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IDKMYDE: Your Phone Knows Who's Calling Because of Her · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Your phone knows who's calling because of her. I welcome back. No.
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  Speaker 1: It als to another episode of the most anticipated podcast
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  Speaker 1: on the Black Effects Podcast Network, especially in February, entitled
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  Speaker 1: I didn't Know Maybe you didn't either, And I'm your
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  Speaker 1: host b dot And please make sure you're following us
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  Speaker 1: on Instagram IDK myde with an underscore before it and
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  Speaker 1: at the end, and make sure you're subscribed on YouTube
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  Speaker 1: to check out visual content. Just put IDK myde in
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  Speaker 1: your search bar, and you know you can do all
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  Speaker 1: of that right there from the privacy and the comfort
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  Speaker 1: of your own phone. And to kick off today's episode,
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to give you three of the most useless
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  Speaker 1: facts you'll never need not a day in life. Up
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  Speaker 1: first caller, ID call waiting, and fiber optics, all technology
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  Speaker 1: we take for granted. We're all built on research. Black woman.
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  Speaker 1: Your second useless fact. Her name was doctor Shirley and Jackson,
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  Speaker 1: and she earned her PhD in theoretical physics in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: seventy three. She's the first black woman to do so
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  Speaker 1: at MIT. And your third useless fact. The very first
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  Speaker 1: commercial telephone service the game in eighteen seventy seven, and
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  Speaker 1: for decades after most calls was connected manually by a
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  Speaker 1: human operator. Those have been your three useless facts. Caller,
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  Speaker 1: i D, call waiting, and fiber optics were all technology
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  Speaker 1: built on research by a black woman. Your second useless fact.
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  Speaker 1: Her name was doctor Shirley Ann Jackson, and she was
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  Speaker 1: the first black woman to earn a PhD at MIT
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  Speaker 1: in seventy three. And your third useless fact, the very
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  Speaker 1: first commercial telephone service the game in eighteen seventy seven,
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  Speaker 1: and your calls were connected manually. I mean a stranger
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  Speaker 1: was sitting there listening while they was connecting your calls.
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  Speaker 1: But for today's episode, were you familiar with doctor Shirley
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  Speaker 1: and Jackson Because I wasn't. I didn't know. I didn't know.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know.
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  Speaker 1: You got that boy number saved and your phone is broken,
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  Speaker 1: and that will pop up on the screen every time
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  Speaker 1: he called broke. But you ain't never thought about who
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  Speaker 1: made that possible? Have you? Doctor Shirley and Jackson a
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  Speaker 1: theoretical physicist. She broke barriers in the seventies that we
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  Speaker 1: still use today. Her work on semiconductors and fiber optic
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  Speaker 1: technology and other stuff that I have no clue what
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  Speaker 1: the hell I'm talking about, helped create caller I D
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  Speaker 1: call waiting. The fiber optic communication system we use basically
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  Speaker 1: the fact that you know that that's Brokeie calling and
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  Speaker 1: you can connect the phone instantly or decline exists because
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  Speaker 1: of the research of doctor Shirley and Jackson. Seriously think
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  Speaker 1: about that for a second. Every zoom call that you
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  Speaker 1: don't want to be on for work, every texts that
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  Speaker 1: you leave on red, every FaceTime you ignore, remember when
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  Speaker 1: every person in your phone had a different ring tone.
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  Speaker 1: Her work laid the groundwork for all of that, and
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  Speaker 1: yet how many tech histories give her front page credit.
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  Speaker 1: Very few. Again, hidden in playing sites, just like the
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  Speaker 1: March in one hundred, just like Alfred Crowley, just like
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  Speaker 1: Marie van Britten Brown. If you've missed the previous four episodes,
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  Speaker 1: you have no clue what that meant. But systems get built,
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  Speaker 1: they get used, then most people forget who made them work.
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Jackson didn't invent these technologies to be famous. She
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  Speaker 1: solved critical problems. Then the world caught up, and she
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  Speaker 1: didn't stop there. Doctor Jackson went on to chair the
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  Speaker 1: Nuclear Regulatory Commission. She became the president of the rense
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  Speaker 1: Layer Polytechnic Institute, and she received the National Medal of Science,
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  Speaker 1: a lifetime of excellence built on foundational breakthroughs. So this
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  Speaker 1: Valentine's Day, you think about who's calling by, but I
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  Speaker 1: also remember the black woman whose science makes that notification possible.
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  Speaker 1: Your connections ain't just digital, they're historical. One hundred years
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  Speaker 1: after Carter G. Woodson carved a space to honor black achievement,
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  Speaker 1: doctor Shirley Ann Jackson's research powers the way the world
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  Speaker 1: communicates excellence that history often overlooks. And I didn't know.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you didn't either,