Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of treadmills that don't fit anywhere in my house.

So I'm moving and we have this new room in our new house that is basically, it's like a big closet.

But my wife looked at it and was like, oh, wouldn't it be cool if we use that as like an exercise room?

It has no windows.

It's just like a seven foot by five foot cave.

And she's like, what if we put a treadmill in there? So we've been shopping for treadmills.

And it turns out that treadmills are either horrible or $7,000. And in many cases are both of those things.

So if you have an idea of a treadmill that isn't gigantic,

isn't horrible, and isn't $7,000, please tell me, my family is dying. We need this. Thank you.

Anyway, that is not what we're here to talk about. Actually, we are here a little bit to talk

about treadmills, but we're going to get to that later. We're going to do two things on the

Vergecast today. First, we're going to talk more about the smart home. We talked a lot about Amazon and Alexa and Echo devices last week. This week, we're going to dig in to what Google is really up to. I think Google is maybe the company best set up to figure out the smart home, but it's been trying as long as anybody and

hasn't really made any progress. So we're going to talk to Anish Kadukharin, who runs a lot of

that stuff at Google and try to figure out whether Google or anybody is actually set up to do this

well and do it now. After that, we're going to talk to V-Song about what is going on with Peloton,

because Peloton, a company I hadn't thought about in a long time, announced a bunch of really interesting and really expensive stuff last week. So we're going to get into what it all means and whether the Peloton people are going to be into it. We also have a really fun question on the Vergecast hotline that may or may not lead you to buy many more gadgets and put them all over your body.

All of that is coming up in just a second, but first, I just found this treadmill that is $200.

My wife sent me a link. I'm confident it's horrible, but I have to go read reviews.

Please send help. This is the Vergecast. We'll be right back.

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