S2 Ep151: Alexa, Stop Listening!
An Acquired Taste Podcast
Audioboom Studios
5.0 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Hey, good lookin’ TasteBuds! The Consumer Electronics Show is happening RIGHT NOW and Kathleen and Bethany have very differing opinions. Is it a good thing that all of your kitchen devices can talk to each other, or does this signal the beginning of the robot apocalypse? Plus, grab a stylus and some papyrus because Bethany brings you another MadLib!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Miranda Sawyer and I'm hosting the brand new podcast Papercuts. |
| 0:04.6 | From the mail's obsession with Woke to the daily stars' war on pigeons, |
| 0:08.7 | to all the things the Guardian is telling you not to enjoy, |
| 0:12.1 | Papercuts digs into the private mania of the UK press. |
| 0:15.9 | And what that tells us about Britain today. |
| 0:18.7 | I'm joined by some of the UK's sharpest commentators and funniest comedians |
| 0:22.4 | to pick out the most eye-popping stories the morning press has to offer |
| 0:26.0 | and serve them up for your incredulity and entertainment. |
| 0:29.8 | Papercuts, we read the papers so you don't have to. |
| 0:33.3 | Out now, wherever you get your podcasts or visit papercutsshow.com. |
| 0:59.8 | I'm a podcast for people who have at least one existential crisis per week. |
| 1:03.8 | Yes, ma'am. |
| 1:04.8 | I just had mine. |
| 1:05.8 | Kathleen saw me through it. |
| 1:07.2 | Yes, you did. |
| 1:07.8 | I was sitting on my bathroom or kitchen floor. |
| 1:10.2 | It's head and hands. |
| 1:11.4 | How's been your first full week of 2019, Kathleen? |
| 1:16.4 | Well, let me tell you, not good. |
| 1:18.6 | Why? |
| 1:19.6 | Because I went to the supermarket yesterday to buy baby spinach. |
| 1:24.6 | Uh-huh. |
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