiff. This is a specific
- 51:59Speaker 5: story I put in here for Tiff.
- 52:01Speaker 1: Because, right, we.
- 52:02Speaker 5: Had a failed attempt to help her clean her teeth
- 52:06Speaker 5: a few years ago, right?
- 52:07Speaker 3: I convinced her to buy this ridiculous mouth guard type
- 52:11Speaker 3: toothbrush and she bought it on my suggestion and it was.
- 52:14Speaker 5: A piece of crap.
- 52:15Speaker 4: $ 60 something.
- 52:16Speaker 5: I know. Well, I've got a better suggestion for you, right?
- 52:19Speaker 3: Dyson is about to, or just releasing, not in Australia yet,
- 52:23Speaker 3: but it's about to release a a new camera built
- 52:27Speaker 3: into a toothbrush that also squirts dental flossy stuff into
- 52:33Speaker 3: your mouth.
- 52:34Speaker 5: Now, this is really good.
- 52:36Speaker 3: It's a camera jet AI optical flossing toothbrush.
- 52:41Speaker 5: Oh, real?
- 52:42Speaker 3: Now, only for the low price of $ 770 Australian dollars.
- 52:48Speaker 2: This is ridiculous.
- 52:49Speaker 5: It's so big.
- 52:51Speaker 3: The handle is so big, but it uses AI to
- 52:55Speaker 3: look into your teeth while you're brushing, and it's... Like
- 53:01Speaker 3: cleaning stuff between your teeth to floss at the same time.
- 53:06Speaker 3: It runs at 245 hertz per second, the cycles per second.
- 53:10Speaker 3: So Dyson claims it removes 69% more dental plaque than
- 53:15Speaker 3: a standard electric toothbrush, right? And a 13-fold improvement in
- 53:20Speaker 3: gum health. This is an oral solution you've been looking for, Tiff.
- 53:26Speaker 1: Okay, Dyson, if you want that trialled independently, just send
- 53:30Speaker 1: us one. Tiff will give it a run for a
- 53:32Speaker 1: week or a month and we'll do a completely unbiased report.
- 53:37Speaker 5: It looks pretty big.
- 53:37Speaker 3: It's probably the biggest thing you've had in your mouth before,
- 53:39Speaker 3: I reckon, because it's quite a large toothbrush.
- 53:43Speaker 2: Oh, there it is again. There it is again. We
- 53:46Speaker 2: don't need that.
- 53:48Speaker 1: Listeners, I apologise for the depths to which this show
- 53:51Speaker 1: has sunk. Sorry, Scott.
- 53:55Speaker 2: Patrick, tell people where they can find you.
- 53:58Speaker 5: No one wants to find me after this.
- 54:00Speaker 1: That's true.
- 54:00Speaker 5: Absolutely not, except if they're a sniper.
- 54:05Speaker 3: You could go to websitesnow.com.au and you could make a
- 54:10Speaker 3: suggestion about things you don't want me to talk about
- 54:13Speaker 3: as opposed to messaging me to talk.
- 54:15Speaker 5: About a particular topic. We have had a little bit
- 54:17Speaker 5: of feedback over the years.
- 54:19Speaker 1: I think if people are still listening, then they like
- 54:22Speaker 1: this bullshit.
- 54:23Speaker 2: Either that or they're a masochist. Like, why would you
- 54:26Speaker 2: keep listening?
- 54:27Speaker 5: I'm going the masochist route, I think, for those people.
- 54:30Speaker 5: All right. Hi, thank you for listening.
- 54:34Speaker 2: Tiff, you can tell people also.
- 54:38Speaker 4: Tiffcook.com and all the places.
- 54:42Speaker 2: And you can find me at my mum's house tomorrow.
- 54:45Speaker 6: All right.
- 54:45Speaker 2: Thanks, everybody.
- 54:47Speaker 1: Thanks, team. Bye.