It's time for episode 157 of the Clockwise podcast from Relay FM recorded Wednesday, October 5th, 2016.

Clockwise, four people, four technology topics, 30 minutes.

Welcome back to Clockwise, where every topic we do is an October surprise, at least this month.

I'm Jason Snell and across the internet from me and my co-host, as always, Mr. Dan Moran.

Hi, Dan.

Hi, Jason.

October itself, I find sometimes surprising.

Just sneaks up on you like that.

It does.

The weather turns, especially where you are, the weather really turns. It's chilly here already, although I think it's supposed to get hot again at the end of the

week, because this is, this is why I never take my air conditioner out until like mid-October. So we talk about

four technology topics on Clockwise with two wonderful guests, and this is no exception to the rule we have two wonderful guests today. To my left, she's been on many times

before. It's Shelley Brisbane. Welcome back again. Thank you. And happy October Fest, especially to you,

Jason. Happy October Fest, indeed. To my left, our other guest co-host of the Mac Power Users podcast

here on Relay FM, Mr. Mack Sparking himself, David Sparks. Hi, David. Hi, Dan. Welcome

back. I'm ready to talk clockwise. All right. We will, we're going to spin in that direction then.

Let me start with the first topic. Google's latest event was on Tuesday. They announced a whole

bunch of stuff, the pixel phone, which is built by Google. Google Home, the Google Assistant comes on the pixel phone. We've seen that before, but they talked about it a lot. There's a bunch of virtual reality stuff. I'm just curious, what is it that Google's doing from that menu of things or something else that right now that you find most interesting? And why? Shelly? I'm going to take it to a personal level because the thing I'm most interested in is

their continued development of Chromecast.

I just love the idea that you have something so straightforward and so simple that you can

plug in and point your phone at and make images or music or video appear.

And it's not as sexy or tied into the Google ecosystem as some of the bigger deal products, but I'm still digging it.

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