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Speaker 1: Back in two thousand five, Jen Patty was a senior
Speaker 1: designer at Apple. Her career was taking off, but like
Speaker 1: a lot of us and sedentary office jobs, she was
Speaker 1: struggling with her weight. It was a lot of anxiety
Speaker 1: and depression and eating meals in my car and drinking
Speaker 1: a lot, and uh driving a hunt, sitting a lot,
Speaker 1: and working a lot. And I got to a point
Speaker 1: where I knew I needed to make a change, but
Speaker 1: I didn't know what to do because it was so overwhelming.
Speaker 1: For years, Jenna tried a bunch of things. Eventually, she
Speaker 1: committed to seeing a personal trainer every single week, and
Speaker 1: it worked. She lost thirty pounds over the course of
Speaker 1: a year. She was so thrilled that she ended up
Speaker 1: quitting her high paying job and became a personal trainer herself. Today,
Speaker 1: Jen is forty five years old and she is the
Speaker 1: fittest person I've ever met. Now, this is the tape
Speaker 1: of you on a recent afternoon, basically getting your butt
Speaker 1: kicked by Jim. It's great. I've been training with Jen
Speaker 1: over the last two months, and she is really good
Speaker 1: at her job and gets paid a lot for her expertise.
Speaker 1: She charges her clients a hundred seventy dollars procession. But
Speaker 1: in the decades since Jen has been honing her skills
Speaker 1: the tech industry she left has also been hard at
Speaker 1: work trying to automate away small slices of her specialty,
Speaker 1: which is getting people fit. Most of these products so
Speaker 1: far have been a flop, but there's a new generation
Speaker 1: of devices just coming to the market now that don't
Speaker 1: just track your steps or your calories. They actually tell
Speaker 1: you what to do in real time, the way Jen
Speaker 1: has been doing with me. Jen thinks a compute could
Speaker 1: never do her job, but after taking these gadgets out
Speaker 1: for spin, I'm not so sure that Jen's career is
Speaker 1: as robot proof as she thinks. Hi am Akito and
Speaker 1: I'm brad Stone and this weeknd Decrypted. We have seventeen gadgets,
Speaker 1: one Elite personal trainer, and two months for me to
Speaker 1: see which is better, the human or the machine. It's
Speaker 1: a competition that has big implications for the wearables industry
Speaker 1: that's estimated to become a thirty four billion dollar market
Speaker 1: by as well as the more than twenty thousand people
Speaker 1: employed as trainers in the U S alone. This will
Speaker 1: be the second episode in our series exploring the risk
Speaker 1: that automation replaces our jobs. Tell us your stories, record
Speaker 1: a voice message and send it to decrypted at Bloomberg
Speaker 1: dot net and stay with us. I'll be discussing some
Speaker 1: of the more interesting devices I tested, including a set
Speaker 1: of heart rate sense and earbuds, emotion Sense and clip,
Speaker 1: a chess trap, and a risk based activity tracker. At
Speaker 1: the end of the show, I'll be sharing the gadget
Speaker 1: I recommend the most. So to start today's show, I
Speaker 1: want to go back a little bit too. When I
Speaker 1: first met my wife Emily two years ago. Here we
Speaker 1: go again, when we got married in January, and over
Speaker 1: the course of our relationship, like a lot of people
Speaker 1: who settle into long term relationships, I gradually stopped exercising
Speaker 1: as much as I used to. In March, I realized
Speaker 1: that I was about nine pounds heavier than when I
Speaker 1: was single, and at my lean nest and you blame
Speaker 1: your wife for this. Well, here's how I explained it
Speaker 1: to Jen when I first met her. And why do
Speaker 1: you think about is? I mean, I think a lot
Speaker 1: of it is because I don't have this like existential
Speaker 1: threat of never reading anyone, you know. And I think
Speaker 1: back when I was single, I I just like there
Speaker 1: was much a much bigger priority for me to stay
Speaker 1: under a certain way and look a certain way. And
Speaker 1: now I'm married, so I guess I don't care anymore.
Speaker 1: So after I came to this realization in March, being
Speaker 1: the diligent technology journalists that I am, the first thing
Speaker 1: I turned to was obviously technology. I went into this
Speaker 1: with plenty of skepticism, since I've had a lot of
Speaker 1: disappointing experiences with wearables before. Yeah, I myself have a
Speaker 1: robust collection of smart watches and fitness trackers that now
Speaker 1: do a great job monitoring the dust levels and various
Speaker 1: dust Yeah, I've had one or two fit bits before
Speaker 1: to um and a GPS watch and even the super
Speaker 1: Bulky Watch a couple of years back that tracked how
Speaker 1: much I was sweating, and all of them generated these
Speaker 1: really cool charts. But it was the same story over
Speaker 1: and over again of ending up with all this data
Speaker 1: and not really knowing what to do with it. They
Speaker 1: didn't tell me what I should do, you how I
Speaker 1: should change the way I lived my life, So I
Speaker 1: guess I stopped using them after a few weeks. And yet,
Speaker 1: knowing all of this, knowing that you were probably going
Speaker 1: to be disappointed again, you still gave these gadgets another
Speaker 1: girl I did. I did, and as I did my research,
Speaker 1: I was intrigued because there was something different in the
Speaker 1: way that these new devices were being marketed. So these
Speaker 1: devices are not just giving you data, they're actually coaching
Speaker 1: you through an exercise, right, And that made me wonder
Speaker 1: whether they were just as good as the real thing,
Speaker 1: just as good as having a human personal trainer. And
Speaker 1: that's how I came to meet Jen Patty. Hey, that's good, good,
Speaker 1: how are you for our first session? Jen came to
Speaker 1: meet me at our office in downtown San Francisco, and
Speaker 1: I was pretty nervous, which you can probably tell from
Speaker 1: how high pitched my voice got. She's five eleven hundred
Speaker 1: sixty pounds and at the time I didn't know that
Speaker 1: she competes in these crazy one hundred mile races in
Speaker 1: the mountains for fun. I immediately got intimidated and regretted
Speaker 1: what I got myself into. Okay, so today we're gonna
Speaker 1: do some basic assessments to see where you're starting from
Speaker 1: and your fitness, and then we're also going to talk
Speaker 1: about your goals where you want to end up from
Speaker 1: when we're done with our sessions together, and then I'll
Speaker 1: help um you put a training plan like a road
Speaker 1: math together. So how did it go? I was sore
Speaker 1: for days? So what did Jen think about this little
Speaker 1: experiment you are running pitting her against these machines. I
Speaker 1: was a little nervous because I thought she might find
Speaker 1: insulting or something. But Jen loved it. She really seemed
Speaker 1: to relish in this competition. Like this time. She started
Speaker 1: chatting up these two photographers at the end of one
Speaker 1: of our runs. What's the podcast? I read a tech
Speaker 1: podcast called Decrypted from bloom Brake, and I'm pitting her
Speaker 1: Gen's up her Seal trainer against a bunch of new
Speaker 1: fitness gadgets. I'm winning that proclaimed to be AI personal
Speaker 1: coaches experience not as good or as attractive as I am.
Speaker 1: And Jen has been so confident in her value as
Speaker 1: a personal trainer. So confident that technology would never replace
Speaker 1: her job that she's even helped design these exercise videos
Speaker 1: on an app from Fitbit called fit Star. And that's
Speaker 1: an interesting choice for someone whose livelihood depends on people
Speaker 1: needing to come see her to get fit. Do you
Speaker 1: ever stop and think, why am I automating away my job?
Speaker 1: It was in the back of my head, But again,
Speaker 1: like why am I doing my job? I care about health,
Speaker 1: So I'm doing my job because I want to make
Speaker 1: everybody healthier. Like I can't pick up all the starfishes
Speaker 1: off the beach. I can only help one or two.
Speaker 1: And making fitness more excess bowl for more people. That's
Speaker 1: something she really cares about because she knows most people
Speaker 1: can't afford to spend hundreds of dollars on a trainer
Speaker 1: every month. She's still working with some clients on the side,
Speaker 1: and she made time for me for the story, but
Speaker 1: these days she's spending most of her energy building a
Speaker 1: startup that designs these public spaces where people can work
Speaker 1: out for free, kind of like these jungle gyms for adults.
Speaker 1: So Jens sounds smart here. Even though technology is starting
Speaker 1: to encroach into her former career, as a personal trainer.
Speaker 1: She is moving on to a new career. Yeah, although
Speaker 1: she just kept laughing it off when I pressed her
Speaker 1: about this possibility of AI personal trainers living up to
Speaker 1: their promise. So you see how these guyshets coming into
Speaker 1: the market and you don't feel threatened. No, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm excited. Trainers want to see people out there exercising.
Speaker 1: So whatever is getting people off the couch. And I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure any trainer you interview will say this, anything
Speaker 1: that gets people off the couch, we're excited about out.
Speaker 1: Do you talk about this with your friends who are
Speaker 1: trainers to about some of the gadgets that are coming
Speaker 1: we lack it. Yeah, why do you laugh? Tell me
Speaker 1: why you laugh? Because we can tell you pretty accurately
Speaker 1: when you're when you're not going to be wearing that
Speaker 1: fit bit anymore. Okay, when you're gonna stop using it,
Speaker 1: and we can tell you how it's going to fail,
Speaker 1: and then we just we laugh. Yeah, tell me tell
Speaker 1: me more. We just know when that thing is when
Speaker 1: you're going to get bored of it. We know that
Speaker 1: something that helps you track what you're eating, that's if
Speaker 1: you're not motivated intrinsically well, look at what the trends
Speaker 1: we see today, like what are millennials spending their money
Speaker 1: and resources on experiences? Right? So that's something that we
Speaker 1: share with another human being. The more tech that comes
Speaker 1: into our life, the more we seem to value in
Speaker 1: person human experiences. As I continue to meet up with Jen,
Speaker 1: more companies sent me review copies of their areous devices.
Speaker 1: I love gadgets, and this was like Christmas for me,
Speaker 1: although my wife wasn't very happy with all the boxes
Speaker 1: and the cords that were piling up in our bedroom,
Speaker 1: and she said, I looked pretty ridiculous each time I
Speaker 1: went running wearing one of these gadgets. Stop, he looks psychotic.
Speaker 1: What do you think You've never looked cuter? What? What
Speaker 1: is this? So? This is my what band, This is
Speaker 1: my Polar running watch, this is my fifthit, this is
Speaker 1: my Atlas strength training watch, and this is my move
Speaker 1: activity tracker. And then this is this is that I
Speaker 1: hate that thing. Now. I'm not going to go over
Speaker 1: all seventeen devices that I tested for the story today,
Speaker 1: but one of the first devices that him in the
Speaker 1: mail was a Bluetooth connected headset called v that connects
Speaker 1: to an app and it's specifically made for runners. This
Speaker 1: headset has a special technology inside the earbud that detects
Speaker 1: your heart rate. Oh my god, I've learned something today.
Speaker 1: I really had no idea that you could detect a
Speaker 1: heart rate from someone's ear. Yeah. And what makes it
Speaker 1: really cool, though, is that it uses all that information
Speaker 1: on your heart rate and also your speed to give
Speaker 1: you real time feedback on how you're running. I took
Speaker 1: it out on a three mile run in my neighborhood
Speaker 1: the day it came in the mail. I'm v your
Speaker 1: new personal trainer. I sense your heart rate, your steps,
Speaker 1: and a whole lot of other things a human trainer can't.
Speaker 1: That you just heard is the AI personal trainer that
Speaker 1: talks to you and she chimes in when she wants
Speaker 1: you to push harder. Come on, diet deep, you're about
Speaker 1: to break your and remembers how you did in previous runs.
Speaker 1: Last workout, you got a bit fatigued. I'm only bring
Speaker 1: it up because your body might still be recovering. My
Speaker 1: favorite thing about this is that my name Aki was
Speaker 1: in a preset name in the app, so I had
Speaker 1: to choose a nickname, which led to funny encouragements like
Speaker 1: this nice work. Warrior. Henceforth ye shall be known as Warrior.
Speaker 1: I think I'm retiring the name of Okay, so Warrior,
Speaker 1: what was your verdict? Ultimately, I didn't feel like the
Speaker 1: really pushed me and motivated me to train harder the
Speaker 1: way I really hoped it might. Um, it's a very
Speaker 1: new product and there's still not a whole lot it
Speaker 1: can do, especially for something that costs two hundred fifty dollars.
Speaker 1: So at this point I would call it more of
Speaker 1: a chatty companion to keep you amused through a boring run,
Speaker 1: So you wouldn't call it a coach or a trainer.
Speaker 1: Now I don't think so, Okay. So one point for Jen,
Speaker 1: zero for the machines. Okay, So next up, you tried
Speaker 1: something called the Lumo Run. Yeah. It's a little clip
Speaker 1: installed with motion sensors to clip onto the back of
Speaker 1: your shorts. It costs hundred dollars and appears with an
Speaker 1: app after your runs. It shows you how well you
Speaker 1: fared on five very specific measures of your running form,
Speaker 1: and how did you do well? It told me that
Speaker 1: I scored too high on this measure called your bounce,
Speaker 1: which is how much your body moves up and down
Speaker 1: while you run. And to help me correct that, the
Speaker 1: apple so show me a video of this exercise called
Speaker 1: squat shuffles that's supposed to help me bounce less over time.
Speaker 1: So this was really like having a running coach. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is actually far more feedback than when I got
Speaker 1: with Jen. Her feedback was just a little bit more generic, like,
Speaker 1: you know, pump up your knees on these hills or
Speaker 1: take smaller steps. So Jen was never this quantitative. No,
Speaker 1: but I should say getting these stats wasn't very motivating,
Speaker 1: and it really look at the app after my runs
Speaker 1: and think like, oh man, I can't wait to go
Speaker 1: my next run to fix my bounce. Okay, so the
Speaker 1: Loomo run not really for you, No, I don't think
Speaker 1: so okay, So one more point for Jen. Still zero
Speaker 1: for the machines. So acky? I mean, Warrior, what is
Speaker 1: the most expensive gadget that you tried? Well, Brad, you
Speaker 1: are a big basketball thing and a lot of NBA stars,
Speaker 1: including DeAndre Jordan's, have been seen wearing this black wristband.
Speaker 1: It has a heart rate monitor on the back of
Speaker 1: the device. It's called the Whoop and they started by
Speaker 1: only selling to professional sports teams at first, but last
Speaker 1: year they started selling to ordinary consumers. To This device
Speaker 1: costs five dollars for this small wristband. Yeah, when you
Speaker 1: look at the hardware, it doesn't really look a whole
Speaker 1: lot different from some of the other activity tracerds that
Speaker 1: I tried um For example, the Fitbit Charged two. I
Speaker 1: tested that too, and it's a wristband with all day
Speaker 1: heart rate monitoring. But what's really cool about the Whoop
Speaker 1: is the software. Unlike the Fitbit, it crunches all the
Speaker 1: data that it collects to give you advice that you
Speaker 1: can actually use, like what give us an example. So,
Speaker 1: one score it calculates is this thing called the recovery score,
Speaker 1: and it shows up on an app that pairs with
Speaker 1: the device first thing in the morning after you wake up.
Speaker 1: It's looking at things like how much sleep you got
Speaker 1: and how much stress your body is currently under using
Speaker 1: this relatively new heart rate metric that's becoming popular in
Speaker 1: sports medicine. And if your score is high, it tells
Speaker 1: you that your body is ready for hard workout for
Speaker 1: the day. But you know, let's say you didn't sleep
Speaker 1: all the night before and your score is low, then
Speaker 1: it'll tell you to take it easy. I'm looking myself
Speaker 1: forward to a low score. But tell me how it
Speaker 1: all competes with the human and the picture. Chin. Well,
Speaker 1: she didn't keep detailed stats on my sleep, but she
Speaker 1: did calibrate or workouts together if she thought I looked
Speaker 1: tired or if she knew that I was still sore
Speaker 1: from previous workout. Okay, so can we score one point
Speaker 1: for the gadget here? I think so, although I do
Speaker 1: have to say this kind of advice on when to
Speaker 1: take it easy isn't really what I needed the most,
Speaker 1: help with what I really wanted, with something that pushed
Speaker 1: me harder. You know, something that motivated me to work
Speaker 1: harder than I ever could alone. Coming up? Ok, you
Speaker 1: will share the device she liked the most and whether
Speaker 1: she liked it enough to replace her personal trainer, Jen.
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Speaker 1: it's Pierre producer here on Decrypted. Thanks to all of
Speaker 1: you sending us your stories. We absolutely love hearing from you.
Speaker 1: This week, we got one message that was so relevant
Speaker 1: to this episode we just had to share it with
Speaker 1: all of you. Hi Decrypted. My name is Jenny and
Speaker 1: I'm a personal trainer in New York City. I hear
Speaker 1: all the time people saying that apps are going to
Speaker 1: take the place of personal trainers. And while I think
Speaker 1: fitness apps are a great addition to somebody's workout program,
Speaker 1: they are certainly not there at five o'clock in the
Speaker 1: morning holding you accountable if you don't get out of bed.
Speaker 1: Personal trainers are personal. They listen to people's woes, prop
Speaker 1: them up when they're feeling down, and keep them accountable
Speaker 1: when they eat ice cream for breakfast. Not only that,
Speaker 1: but personal trainers are standing over their client, making sure
Speaker 1: they are not hurting themselves, counting every rep and making
Speaker 1: sure that they finished the entire workout, no matter how
Speaker 1: tired or lazy they might feel. Show me an app
Speaker 1: that does all these things, and I will stand down
Speaker 1: welcome back to DECRYPTI. Before the break, we went through
Speaker 1: the v the Loumo Run, and the Whoop, all new
Speaker 1: fitness devices that aim to be more useful than a
Speaker 1: fitbit or an Apple Wash. And when I eventually settled
Speaker 1: on my number one pick, naturally, there was one person
Speaker 1: I really wanted to check my work with. Okay, they
Speaker 1: wanted to be pretty tight, like, so it's good, it's
Speaker 1: actually it's good. Okay, anything for the podcast doctor, how's
Speaker 1: that right there? That's all right, okay, full disclosure. What
Speaker 1: you're listening to here is me putting on the move
Speaker 1: hr burn, which is a black strap that you wear
Speaker 1: in your chest. It measures your heart right, and it
Speaker 1: appears with the company's app that talks to you, coaching
Speaker 1: you through difficult outdoor runs where you alternate between sprinting
Speaker 1: and jogging, and also through these indoor exercise classes. Right.
Speaker 1: I tried the intermediate level indoor exercise, which had me
Speaker 1: start out with some jumping jacks. Let's go keeps game time.
Speaker 1: Make sure your legs land outside of your hips. Now
Speaker 1: that computer voice you just heard is computerized trainer. And
Speaker 1: what I really liked about it is, you know, since
Speaker 1: she's following your heart rate collected through the chest straps,
Speaker 1: she knows how hard you're working. She tells you where
Speaker 1: your heart rate should be during each exercise. For example,
Speaker 1: zone four means you're working really hard and zone one
Speaker 1: means you're basically resting. And that all means when you're
Speaker 1: not meeting the goals, the app yells at you to
Speaker 1: work harder. Zone three bush harder to reach the target,
Speaker 1: So the targets none for zone too. Time to push,
Speaker 1: Let's do, let's go. You're almost at the finish line.
Speaker 1: And after thirty three minutes of this, I've never been
Speaker 1: more thankful that this is a podcast and not a
Speaker 1: video show. I was drenched in sweat stadium. You're doing
Speaker 1: great Zone four. I can keep it up in front
Speaker 1: of us. Good Brad, This is the hardest time before
Speaker 1: the end is insightful. Way to go nice, So, Brad,
Speaker 1: would you think you know? I love the data collection,
Speaker 1: I love the workout in designed for me. The AI itself,
Speaker 1: the motivational tool, I found it funny. I don't think
Speaker 1: it quite sells the those motivational aspects of it. Um
Speaker 1: you know it's AI has a long way to go
Speaker 1: before I could mimic, the intonations, the humanity of actual
Speaker 1: people who are trying to get you to work harder. Yeah,
Speaker 1: definitely so aky. What's the final verdict. Well, over the
Speaker 1: course of my sessions with Jen and also over the
Speaker 1: course of my workouts with these various devices, I've lost
Speaker 1: almost seven pounds, which has been enough for me to
Speaker 1: get back to the body that I had when I
Speaker 1: was single. At the beginning and the end of this project,
Speaker 1: I ran a one point five mile sprint. This is
Speaker 1: to test my cardiovascular strength, and I've gotten a whole
Speaker 1: minute faster, which is pretty cool. And I don't know,
Speaker 1: I just feel lighter on my feet, my clothes fit better.
Speaker 1: My wife says that I seem more energized and in
Speaker 1: a better mood every day. So I think this has
Speaker 1: been a pretty successful experiment for me. So, Aki, do
Speaker 1: you think it was Jen the the trick or the
Speaker 1: move gadget? So thinking about this, and I didn't really
Speaker 1: set this up as a scientific experiment. I was trying
Speaker 1: all the gadgets at the same time, and I was
Speaker 1: also training with Jen, so it's hard to objectively tell. Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: granting that this is subjective, let me put it this way,
Speaker 1: if you had to choose between three months with Jen
Speaker 1: or using the Move gadget, which would you do? Well.
Speaker 1: Jen is expensive. She charges a hundred seventy five dollars
Speaker 1: per session, whereas the Move costs just sixty dollars for
Speaker 1: the chess trap and the app that comes with it
Speaker 1: is free. So at my current salary, I would probably
Speaker 1: choose the gadget. Um, it made me work really hard
Speaker 1: and the exercises I found were really fun. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: let's take price out of the equation, because this is
Speaker 1: about the future of a certain kind of work. If
Speaker 1: all things were equal and price was not a concern,
Speaker 1: which would you do? I would hire Jen and a heartbeat,
Speaker 1: yeah for sure. I Mean working out with her was
Speaker 1: definitely more fun, more motivating than having this computer voice
Speaker 1: talk at me like you talking about earlier. And the
Speaker 1: workouts I did with her were just a lot more variable,
Speaker 1: you know. Um we did pull ups and stairs prints,
Speaker 1: and in our last session together we went on this
Speaker 1: ten mile run along them marin Headlands, and she even
Speaker 1: gave me cool tips like, um, what and when to
Speaker 1: eat for the half marathon that I'm training for. Right.
Speaker 1: But the thing is, I mean we can reliably say
Speaker 1: that the AI in devices like the Move gadget will
Speaker 1: get better. Right, So, over time, do you think Jen's
Speaker 1: job is at risk? I think so, Yeah, maybe way
Speaker 1: down the road at least for now, though you would
Speaker 1: need a lot of disposable income to train with Jen
Speaker 1: in the first place. And as long as Jen is
Speaker 1: much better than these devices for people who don't really
Speaker 1: have to worry about money that much, I don't think
Speaker 1: these devices pose a direct threat to Jen. But um,
Speaker 1: maybe if you're like a group instructor, or you're a
Speaker 1: personal trainer, not as great and not as dedicated as Jen,
Speaker 1: you might be more at risk. Certainly, the six dollar
Speaker 1: Move is a lot cheaper than having a monthly gym membership,
Speaker 1: for example. Yeah, totally. In fact, I wonder when Jim's
Speaker 1: will start giving us these devices, right or maybe offering
Speaker 1: certain kinds of tools as a competitive advantage. So ack,
Speaker 1: this whole product category is still in its early days.
Speaker 1: What do you think is coming Well, First of all,
Speaker 1: I think the Move is already pretty cheap at sixty dollars,
Speaker 1: but I think that price is going to come down
Speaker 1: a lot with products with a lot more features than
Speaker 1: the Move. In the coming years. You know, for example,
Speaker 1: the Whoop band five dollars, that's definitely going to get
Speaker 1: cheaper over time. So I think that's pretty exciting. Brad,
Speaker 1: What do you think I look forward to the day
Speaker 1: when this isn't even a product category where it's just
Speaker 1: your clothes, it's your shoes that are monitoring your health,
Speaker 1: that are maybe even recommending new kinds of exercises, are hard, work, harder,
Speaker 1: how to run properly. I do think this sort of
Speaker 1: fades into the background of the other things that we
Speaker 1: surround ourselves with, and then we'll kind of just take
Speaker 1: it for granted. You know, I told Jen about my
Speaker 1: conclusion of ultimate ly liking training with her better, but
Speaker 1: you know, probably buying the gadget if I were still
Speaker 1: at my current salary. And you want to know what
Speaker 1: she said. What did she say? She said, she bets
Speaker 1: that I'm not going to be using the gadget in
Speaker 1: another three months, but she was excited for me, and
Speaker 1: she said she might be recommending the move to her
Speaker 1: clients for them to train on their own in the future. Okay,
Speaker 1: how about this, Let's check in in the fall and
Speaker 1: see if either one of us are using these gadgets. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll see We'll check in September. And that's it for
Speaker 1: this week's episode of Decrypted. Thanks for listening. If you
Speaker 1: have a story about your job as it relates to automation,
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