Hello and welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of the Verge.biz.

But here's what I'm going to tell you.

This is a completely renegade episode of the Vergecast.

Our producer, Andrew Marino, is not here.

We are live foolishly on Hangouts on YouTube, which may or may not be working and there's

a live audience here chatting at us.

But I am at my parents house in Wisconsin.

Hi, Deeter, where are you?

I'm in a little town called Magnolia, Arkansas, which is a lovely town and it has meh internet.

Interestingly enough, I think it's the only internet option here is this meh internet.

Yeah, that's about right.

I also have meh internet that's the only option at my parents house here in Racine,

Wisconsin.

Paul, where are you?

I'm at the New York office and I'm literally the only person here other than some guy

who's going around cleaning stuff.

How's the internet in the office?

Well, that's exactly why I'm here.

When I am at home, I think my router is misconfigured and whenever, especially Google Hangouts

is the worst.

It just chokes and it just sits there and it doesn't work for a little while.

So as you might be guessing, as you may have surmised from our internet banter, we're

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