Latest / The Cubby and Christine Morning Show / HUGE Amazon Outage Happening
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Things might be easing a little bit, but as of
- 0:03Speaker 1: like five am. This was like a couple hours ago
- 0:05Speaker 1: we first got to work. Amazon Web Services. There was
- 0:07Speaker 1: an outage, yes, and it took out a lot of
- 0:10Speaker 1: websites a lot, and Amazon says it is easing as
- 0:14Speaker 1: of now, but things might not be fully up and running.
- 0:18Speaker 1: But the Amazon Web Services affects gosh, a lot of apps.
- 0:22Speaker 2: Yeah, we were, I mean we're talking United McDonald's.
- 0:25Speaker 1: McDonald's app was down, Snapchat was down. I think a
- 0:29Speaker 1: few of those pay things like Venmo and all that.
- 0:32Speaker 2: One of the cryptocurrency sites.
- 0:34Speaker 1: Yeah, the ring camera was also a ring camera was down.
- 0:37Speaker 1: So again I think things might be getting better. But
- 0:40Speaker 1: if alexas a acting weird or something, it could.
- 0:43Speaker 2: Be that it's not her faults. This one's not on
- 0:46Speaker 2: Alexa because I spoke to her this morning. I did
- 0:48Speaker 2: ask her, and she when I can't do that right now?
- 0:51Speaker 3: Oh?
- 0:52Speaker 1: Is that what she said?
- 0:52Speaker 2: I'm like, And then I tried again, I can't do
- 0:55Speaker 2: that right now? Like what is going on?
- 0:57Speaker 1: It was early in the morning.
- 0:59Speaker 2: Yeah, Alexa was like, Monday, why talking back, Monday three thirty?
- 1:03Speaker 2: What are you asking me?
- 1:05Speaker 1: Funny? Yeah, and her voice is bothering you though.
- 1:07Speaker 2: Well, yes, have you guys, have you been offered to
- 1:11Speaker 2: preview Alexa's new voice because Alexa is getting a quote
- 1:15Speaker 2: unquote upgrade.
- 1:16Speaker 1: I've seen it on the screen, but haven't done anything.
- 1:19Speaker 1: You did it.
- 1:20Speaker 2: We tested it, Alexa asked, you know, because we're having
- 1:24Speaker 2: a great conversation over the weekend, Eric and me, do
- 1:27Speaker 2: you want to hear my new voice? And I was
- 1:29Speaker 2: telling Eric, I'm like, don't change your voice. It's a preview.
- 1:32Speaker 2: He's like, Yep, we're not going to change it. We'll
- 1:33Speaker 2: just preview. We heard Alexa's new voice and we were like, no, no, no, no,
- 1:38Speaker 2: stick with old school computer sounding Alexa.
- 1:41Speaker 1: Please, what does it sound like?
- 1:43Speaker 2: It sounds I'm gonna it's trying to sound cool and conversational.
- 1:48Speaker 2: So it's like, hey, this is Alexa, this is your
- 1:52Speaker 2: new improved Alexa voice. Just asked me a.
- 1:55Speaker 1: Question, was that like a vocal fry.
- 1:57Speaker 3: You did a little bit of a vocal fry, a
- 1:59Speaker 3: little like what you would hear on a commercial, trying
- 2:03Speaker 3: to sound casual, like check out the bargains that Like,
- 2:07Speaker 3: so I.
- 2:08Speaker 4: I can't do it justice.
- 2:12Speaker 2: It's if you go back, you go back I guess
- 2:14Speaker 2: you can go back.
- 2:15Speaker 1: We put her back, Okay.
- 2:16Speaker 2: I said, let's preview, and Eric and I were both like, no,
- 2:19Speaker 2: But I don't know if we're going to be forced
- 2:22Speaker 2: to get this new Alexa at some point or it's
- 2:24Speaker 2: going to be our choice.
- 2:26Speaker 1: I hope they give you a choice because you get
- 2:27Speaker 1: used to you know what she's doing alexas Alexa.
- 2:31Speaker 2: You want her to change.
- 2:33Speaker 4: We don't have Alexa. Oh you don't know.
- 2:35Speaker 1: You don't even have a dot or no or echo, nope,
- 2:38Speaker 1: show or nothing?
- 2:38Speaker 2: No, do you have anybody like a No, we have me.
- 2:45Speaker 2: Yeah you are a strong Yeah.
- 2:48Speaker 4: No, we don't have any of that, but you know
- 2:50Speaker 4: it would be cool. Do you know how ways? Do
- 2:52Speaker 4: you guys?
- 2:52Speaker 3: Use ways?
- 2:53Speaker 4: Yeah? You know how you can change the voice?
- 2:55Speaker 2: Yes?
- 2:55Speaker 4: And I hope it's like that. I hope you's cool
- 2:58Speaker 4: if you had the option, like different options. I think
- 3:00Speaker 4: there's going to be some options. But this Alexa was
- 3:02Speaker 4: trying to sound like, Hey, I'm your best friend, Alexa,
- 3:06Speaker 4: and I'm here to help, So just ask me some
- 3:07Speaker 4: questions and hey, I'll answer for you.
- 3:09Speaker 3: Wow.
- 3:10Speaker 1: Yeah, Kristin, do you not have it just because you.
- 3:13Speaker 2: Think you don't want somebody listening, see.
- 3:16Speaker 4: A law enforcement family. Remember that's where I come from.
- 3:18Speaker 1: What about your phone? You have a phone?
- 3:20Speaker 2: Yeah, I phone.
- 3:21Speaker 4: I have lots of stuff turned off on that phone.
- 3:23Speaker 2: Do you really light it over there? But I was
- 3:25Speaker 2: the same. I didn't want to let Alexa in the house,
- 3:28Speaker 2: and I did, and now I'm addicted, and Alexa will
- 3:31Speaker 2: like fire off, you know how you're having a conversation
- 3:33Speaker 2: and it's like we didn't ask you, right, Like, she'll
- 3:36Speaker 2: just start talking and.
- 3:37Speaker 1: The kids do it too. Now the kids Alexa f
- 3:40Speaker 1: you know.
- 3:41Speaker 4: Do you know how many alexis just fart anything?
- 3:44Speaker 1: Sorry about that? If you have Alexa at home, all right,
- 3:47Speaker 1: give us a text four four three six three sorry
- 3:49Speaker 1: if we fired off Alexa.
- 3:50Speaker 2: No, do you want Alexi's new boys?
- 3:52Speaker 1: Yeah? Hit us up. What do you have coming up
- 3:54Speaker 1: in the news?
- 3:55Speaker 2: Okay, So, if you're going to do some home decorating,
- 3:58Speaker 2: this is the color of this season.