CLASSIC: When We Become Our Phones
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
iHeartPodcasts
4.2 • 11K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
It's bizarre to think that -- not too long ago -- the idea of having something as powerful as a smart phone in your pocket would seem like something out of Star Trek. But now these handy devices go with us throughout most of our lives. A steady stream of feel-good chemicals from social media, dangerously convenient ways of buying things through apps, health and location tracking and more. And every piece of data is, somehow, tracked. While it's no secret that companies use information like this for targeted advertising, the true potential of this data aggregation, and the true danger this aggregation poses for society, has only recently come to light. Join the guys to learn more about what happens in a world where you become your phone.
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| 0:00.0 | Fellow conspiracy realist, first off, we want to thank you for joining us this evening. |
| 0:06.7 | Statistics prove that you are probably listening to this show on a mobile device. |
| 0:13.4 | It's true. |
| 0:14.3 | Or recording this show while occasionally glancing down at your mobile device. |
| 0:17.9 | No, not typically, but we're doing classics. |
| 0:19.7 | So I was just checking the feed. |
| 0:22.2 | But, yeah, we're kind of tethered to these things, aren't we? |
| 0:25.7 | Looking at mine here. |
| 0:27.3 | It says something about who's this Lindsey Graham character and then a bunch of space news. |
| 0:32.9 | Oh, ladybugs. |
| 0:32.9 | Lady, yes, lady. |
| 0:33.9 | Oh, ladybugs? |
| 0:34.7 | How was Ladybugs? |
| 0:37.3 | Back in 2020, right around Halloween, the most wonderful time of the year, folks, we asked ourselves |
| 0:48.5 | about the sudden proliferation of the technology called the smartphone, which very much looked like a thing |
| 0:58.9 | out of sci-fi franchises similar to Star Trek. It had been predicted. For a long time, |
| 1:07.7 | DARPA and parts of the deep state, just to be honest, had cell phone technology way before the public. |
| 1:15.7 | But we were worried about what we later decided to call the dopamine casino of it all. |
| 1:22.6 | How quaint our take must be compared to the episode on chat GPT psychosis that we just recorded. |
| 1:30.6 | Oh, geez. |
| 1:31.6 | Just think about all the things you do with that phone that's in your pocket right now |
| 1:36.4 | or that you're staring at because now you're contemplating it. |
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