This week on the merch cast, a packed show, Casey Newton is here to talk about his massive

Facebook scoop. We get into all of the Microsoft news and we go deep on that neutrality.

That's the merch cast, come up now.

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Hello and welcome to the merch cast, the flagship podcast of the Vox Media ecosystem,

whose walls grow ever taller, but whose comfort and services grow ever more lush. That's good.

Casey Newton, you're here with us. How are you? I'm good. Hey, Neelay.

Deeter Bone. I also am lush. Oh, I'm a lush. There it is. Both. Paul Miller is here.

It's a big week. There's a world in which this is like a six to seven hour show,

just because of everything that's happened this week. There was a huge Microsoft event,

iOS 13, deep fusion, launched, unlaunched. There's a net neutrality ruling that we got to talk about.

But I think for my money, the biggest news of the week came from our man Casey Newton,

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