This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human.

It's 227 on the planet Neptune, and you're listening to Nightcall.

Hey, everyone. Welcome back to Night Call.

I'm Molly Lambert, and with me today are my colleagues.

Tess Lynch and...

And I'm Emily Yoshida in New York with our first ever night call guest, Claire Evans.

Yo, yo.

Welcome, Claire.

And please remember always to leave us a message with a night call at 24046 night.

Or shoot us an email at nightcall podcast at gmail.com with all of your queries.

Claire is with us this week because she has written an amazing book called Broadband,

the untold history of the women who created the internet.

And it's really great and everybody should check it out.

We're going to talk about it in a little bit.

But we wanted to talk about a couple of important robots first.

Or like two or three important.

Let's get this straight.

Robots first, then women.

Well, that's the hierarchy of the future.

Look, there's the bread and the condiments and then there's the meat here.

So we're just,

that classic sandwich order.

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