On February 16, 2006, I appeared on MSNBC's The Situation with Tucker Carlson, live by satellite from Vancouver, British Columbia, or as Tucker helpfully clarified for his viewers, "That's in Canada." The booking was pure post-Valentine's framing: "You probably got your significant other something like flowers or chocolate for Valentine's Day. That is so last millennium... Now that is true love."
The questions came in the order you'd expect. Whether a chip might "migrate to your heart like a shot gun pellet." Whether having my girlfriend chipped was "taking the whole possessive boyfriend thing to a whole new level". It isn't; it's identification, not monitoring, and getting one was her idea once she'd watched mine do nothing dramatic for months. And, my favorite: whether "a foreign intelligence agency could use this technology, these chips in your body, to control your thoughts." I confirmed there were no mind control chips.
The best exchange came when I mentioned what does worry me: biometric face scanning with public cameras. Tucker pounced on the apparent contradiction: afraid of that, yet voluntarily injecting a chip? Which teed up the whole point: "the difference is I'm taking control of the technology rather than, you know, it ruling me and her... if we ever want to, we can just remove them in 20 seconds and they're out." His closing verdict: "You made a good case. I have to say, I'm almost won over."
Two footnotes from the official NBC transcript: my name is rendered "Graffsta" throughout, and right after the segment, producer Willie Geist claimed on air to have his E-ZPass implanted in his shoulder. He was kidding. I think.