Becoming Your Parents & Virtual Friend

Do you fear becoming your parents? Dangerous Dave talks about how we do starting at 30 years of age. Plus, a new AI virtual friend that will listen to everything you say and respond by text.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is deeper in the den with Dangerous Day. I
should probably get paid to say this, But one of
the funniers campaigns right now in recent years is about
saving you from becoming your parents. You know, but let's
face it, we all become our parents, whether we like
it or not. A new poll twenty seven percent of
Americans say they're worried about becoming parents, and the average

(00:21):
person realizes they start acting like their parents at thirty
years of age. In this survey, they also asked what
travel habits people are worried about that they picked up
from their parents. Top five getting to the airport too early,
forgetting something at home, wanting to find the gate before
doing anything else, going to the bathroom right before boarding
a flight, and making friends at the airport. Got a

(00:42):
problem with that, And I like getting there early. Oh yeah,
I look at that. See you now, I'm my parents
deeper in the two. Well wait till Alexa hears about this,
she'll get jealous. A promo video a new product called
Friend has blown up on social media this week. It's
a virtual companion you wear like a necklace appendant as
a built in microphone, listens and responds to everything you say.

(01:04):
People are mostly mocking it for being well, kind of weird,
but some people like the idea. It's kind of like
a Tamagatchi, remember the virtual pets from the nineties. It's
kind of like one, they say, though with a soul.
It always listens and tosses out comments when it wants to,
but it can't totally replace a real friend because it
doesn't talk. It only responds by a text. The ad
shows a woman eating and watching a show on her

(01:26):
phone when a message pops up and says this show
is completely underrated and ask her if the flaful is
any good. So one way that it is like a tamagachi.
It can die. A website said your friend, and the
memories are attached to physical device. If you lose or
damage your friend, there's no recovery plan. You can pre

(01:47):
order for ninety nine dollars at friend dot com. They
don't ship until early next year. The current version only
works with the iPhones, and they say it will expand
to Android if there's enough demand. People are making fun
of it, but the study at Stanford I found virtual
friends can be helpful for people who live alone and
don't have a lot of friends to turn to for advice.
So there you go, something that listens to you all

(02:09):
the time and response sends the information to who to
it again for another episode of Deeper in the Den
with dangerous Dave right here.