2.4 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2020
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Dueling Presidential Town Halls. When you do the Math, it’s Bob McGrath. Does your phone add to your anxiety?
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0:00.0 | All right, everybody, calm down, calm down. |
0:16.8 | Wendy's here. I'm here. We're here to entertain. It's episode 82 of the Bill and Wendy show. |
0:22.8 | Wendy, that's our goal, isn't it, to inform and entertain? |
0:25.3 | That's what we do, or we try to anyway. |
0:28.3 | Never on the same show, though. |
0:30.9 | You got to mix it up, Bill. |
0:33.2 | Right. |
0:34.1 | It's too predictable. |
0:35.4 | If you're always informing and entertaining, we like to do one that's informative, wait a couple weeks, then do one that's entertaining. |
0:42.2 | Although today I'd like to intermingle them if we could. |
0:45.5 | Oh, yeah. Let's see what happens. Let's definitely see what happens. I wanted to start out by telling you that I watched a documentary last night that scared the bejesus out of me. |
0:55.0 | Okay. What was it? |
0:58.3 | It's a documentary on Netflix, and it's called The Social Dilemma. Have you seen this or heard about this? |
1:03.8 | I've heard about it, and I can't wait to see it. |
1:06.5 | I had so many friends tell me, I'll walk up to a friend and they'll look all pasty. |
1:11.8 | And I just assume that they've contracted the virus. |
1:15.3 | And they go, no, it's from this documentary on Netflix. |
1:18.1 | So I finally watched it last night. |
1:20.0 | My wife and I watched it. |
1:21.4 | And the whole premise of it is it's guys that have been very high up in the tech industry, |
1:45.7 | guys who have worked for Google and Snapchat and Facebook and all like that, high-ranking people at all these companies who tell you that what's going on behind the scenes at these companies is frightening because they're figuring out logarithms that kind of predict our behavior and they're spoon-feeding us stuff, you know, anything from new stories to advertisements to whatever. And it's taking |
1:51.2 | away our ability to reason. And it's taking away our ability to mesh with other thoughts that |
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