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Hello and welcome to The Verchcast, the flagship podcast of The Verge.com,

a website about technology, about the future, about your feelings, about USBC, about policy news,

mostly USBC. Mostly USBC. I'm trying to do pro-intros now. I'm Neil Ipatel,

I'm the editor-in-chief of The Verge. That's the website we were just talking about.

Deeter Bone is here, he's our executive editor. Hi Deeter. Hello, I'm here, well I'm here,

and I'm out there in the room with you, but I'm here. Paul Miller is here. Paul,

do you have a title anymore? I've asked the late between freelance and unemployed. It depends on

the context. Yeah, I get, I'm with you. Anyway, these are my two buddies. We talk about technology

every week. That's a good one. Hello. This is a strange week. We're going to, we're going to do a

bunch of stuff on the show that is interesting. Qualcomm, demoed 5G and Hawaii. Normally you'd think,

hey, we're going to send a reporter to Hawaii. That reporter is going to be really happy. I'll tell

you Sean Hollister who went to Hawaii for us to attend these demos. Mostly file the bunch of copy

that sounded tortured because the demos were, that's where we're going to talk about that. We've got

to talk about what is going on with Google and messaging. Because there's always something going

on with Google and messaging. Deeter's going to walk us to that. And we're going to have Rachel Beckeron,

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