
Tane Danger Essay | June 2025
Clip: Season 2025 Episode 39 | 2m 41sVideo has Closed Captions
Tane Danger shows that your phone can do more than just text or take photos.
Tane Danger shows that your phone can do more than just text or take photos.
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Tane Danger Essay | June 2025
Clip: Season 2025 Episode 39 | 2m 41sVideo has Closed Captions
Tane Danger shows that your phone can do more than just text or take photos.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship♪♪ >> TANE: I'VE DISCOVERED A NEW DEVICE.
IT MAKES IMPOSSIBLE THINGS HAPPEN.
IT'S CALLED THE PHONE!
YOU MAY HAVE SEEN OR EVEN USED ONE OF THESE FOR TEXT MESSAGES OR POSTING BAD PHOTOS OF FOOD ONLINE.
BUT DID YOU KNOW IT CAN ALSO REACH PEOPLE?
TO TALK TO PEOPLE.
TO TRANSMIT YOUR VOICE TO OTHER PEOPLE?
FOR UNDERSTANDABLE REASONS, THIS ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIES THEM.
JUST TRY CALLING SOMEONE.
CHANCES ARE, THEY WON'T PICK UP.
OR IF THEY DO, THEY WILL DO WHATEVER THEY CAN TO GET YOU TO STOP TALKING TO THEM ON THE PHONE.
JUST THE OTHER DAY, I CALLED A RESTAURANT FOR A RESERVATION.
>> WAITER: CHEF!
SOMEONE IS LOOKING FOR A RESERVATION!
>> CHEF: WE ARE THE MOST POPULAR RESTAURANT IN THE CITY.
DID THEY NOT SEE ON OUR WEBSITE?
EVERY TABLE IS BOOKED FOR THE NEXT SIX MONTHS!
>> WAITER: HE'S NOT ON THE WEBSITE.
HE CALLED.
ON THE PHONE!
>> CHEF: MON DIEU!
TEXT THE MAYOR THAT HIS RESERVATION TONIGHT IS CANCELED!
GIVE THIS CALLER HIS TABLE AND GET HIM OFF THE PHONE!
>> TANE: IT WORKS WITH ALL MANNER OF SUBSCRIPTIONS TOO.
>> SALES: I WASN'T TRAINED FOR THIS.
WHAT IF I RENEWED YOUR SUBSCRIPTION FOR HALF PRICE?
A THIRD THE PRICE?
WHAT IF WE JUST RENEWED YOU FOR FREE, FOREVER?
PLEASE JUST HANG UP!
PLEASE!
>> TANE: IT'S EVEN SURPRISINGLY EFFECTIVE IN POLITICS.
>> SENATOR: THIS BILL WILL BE MY CULMINATION OF MY ENTIRE POLITICAL CAREER!
BWAHAHAHA!
>> AIDE: SENATOR, WE'RE GETTING WORD THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE AGAINST THE PROPOSAL.
>> SENATOR: WHAT'S THAT, POLLING?
WHO EVEN BELIEVES THAT ANYMORE?!
>> AIDE: NO, SENATOR.
THEY'RE PHONE CALLS.
FROM CONSTITUENTS.
TWO OF THEM!
>> SENATOR: KILL THE BILL!
>> TANE: SO THE NEXT TIME YOU WANT SOMETHING, OR YOU DON'T WANT SOMETHING, TRY PICKING UP A PHONE AND ACTUALLY CALLING A PERSON.
JUST REMEMBER TO SAY HELLO AT THE BEGINNING AND GOOD-BYE AT THE END, AND THE REST WILL TAKE CARE OF ITSELF!
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