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| 0:00.0 | So there's these two sisters who I know. |
| 0:15.8 | One lives in Philly, the other lives in St. Louis. |
| 0:19.0 | And they have one of those relationships where like one of them is always worrying about |
| 0:22.4 | the other one. |
| 0:23.4 | Like calls all the time if the calls aren't picked up, she freaks out. |
| 0:27.0 | And so one day they decide that instead of checking in over the phone, they're going |
| 0:31.5 | to cut out the middleman. |
| 0:33.6 | The sister in St. Louis will just plug herself into her internal organs, broadcast her |
| 0:39.6 | vital signs to the internet, and then the sister who worries who lives in Philadelphia, |
| 0:43.7 | she can just check in whenever she wants. |
| 0:46.6 | This story seems crazy. |
| 0:47.9 | It seems like an episode of Black Mirror or like a new Netflix show. |
| 0:52.3 | It did not seem like a thing to real humans in the world would decide to do. |
| 0:56.6 | So I wanted to know more about it and I wanted to talk to the two women who decided to do |
| 1:00.2 | this, which was easy because one of those women is my mom. |
| 1:05.7 | Can you say your name? |
| 1:08.2 | Nancy Warren. |
| 1:11.0 | And your job? |
| 1:12.0 | Or just like how you want to be identified? |
| 1:15.8 | Mom. |
| 1:16.8 | No, I don't want to be mom. |
| 1:18.2 | Who on my weight? |
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