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74: The Biggest Challenge of Being a Human

Cortex

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Hurley, Technology, Time, Work, Getting, Productivity, Myke, Cgp, Things, Done, Grey

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2018

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

Myke wants to make some changes, Grey is taking a break, and they are both excited about some big announcements.

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0:00.0

Big Tech Week, Mike. Oh huge. I'm so excited. There's been some massive leaps in technology this week that we have to talk about. Everyone knows what they are, right? We all know what we're talking about.

0:10.0

Oh my God. I'm so excited. Yep. New Roombas. So you know obviously the IRobot

0:18.4

company has been paying attention to our continued Roomba coverage. I believe so, yes obviously.

0:23.6

And has created the product that we've been looking for. It comes out next year and it does two things.

0:29.9

It empties itself, which is awesome, but also it learns your house and you can assign

0:37.0

rooms and tell it to go clean specific rooms the only thing that we were looking

0:41.4

for. I have to say there's no more satisfying feeling in the world that when you vaguely complain

0:46.7

about a thing on a podcast and then the world just solves that problem for you before the next episode.

0:53.3

It's really good.

0:54.7

It's fantastic, not only because obviously you get to talk about it on the next episode

1:00.4

of the podcast, but you feel like you have accomplished a thing.

1:04.3

Yeah, I encourage everyone to start podcasts for their minor complaints about things in their lives.

1:09.4

Oh, it's great, but I found it just so funny that Roomba releases a new robot and it does exactly the one thing that you wanted from it.

1:20.0

I think that's just so great.

1:22.0

It's good and bad because I don't really want to buy another

1:26.3

Roomba yet. I mean it doesn't come out until next year so at some point in my future I will

1:31.5

I will get one of these ones but I'm going to stick with a little

1:34.7

Rob E for a while that's the name I've gone for by the way Rob E is like R. O B hyphen E like

1:40.2

Wally because it's also a trash robot so Rob E is the name of my

1:44.8

Roomba. That's pretty cute. Our Roomba is named Roomba.

1:48.8

Roomba is my family name sir. I mean for robots we're now the family who's named their dog dog.

1:56.5

That's I mean that's really what we've done.

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