Jeff and Justin with Dong- Wilson not included
(Credit: Joseph Kaminski)
After multiple cancellations and attempts to get him on the show, Mr. Ngo is finally in the 404 studio in New York! We’re excited to pick his brain on all the new advancements in the CNET labs, but we get side-tracked by the most random conversations. Dong and I have a special relationship (don’t go there): Dong was actually the first person I met when I first started working at CNET! In fact, you could consider him my printer mentor! Thanks, Dong.
Since we have Dong in the hot seat, we take this opportunity to pick his brain about his experiences coming to America from Vietnam. As you can imagine, it took the young Dong awhile to adjust to our idioms and figures of speech, which he illustrates beautifully in a cheeky story involving an attractive blond woman and a big, yellow Hummer.
In addition, Dong surprises us all and tell us that it was actually Michael Jackson that inspired him to learn English! I can just imagine little Dong saying “Who is the Man in the Mirror and why are we asking him to change his ways?”
Believe it or not, we finally arrive at an actual news story in the second half of the show. This one is about a Japanese teddy bear robot nurse named RIBA (Robot for Interactive Body Assistance) meant to transport the elderly and handicapped in its creepy outstretched arms. Has anyone noticed that it looks a lot like a certain bear meme?
Either way, we all take issue with the fact that the bear can only hold up to 134 pounds in its foam-padded paws! Clearly this robot ain’t picking any Americans up anytime soon. I think we actually have babies that weigh more than that.
Big thanks goes out to Paul Ramsay for inviting us to last night’s hypnotism show at the Julliard Academy. It was tons of fun–who knew a group of kids could Riverdance so well!? Maybe you can help Jeff through his knife phobia! If you’re not familiar with Paul’s work, be sure to check out his appearance on our show. Also, head over to the Inside CNET Labs Podcast to catch more of Dong Ngo’s crazy antics.
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