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Every year, hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world flock to Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show.

And they spend a week trying to sell each other on the weirdest gadgets you've ever seen in your entire life.

This week on the Vergecast, we're talking all about everything happening at CES, from the TVs to the AI gadgets, to the humanoid robots that everybody is hoping might someday do your laundry and wash your dishes.

All that and much more on the Vergecast wherever you get podcasts.

From the Vox Media Podcast Network, this is Channels with Peter Kafka.

That is me.

I'm also the chief correspondent of business insider.

And if you've been listening to this show, if you've been reading the stuff I've written,

if you read anything about the election, you've heard about the podcast election,

you've heard about the Manosphere, you've heard with the rise of right wing slash conservative podcasts.

And we can tie all those up with one guest. He's here with me today. It's Chris Belf. He runs Red Seat Ventures. Welcome, Chris. Thank you. Thanks for having me. I did get your name right, right? You got it. Nailed it. I've known you for a long time. I met you when you were working with Glenn Beck.

That's right.

Yeah, maybe 2006 or something like that. I've known you for a long time. I met you when you were working with Glenn Beck back in the days.

Yeah, maybe 2006 or something like that, so maybe almost 20 years.

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