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Speaker 1: Hasbro has announced a new version of Monopoly called Monopoly
Speaker 1: App Banking, which makes the game a little more digital
Speaker 1: in nature. The board game elements are mostly the same,
Speaker 1: they've made a few well kid friendly updates. Park Place
Speaker 1: and Boardwalk have been switched to a rocket launch pad
Speaker 1: and the Moon. Other new properties include a chocolate factory,
Speaker 1: a VR roller coaster, and a dinosaur park. The main difference, however,
Speaker 1: is that they're there's no banker and no physical money. Instead,
Speaker 1: there's a mobile app that processes all the transactions.
Speaker 2: This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
Speaker 1: Hasbro says the app is great for speeding up the game,
Speaker 1: making it more accessible to younger players and making it
Speaker 1: harder to cheat. Obviously, Folks like Taco don't agree. No,
Speaker 1: because you Monopoly is old school. You keep it old school.
Speaker 2: You don't need to freshen it up with all that
Speaker 2: crap because kids aren't gonna play it anyway. They're gonna
Speaker 2: play the cop killer games or whatever. All these games
Speaker 2: are the Blitzay's Car, Thief, GTA Grand Theft. Yeah, they're
Speaker 2: gonna do ms discussed stuff like that.
Speaker 1: The most common complaint is the new version can't be
Speaker 1: used to teach kids about math and how to handle money.
Speaker 1: And some parents are pretending like their kids don't have
Speaker 1: access to a device with apps.
Speaker 2: Okay, and they don't have jail because all the kids
Speaker 2: are whims.
Speaker 1: No, go to jail, good directly to jail. I don't
Speaker 1: think this will become becoming to you as a huge
Speaker 1: bit of news, but Microsoft is finally shutting down Skype.
Speaker 1: Skype will no longer be around as of May. The
Speaker 1: writing had been on the wall for a while. Every
Speaker 1: time you think though the Skype is going away, Microsoft
Speaker 1: would launched some big update. However, this time that's not happening.
Speaker 1: They will retire the video app in May. The solution,
Speaker 1: of course, is just use Microsoft Teams instead if you're
Speaker 1: still holding on to Skype teams. Is pretty easy to navigate.
Speaker 1: It's humorous at times, but pretty easy to actually work it.
Speaker 2: Oh we got we have a team's thing today, don't we?
Speaker 1: Oh we do?
Speaker 2: Yeah, somebody said, totally agree with you. Bob Bam Monopoly.
Speaker 1: Bam Margera has reportedly been removed from Tony Hawk's pro
Speaker 1: Skater remaster. The remaster version of pro Skate three and
Speaker 1: four coming out this summer. There appears to be a
Speaker 1: one notable emission troubled Jackass Star and Skater Bam Margera.
Speaker 1: The reboot will have boosted graphics, multiplayer capabilities, new and
Speaker 1: classic skaters, and new parks. However, Bam not part of this.
Speaker 2: That's sad.
Speaker 1: Not quite sure why that might be.
Speaker 2: It's just such a he's disgraced himself. That sucks.
Speaker 1: As social media has grown throughout the year, so have
Speaker 1: the concerns about becoming literally addicted to this. We know
Speaker 1: this is a thing, it's a problem. With that in mind,
Speaker 1: there's a new app that's arrived to help combat the
Speaker 1: problems that come with too much screen time. It's called
Speaker 1: touch Grass. So you're gonna have to go on an
Speaker 1: app to get off apps. It's called touch Grass. This
Speaker 1: hits the Apple Store in March fourteenth. It's coming to
Speaker 1: Android stores in a later version. The concept is pretty simple.
Speaker 1: Once a user social user social media is blocked by
Speaker 1: the app until they physically go outside and take a
Speaker 1: photograph of themselves touching grass.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you're doing more screen time. It's I'm not
Speaker 2: trying to poop all this new technology. Seriously, we already
Speaker 2: have stuff like that. It's called touch ass On goat
Speaker 2: on OnlyFans.
Speaker 1: You're just encouraging people to go outside a little talksho.
Speaker 2: It be great, but you're encouraging them to hit the app,
Speaker 2: which is screen time, go outside, take a picture which
Speaker 2: is screen time, and then submit.
Speaker 1: It that Hey, I touched grass. How about smoke grass.
Speaker 1: Artificial intelligence is coming to the world's largest call center, Teleperformance,
Speaker 1: which is based in India. And I guarantee every single
Speaker 1: one of us has had an interaction or two with
Speaker 1: his Teleperformance call center. They've just invested thirteen million dollars
Speaker 1: to add send us AI to their service. With that technology,
Speaker 1: the agent's Indian accents can be modified in real time,
Speaker 1: may them easier to understand for US, not Indians. That's
Speaker 1: a good technology.
Speaker 2: Second, John Board, they I talk out no because it
Speaker 2: evolves telemarketers.
Speaker 1: Scientists are trying to bring back mammoths. They have created
Speaker 1: the wooly mouse. Scientific push to bring wooly mammoths back
Speaker 1: from extinction has resulted in a really hairy mouse thanks
Speaker 1: to the Colossal Biosciences, who have genetically engineered mice to
Speaker 1: exhibit traits reminiscent of the extinct wooly mammoth. They've been
Speaker 1: editing seven jenes and mouse embryos. They produced mice with long,
Speaker 1: thick wooly hair.
Speaker 2: Do they have little tusks? I have to get back
Speaker 2: to you on that. Do we need wooly mammoths to
Speaker 2: come back? I didn't know there was, Yes, super Rats,
Speaker 2: somebodice in Taco quote unquote, get off my lawn, Bob.
Speaker 1: Well, you want to sit.
Speaker 2: Down and play that digital Monopoly game, then call me
Speaker 2: that until then.
Speaker 1: There is a company in the UK called Power Role.
Speaker 1: They've been around since twenty twelve. They have been working
Speaker 1: on perfecting solar film that can generate electricity rather than
Speaker 1: having to go with these big panels and stuff mounted
Speaker 1: on roofs and think window tint. That's the best way.
Speaker 1: They've made a breakthrough in this that is significantly going
Speaker 1: to cut costs in this emerging technology. Keep an eye
Speaker 1: on this. Can you imagine you're getting a new home
Speaker 1: built and rather than dumping all the money into having
Speaker 1: solar panels affixed to the roof, maybe you could just
Speaker 1: have this as your window treatment to generate some of
Speaker 1: your electricity. It could happen sooner than you might think.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. And finally, the south By Southwest Conference kicks
Speaker 1: off Friday in Austin, which originally started as kind of
Speaker 1: a music industry thing but has celebrated much more as
Speaker 1: this thing has gone on for years, including tech, film
Speaker 1: and television. So there you go. That's some of your
Speaker 1: check it out items for this week. Is there anything
Speaker 1: else you would like to crap all over? Taco?
Speaker 2: I only did two of the stories, thank you. Okay,
Speaker 2: well it was a telemarketers one too with Benny.
Speaker 1: They're at call center. They're not telemarketing, they're there if
Speaker 1: you need customer service, Taco.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well it's going to be at the telemarketers center.
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