Welcome to a special emergency episode of the Tech Mem Ride Home Podcast. I'm Brian McCullough.

As I said on today's normal episode, when I heard the news this morning about Spotify and

podcasting, I reached out to Nick Qua on a whim, but I didn't expect to hear back because I knew he was in Malaysia visiting family.

Ain't that always the way? It's when you go on vacation that the newsbeat you basically invented

has its biggest news cycle ever.

Well, Nick was kind enough to jump on Skype right away.

Might be a good idea to listen to today's episode

for Context First, but you're about to have some analysis of today's news

from the foremost authority on the subject and also okay and now as promised Nick Quois also.

Okay, and now as promised, Nick Qua, on the day's big podcasting news.

Thanks for being willing to jump at a moment's notice there.

Oh my God, it's been... I'm so tired.

You know what?

I have to turn around another piece for vulture in a couple of hours.

You know what, can we be recording now because I want, let's start there.

Well, right ahead.

I'll tell you, this is my setup right now.

I have like a beer open and I'm like cheering on a bun

So I take it the last I don't know 72 hours have been a little crazy for you. Yeah, it's not great

All right, well then, let's start, let's start with, let's start with the most recent news. By the way, full disclosure, Anchor is our web host or our podcast host. So where did this

Anchor deal come from? I can't speak to the sort of the tick talk of what exactly happened behind the deal-making,

but on the face of it the Spotify acquiring anchor makes a ton of sense.

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