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Speaker 1: News talks hereb it is seventeen minutes half to five.

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Speaker 1: Netflix is now creating a second screen show. This is

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Speaker 1: designed for people who want to scroll on their phones

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Speaker 1: while they're also watching TV. Don't lie, you do it too.

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Speaker 1: The shows feature overly descriptive dialogue, repetitive plots. This is

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Speaker 1: in order to engage an increasingly distracted audience who want

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Speaker 1: to double screen. Kate Rodgers, the film reviewershus with us

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Speaker 1: this evening.

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Speaker 2: Hi, Kate, you knew to ring there immediately because you

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Speaker 2: knew how much this was going to whine the arts. Kate?

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Speaker 1: Is this the end of the arts?

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Speaker 2: No, this is a devolution of the human race, And

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Speaker 2: before you know it, we're just going to be shopping

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Speaker 2: around like omebs, just sliming along the ground, bumping into

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Speaker 2: each other. We've got a brain cell to spare between us.

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Speaker 1: Are they going to give out an oscar for the

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Speaker 1: best second screen movie?

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Speaker 2: You know?

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Speaker 1: Where are we heading?

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Speaker 2: I don't know where we're heading. And honestly, I would

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Speaker 2: argue that ninety percent of the shows we're watching on

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Speaker 2: streaming are basically second screen shows. Anyway. I mean, I

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Speaker 2: you know me well enough that when they started telling

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Speaker 2: us that we could watch Christopher Nolan films on our phone.

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Speaker 2: I knew that we were going downhill, and we were

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Speaker 2: going downhill fast. And I also know what a purest

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Speaker 2: I am and what a dinosaur I am. And I

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Speaker 2: will confess there have been one or two moments where

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Speaker 2: I have found myself looking at my phone when I'm

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Speaker 2: watching TV. But I would argue, I'm just watching something

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Speaker 2: rubbish that Max, my twelve year old, is watching. But

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Speaker 2: I'm a rare. I won't let the CIDs have a

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Speaker 2: phone if we're going to sit down and watch the movies,

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Speaker 2: whatever it might be, because I do fit my kids

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Speaker 2: down to watch a movie. But I do know that

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Speaker 2: I'm just wasting my breath. I mean, how many phones

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Speaker 2: do you watch? And how many iPads are you watching

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Speaker 2: when you sit down to.

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Speaker 1: Watch and listening to this, everybody listening to this knows

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Speaker 1: that they do a little bit of this too. So

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Speaker 1: what will people actually notice to tell us what the

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Speaker 1: difference will be in the product.

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Speaker 2: From what I'm gathering? And if anyone's going to do

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Speaker 2: this in partoneer this and by the sounds of it,

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Speaker 2: it's been happening in boardrooms, cross streaming head offices, all

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Speaker 2: over the world as basically dilming it down to a

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Speaker 2: level that it's repetitive that you're never going to lose

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Speaker 2: track of the plot. So you're fitting your scrolling through

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Speaker 2: Instagram and then suddenly you hear the word angela fever.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. You lock up and go, oh gosh,

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Speaker 2: I forgot that. Nigel for him because Hona got gle

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Speaker 2: angela fever when he was twelve, and that's why he's

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Speaker 2: struggling to make his relationship work with Daphne from Cans.

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Speaker 2: And then they'll repeat it again ten minutes later and

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Speaker 2: you go, oh, angela feather. I guess they're making it

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Speaker 2: so that they're constantly repeating certain bits of a plot

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Speaker 2: and order for you to cap up. And you know what,

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Speaker 2: there's so many people and I know them myself, especially

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Speaker 2: in these days and age where we are stressed and anxious,

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Speaker 2: that go back to shows that we've watched over and

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Speaker 2: over again, whether it's The Gilmore Girls, whether it's Suits,

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Speaker 2: whatever it might be. We know everything that's going to happen.

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Speaker 2: There's a comfort in that. It also means we don't

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Speaker 2: really have to engage the brain or the signapses. We

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Speaker 2: can just let it wash over us know what's happening.

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Speaker 2: So they're essentially trying to tap their algorithm into that

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Speaker 2: motion that we don't have to think and then we

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Speaker 2: can just sit And why though, why would we bother?

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Speaker 2: Why don't you just sit on Instagram on them? Why

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Speaker 2: don't you watch something?

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Speaker 1: Well exactly, Kate, thank you for that. Kate Roger, who's

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Speaker 1: a film reviewer and critic and quite critical of this idea,

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Speaker 1: I have to say, you're not doing nothing in defense

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Speaker 1: of the you are still engaging your brain. In fact,

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Speaker 1: you could say you're more engaged because you're multitasking on

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Speaker 1: multiple platforms all at once.

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Speaker 2: So I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Will we become thicker? Have we become thicker? I think

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Speaker 1: the answer is probably yes. It's just got twenty one

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Speaker 1: minutes after five. You're on News Talks ZB. I'll tell

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Speaker 1: you why noise canceling headphones are a bad idea shortly. Also, next,

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Speaker 1: i'll tell you about how many government departments we have

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Speaker 1: in New Zealand compared to everyone's favorite country at the moment, Ireland.

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