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Casey v. Kevin on US v. Google + Walter Isaacson on Two Years With Elon Musk

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The New York Times

Technology

4.35.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Is Google allowed to spend billions of dollars to make its search product the default browser? That is the question at the center of U.S. et al. v. Google — the most important tech trial of the modern internet era — and Kevin and Casey disagree on the answer. Then, a conversation with the journalist who spent the last two years shadowing Elon Musk.

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0:00.0

So, Casey, I want to start this week's show with an apology.

0:05.2

I love the sound of that.

0:06.9

So last week on the show, you said the word shot in Friday, but you pronounced it shade

0:12.1

in Freud, and I made fun of you, which was not nice because, you know, you don't speak

0:16.4

German, and maybe they didn't offer it at your high school.

0:18.9

And instead of mocking you for that, I realized belatedly that I should have been trying

0:23.1

to help you.

0:24.1

You truly could have been trying to help me.

0:25.9

So this week, I actually taught you German.

0:28.9

You taught me in German, because I don't remember that actually.

0:31.8

Well, I didn't do it in your presence.

0:33.6

I did it with the help of AI, but let's see the clip.

0:36.2

Oh, no.

0:38.1

I love children and I'm passive at the immobilian market, interested.

0:42.4

I love to be people who conflict with the needless people at work.

0:47.5

This is the place where I want to bring my social time.

0:50.5

It sounds like I just declared war on Australia.

0:55.4

So, Casey, you want to describe what you just saw?

0:57.3

I saw a fairly convincing video of myself sitting in my old home office talking into the

1:04.9

camera as a podcasting and appearing to speak German, a language that I don't know.

1:09.0

Well, you do now.

1:10.0

I do now, apparently, because there's this app.

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