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Accidental Tech Podcast

381: Uncomfortable Truths

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.32.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2020

⏱️ 110 minutes

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0:00.0

So, if you two are probably slightly too young to remember this, but when I was a kid, there was

0:06.0

tons of stuff like on TV and in books and everything about Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster

0:12.8

and UFOs. Did you catch the tail end of this craze maybe? Like probably the same books in your

0:17.0

school library, but anyway, I used to watch things all the time on TV. It was like secrets of

0:21.7

y'all known or that thing hosted by Leonard Nimoy and they would, you know, talk about eat their

0:26.1

Jewish one show about each one of the things they'd show that same blurry picture of Bigfoot

0:29.6

or they'd show that little like the silhouette of the Loch Ness Monster's like one or two famous

0:33.2

pictures of that or like the UFO shows that have like that same blurry picture of a hubcap or

0:38.8

like these videos of lights going by or you know this blurry black and white photograph of

0:43.8

something and I would just watch this for hours like they could do like an hour long network

0:47.5

special with like one photograph and then we just milked that photograph for all it was worth

0:53.6

right and I was fascinated by it because it's like there's these secret things in the world

0:56.8

that nobody knows about but people have seen like they do tons of interviews like I saw the lights

1:00.5

in the sky and it came down to the clearing in the woods and you know plenty of that but then

1:05.7

just like the one picture right or like the one outline of Loch Ness Monster but all the tails

1:10.4

from the people who are around Loch Ness Monster they heard about it and you know it's we still do

1:13.6

this I suppose with a certain other kind of mystery things where you just stretch out a tiny bit

1:18.2

of content for like you know an hour at a time but if you had told like you know the kid version

1:23.9

of me that someday people like everybody would have a phone in their pocket you know it's like

1:29.7

we're gonna get that Loch Ness Monster now like UFOs will not escape us now like the only reason

1:34.2

we don't have this footage is because you're just out in the woods you know you're on a camping

1:37.7

trip who has their their camera with them or if you have your camera with you like it's in your

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