PETER SAGAL, HOST:
Panel, right now time for you to answer some questions about this week's news. Tom, the Amazon Echo can answer a lot of questions such as, what's the temperature today or why does it make me feel so sad to be talking to an appliance?
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SAGAL: But with a new add-on device from Amazon, it will finally be able to answer what persistent question?
TOM BODETT: Oh, I read about this. Does - do these pants make my butt look big, or...
SAGAL: That's exactly right.
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SAGAL: That's the question.
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BODETT: And I have to say as a long-suffering husband, I welcome this substitution.
SAGAL: You welcome our robot overlords.
BODETT: I don't know, sweetie, why don't you ask...
SAGAL: Ask Alexa.
BODETT: ...What's her name, Alexa?
SAGAL: Yeah.
BODETT: Yeah.
AMY DICKINSON: But there's only one answer to that, right?
SAGAL: Right.
DICKINSON: Yeah. So that's...
SAGAL: Well...
BODETT: Right. Yeah. I could've made that machine.
DICKINSON: Yeah.
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SAGAL: So it's a new device that's called the Amazon Echo Look. It looks just like the Amazon Echo we already have except this one comes with a built-in camera. According to Amazon, the device will come pre-installed with a program called Style Check. And that uses the device's camera to judge your current outfit and gives you advice. For example, if you put on...
DICKINSON: Oh, we're all - we're all loving this, right?
SAGAL: Yeah. Oh, yeah, I can tell.
DICKINSON: Because we don't - there's not enough judging in the morning - right? - when we're getting - we need more of that.
SAGAL: Well, I mean, it's useful, especially for clueless guys like me. So for example, if you put on a striped shirt and a plaid tie it'll say, oh, you should change one of those. If you decide to go to work wearing a pair of Crocs, while you're gone the Look will burn your house to the ground.
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BODETT: Well, you know, I'm thinking - I was only thinking of my wife, but I - you know, I'm slightly colorblind and there's certain shades of gray that I see as green. And there's this - there's some areas there that if Rita's not home and I'm packing, like, to go somewhere I kind of don't know. I say, God, does these jacket and pants - does this work?
DICKINSON: This is why you need to get a lover.
BODETT: Right. Well - oh, thank you.
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BODETT: No, I think Alexa would be cheaper. But what I think is I could ask Alexa, does - you know, do these pants and jacket go together, and she would answer me without the attitude, right? You know?
DICKINSON: (Laughter) Oh.
BODETT: Instead of just like, no.
DICKINSON: Hello. God.
SAGAL: Who raised you?
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SAGAL: Well, that's the thing. Would you be - I mean, I have an Alexa and - or an Echo. And it's very easy to start thinking of it as a person. So I sometimes feel self-conscious. Like, I say, you know, Alexa, play me Mumford and Sons, and I'm sure it's thinking to itself, again?
DICKINSON: Again.
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BODETT: Do you ever try to impress her with, you know, like, how about "Kind Of Blue," Miles Davis tonight? You know, just to see if she, like...
SAGAL: If Alexa's like...
BODETT: I like the way you're going.
SAGAL: ...Who are you trying to fool?
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DICKINSON: I just know...
ROY BLOUNT JR.: Where's Peter?
DICKINSON: I just...
SAGAL: (Laughter) I've been stolen by someone with taste.
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PHIL COLLINS: (Singing) You're the only one who really knew me at all, so take a look at me now.
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