Well, welcome everybody. This is the Verge cast. It's like the director's commentary for the Verge.com. My name is Dieter Bone.

My name is Christopher Plant. My name is Ross Miller. My name is Sam Phillips-Chefer.

Sam Phillips-Chefer, hype checks at intro. Wait, wait, wait. Is your name... your name actually Phillip?

Yeah. What? What? Why? I've known you for years. I've never known you had a middle name.

And my first name is Just Sam. Not Just Sam. Just Sam.

So not Samuel. No, yeah. Sam was. All right.

So yeah, it's been a week. I think that there's been a bunch of entertainment news that we definitely want to get into later.

There's a bunch... there's some sad news. But before we get into that, I want to let everybody know that we are going to have a slightly shortened Verge cast today.

It's going to be a little bit shorter because we just can't maintain without Niela. We don't know how to keep talking as it is obvious.

I know. We're actually going to be shorter because we are going to be premiering a episode of What's Tech, which is a new podcast from the Verge that's hosted by the friend of my left.

If you're watching the live stream. Chris Plant, you want to tell us a little bit about What's Tech?

Sure. We're going to get into it much more later.

Yeah. What's Tech is a show that is like 15 to 20 minutes because I prefer short podcasts that I can listen to on a morning commute or during a short workout session that explains technology one kind of corner of tech at a time.

So the first two episodes that are available like nowish or right after this are about drones and smart watches.

And it's amazing how even things that I kind of thought I did understand like smart watches you sit down with somebody who like really gets it.

Like, oh, I had no clue. And same with the drone's episode. That's what's been really fun. I mean, just for me as like an individual is learning from each episode.

Which I mean, you can't ask for anything better like to come into work and like be paid to get to learn about cool things from people who really really understand them.

I'm working on a special episode. We're hoping it's coming together for next Tuesday.

Oh, my God. You tease it. It can't. It can't happen. I am tech though. It is because there's very new definition.

That's something that people will find out very quickly. I imagine this is show goes on is the show is really what I want to talk about or learn about.

And I and I have to hope that people are kind of. You listen to it on a phone. So therefore tech. Yeah, I love how by episode two you're already like just breaking the title.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. I guess three technique episode three. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you'll see. I mean, I'm not giving away what this is. But I think it I think it'll be interesting to see how far we can stretch the idea of what technology is and how it fits in your life.

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