Hello and welcome to the Vergecast. The flagship podcast of the Verge.com. I'm going to

tell you a couple of things. Just to start. One, it's just the three of us again. So I'm

here at Neilipotel, Deeders in San Francisco. I am luckily in San Francisco. I've had a week

and a half of just the worst travel. And Paul is here in New York. Hey, the other thing

I'm going to tell you is that Paul has next a box and empty box. They're building out more

of the studio here. And we have discovered something called the dinky link DL85K IR receiver

kit. So there's just I can't get rid of these IR blasters in dinky link real. It's called

the dinky link. It's a trade link. Dinky link. I think they should call like the IR blaster.

I are like trade consortium. They're building it. They're so sad that we got to keep it

gushed. And we save this for Paul's weekly feature that has the same name every week that

we never forget. No, no, I got that cover. He's got a cover. Okay. The third thing I will

tell the audience is that this was the week that we celebrated our nation's birth.

Mm-hmm. Fourth of July. And it's such 240 years. Yeah. Still going strong. Doing great.

Doing just fine. We're going to make it through. That could be that guy, but it's 241. See?

I don't know. I thought somebody said to me. And also not be that guy, but it's do you set

the the nation's birth at the declaration of independence or at the signing of the Constitution?

That's a big spread. I think of it as the I think of the declaration of independence as our

primary founding document because it lays out the principles upon which we were founded. And then

we try a couple things. Yeah, we iterate it. We pivot it. It's early days. And they spit

out the Constitution. They had up to 12 messaging apps. The declaration independence was our

minimum viable products. Thirdly, my third not to be that guy. And then we can move on is,

I just say that using the using the phrase birth and nation and a sentence together is a very

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