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CAPE FEAR MEMORIAL BRIDGE CLOSURE: UPDATES, RESOURCES, AND CONTEXT

Opening Panel Round

PETER SAGAL, HOST:

Right now, panel, time for you to answer some questions about this week's news. Faith, you can update your Facebook at your computer, in the bathroom, even while driving through a school zone. Well, a new app just out will allow you to post a status update even when you are what?

FAITH SALIE: Gosh, what's worse than doing it while you're going to the bathroom? Giving birth.

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MO ROCCA: No, I bet I know what it is.

SAGAL: Status: aahhh.

SALIE: Dying.

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SAGAL: Even more than dying.

SALIE: Oh, when you're dead.

SAGAL: Yes, indeed.

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SAGAL: Don't work Facebook fans, just because you've died doesn't mean you have to boring your friends on Facebook.

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ROCCA: I'm decomposing.

SAGAL: Well, the new app is called If I Die, which really should be called When I Die.

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SAGAL: It allows you to compose a final message that will be posted after your ultimate demise. It's already a success, though a large of the submitted final messages are just, "Look at the lunch I would have been eating today if I were alive."

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ROCCA: Wow, and how long can this go on for?

SAGAL: I don't know. But the real question is how does the app know that you've died?

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SAGAL: And the answer is it just knows. If you haven't checked your Facebook page...

ROCCA: In five minutes.

SAGAL: ...for 45 minutes.

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SAGAL: You must be dead.

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ROCCA: Wow, what if you could have - sorry, this is so - well, it is a morbid topic, so there's no way not to be morbid about it, but if you could bring, like, your iPhone into the casket and it could hear what people are saying when they come to your gravesite, and post that. Like, through some voice recognition thing?

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ROCCA: You know what I'm saying?

SAGAL: Yeah.

ROCCA: Like, "you know I actually never really liked him that much." You know, like three weeks later.

TOM BODETT: The technology is there.

SAGAL: You can imbed it in the gravestone.

ROCCA: Yes.

SAGAL: People could - yeah.

ROCCA: That would be great.

SAGAL: Yeah.

BODETT: I would just say "I heard that."

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ROCCA: An automatic response.

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SALIE: That was good.

ROCCA: An automatic response, that's great.

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