What if there was a better way to talk to all your friends than through a thousand different messaging apps on a thousand different platforms?

What if you could just find the show you wanted without browsing through infinite tiles in a hundred different streaming apps?

What if you could have all of your stuff everywhere without dealing with some crummy user interface on some unknowable file sharing platform?

This month on the Vergecast, we're looking into connectivity. How we talk to each other, how we talk to our stuff, how we find things online.

All this month, on the Vergecast, available wherever you get podcasts.

You are listening to BGN Radio with Brandon Lee Gowell and Jimmy Kemsky.

What's going on, everybody? This is BGN Radio, episode number two, twenty one, I think, doesn't matter.

With me, as always, is Brandon Lee Gowell and I'm Jimmy Kemsky from PhillyVoice.com. It is a bad time in the Empire for the Philadelphia Eagles coming off a Scooby-Anne Ugly loss to the Las Vegas Raiders out in the desert in a lesion stadium or better known as the Big Roomba.

Yeah, just Ugly across the board in that game, offense defense and special teams, but really Ugly, particularly on the defensive side of the ball, offense wasn't much better, but when you give up thirty-one of thirty-four pass attempts for completions, not great. Brandon, how you doing, buddy?

Jimmy, how can I be doing great than intro like that? You know, look, this is the time of the podcast where I usually have some kind of, you know, maybe something interesting, slightly interesting to say, or some flowery flowery intro, or I even talk about the fact that BGN Radio is brought to you by right to Smell and Craft Turkey, which you can go to right to Smell and.com.

He's discount code BGN15 for 15% off, but I can't do any of that right now because I am really frustrated with this football team.

As a lot of Eagles fans are, Jimmy, you called me, a little peek behind the curtain here. You called me on Wednesday to figure out when we were going to be recording this podcast.

We've had a conversation on the phone that really should have been saved for the podcast on my end, because I was just ranting about the Eagles and how frustrating they are.

So we'll get into that a little bit later, but I feel like we have some housekeeping stuff to start out with first.

Yeah, let's do the news, which was post-game on Monday. I think, yeah, Monday, the Eagles traded, of course, Joe Flacco, to the New York Jets, which in turn, it makes Gardner Minshue, the number two quarterback behind you on Hertz.

They also signed, what the hell is his name already? Read and that reads and that reads and that. Yeah, so they signed him from, they, excuse me, they claimed him off of Waiver's former Miami Dolphins quarterback,

was potentially in line to play, had Jacobi Presett got in hurt during the time when two of Takavai Lowe was hurt, but he's now in Eagle, he's the number three, Minshue, the two, Hertz, the one.

Eagles take a $2.4 million cap hit, which you don't often see when you trade a quarter of any player on a one year deal, but because they were so cap constrained at one time during this year.

They put like four dummy years on his contract, even though it was a one year deal, and instead of just having that be a normal, like, guaranteed salary that they could have traded off to the, you know, his new team.

It's money that's already paid to Joe Flacco, so it stays on the Eagles cap, they do get a six-round pick in return.

I think Adam Kaplan said that it was a pick that the Jets own from the Buccaneers in the six rounds, so it's not even going to be a high six.

It's going to be a late six for the Eagles, they can apparently become a five. I don't have the conditions yet, I haven't asked any Eagles for it.

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