Digital and analog worlds collide! John and Brian discuss a new product from Humane called the AI Pin and consider the next generation of personal devices. Then Cue Card Wally, from Saturday Night Live and Late Night with Seth Meyers, shares how he uses the ultimate low-def tech to power late night TV…and how he's worked with the SNL cast and hosts, including Alec Baldwin, Norm MacDonald Emma Stone, Adam Driver and others.

Key topics & chapter markers 

(00:15) Amazing juxtaposition

(01:02) The AI Humane Pin

(06:46) The end of phones and screens? 

(09:49) John and Brian get on their marketing high horses

(12:21) Live from New York…it's Cue Card Wally!

(16:05) SNL: The Live Factor

(22:39) Last minute changes

(25:55) Mistake-free for 33 years. Almost.

(29:29) “You wanna work for late night tv????”

(32:03) Helping the hosts: Adam Driver, Emma Stone and others

Background content

“This is the Humane Ai Pin” - Humane, YouTube 

"And this is why the Humane Ai Pin sucks" - The Friday Checkout, YouTube

“Screens are good, actually” - The Verge 

“Humane’s Ai Pin is a $700 Smartphone Alternative You Wear All Day” - Wired 

“Just because you can design an AI wearable doesn’t mean you should” - Fast Company

Cue Cards by Wally

"Creating Saturday Night Live: Cue Cards" - SNL, YouTube

“Will Forte told Charles Barkley to Hit Cue Card Wally” - Late Night with Seth Meyers, YouTube

“Backstage at 'Saturday Night Live' w/ Cindy Crawford (1994) | You Had To Be There” - MTV Vault, YouTube 

"A career with ‘Saturday Night Live’ was in the cue cards" - LA Times

Connect with Brian and John on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianmarks13/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-l-young/