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I'm your host, Elise Hugh.

Oh gosh, I just got a really alarming text from my bank.

Did you pick up your phone for the 800th time that day, empty of emotion, but still feeling a deep, lonely ache.

Yes.

And scroll through Scruff, having a number of pointless conversations with headless

torsos.

That's comedian and writer Mike Albo, describing a feeling I think we all know a little too

well.

Indeed, we talk a lot about how our phones run our lives, but what happens when

they get a little too smart, too reflective of the world around us?

Yes, I did, but how did you note that?

And then did you order, call me by your name on iTunes for $7.99 and then finally watch it

because you have avoided watching it, because as a gay man pushing 50, you don't want to get upset seeing young gorgeous men in love?

Yes, I did.

In this part comedy, part memoir, part documentary talk,

Mike takes a very personal route to show us the hilarious and painfully relatable ways

that our digital lives are reflecting our desires,

anxieties, and vanities.

That's coming up right after a short break.

And now our TED Talk of the Day.

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