Hey everybody, before we start the VergeHast, Dieter and I want to tell you about two very cool things.

The first is that we are holding our 10 year anniversary event in New York City on October 22nd and 23rd.

It is called On the Verge and it is going to be very cool.

And the second is that at On the Verge, Dieter, hello my man, is going to premiere his very first documentary.

It's called Springboard, the secret history of the first real smartphone.

Dieter, what is it about?

It's about a little company called Hans Spring that time has almost forgot and how they struggled to make what I consider the first real smartphone, which I'm sure many send me and people are mad at me about.

But it's an exciting story because this is a company that year after year, month after month, almost became as big as Apple is today but just got held back by just crazy, crazy stuff.

Dieter finally made a documentary about a device that runs Palm and West. We're all very proud of him.

You have to watch it though because if you do, I get to make the one about WebOS later.

We're premiering this at our party. It's actually going to be a documentary premiere. We're going to have some other stuff around it. Dieter tells me there's a museum in the works.

It's going to be great. This is going to be the highlight of our entire event. We're super pumped about it.

There's all sorts of other stuff happening in this event. It's been amazing to watch this team put it together. It's our 10 year birthday party.

We wanted it to be about the verge and more importantly about the verge audience. We just came back from the code conference. We're going to talk about in the verge cast today.

Code conference all about billionaires and CEOs. Our event is about you. We wanted it to feel more about us and our audience.

We're going to obviously have a big opening party with a DJ group called the Stickman who perform in LED light suits. Very exciting.

There's a video on our website in the post. It's going to be so cool. We have an indie game arcade. We have experimental art installations, including obviously we got to have some Instagram moments. We have a creator showcase on the roof of the event venue.

We're going to have creators come and do talks and demos about what they're making with technology, which is the most verged thing that we can think of. And of course, we're not going to not have interviews. So we'll have a main stage of programming.

We're going to have a live verge cast with some verge cast all stars and the lungs from verge history. We're hoping to break some news with some people from tech companies.

We have a lot of ideas. It's going to be a great two days. We're premiering Deeder springboard documentary. We have all these experiences for you to have with us. We'd love for you to come. You can get tickets right now. You can go to voxmediavents.com slash on the verge.

Use promo code urge to verge in a discount. Oh my god. That's the promo code. Is that true? It's true. You get a $50 discount. If you use the promo code urge to verge voxmediavents.com slash on the verge October 22nd, 23rd. We would absolutely love to see you.

Okay. Let's do the reverse test. Be exuberant. Be electrifying. Be iconic. In the all electric lyric order yours.

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