Hey everybody, it's Neili from The Verge Cast.

You might notice this isn't a normal Verge Cast episode

in your feed.

We're trying something a little different.

Here's what's going on.

We've been trying a lot of new things on the show,

segments, new hosts, interviews.

People have given us a lot of feedback.

And most of it's positive, but the show's

starting to get a little overstuffed.

Everyone's telling us there's too much going on

in the Verge Cast.

So we decided we really liked the interviews

that can probably stand alone.

So we're going to start doing a second episode

of The Verge Cast every week, just focused on those

interviews.

Probably published Tuesday, Wednesday,

and then the regular crazy Paul Miller Verge Cast

happens on Fridays.

So first up, we have Brad Smith, who's

a president and chief legal officer of Microsoft.

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