Welcome to The Verge Cast, the flagship podcast of The Console Wars.

I'm your friend David Pierce and I am sitting here on my back patio pulling weeds out from

between all of the bricks back here.

You know, I really admire people who like gardening and I kind of get why it could be

cathartic and good and whatever and I guess like yay for people who have green thumbs,

but God I hate this.

I've tried putting bleach out here, I've tried boiling water, I've tried baking soda,

I've tried all the weed-begon stuff.

I just want to like carpet bomb this patio so nothing can ever live back here again, but

I understand why that's a bad idea.

If you have suggestions though or tips on how to make this a less horrible process, I'm

desperate.

Please.

Anyway, in happier news, we have a great show for you today.

We're going to talk about the FTC versus Microsoft trial and what it means for the future

of video games, plus what we're learning about the PlayStation versus Xbox fight.

There's been a lot of really good drama the last few days.

Then we're going to talk about the latest attempts at passing legislation to protect

kids online and why we haven't really been able to do that in more than two decades.

And after that, we'll talk about the Pixel Fold, the Razer Plus and the folding flipping

future of smartphones.

All that's coming in just a sec, but I promise myself I would at least weed this back corner

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