Let’s Check The Tape

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4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

An incomplete list of the objects listening to us: Siri. Alexa. Google Home. With so many recordings, the transcribed life isn’t far off. For better or for worse.

This week, one intrepid woman records every minute of her life for three days. She captured a lot of minutia, and one extremely uncomfortable interaction. Our guest co-host on this repeat episode is Rose Eveleth, of the Flash Forward podcast.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey!
0:02.0	Hi! How was work?
0:12.0	Uh, exhausting, but fine.
0:15.0	I think Gina finally admitted that we need to hire another person for the team, so that's
0:19.1	good.
0:20.1	Let's just hope it happens sooner rather than later.
0:22.6	How was your day?
0:23.6	Oh, it's okay.
0:24.6	I got some writing done, but I'm still stuck in the one plot thing.
0:28.9	Oh, what do you want for dinner?
0:30.1	Not sure.
0:31.1	Oh, not pizza.
0:32.1	We ordered in for lunch.
0:34.1	Is Alia doing something in the car?
0:36.1	What? Alia, she didn't follow you in.
0:38.1	I thought you were picking her up.
0:40.1	Um, no, you said you were picking her up this morning.
0:44.1	You definitely said you were picking her up.
0:47.1	No, I didn't.
0:48.1	You did. I am 100% sure.
0:50.1	Okay, let's look at the transcript.
0:52.1	How about we just pick up our daughter instead?
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