Hello and welcome to the VRT-CAST. The flagship podcast of the VRT-DOT-Biz. I've really settled

on DotBiz for that trick. And part of the Vox Media Podcast Network, and I have an important

update on the Vox Media Podcast Network and our status within it. Today, I saw Ezra

Klein, my friend and enemy, and I said, hey man, you know I've started this beef with you

on the podcast. And it looked at me and said, oh, I haven't been listening. So that's

where we are at that. But part of the Vox Media Network, the flagship podcast of the

VRT-CAST and quite honestly the entire podcasting industry. So I am Neelai Patel and the

Energy of the VRT-CAST. Paul Miller is here. Hello. And the man, the legend, the complete

Virge Hero byline dominator, Dieter Bones. Yeah, can we like clap for Dieter? It's

kind of you. I want to point out that I still didn't write more post that day than Heimg

Gardenburg. Don't worry, you keep practicing. So the bone zone, in effect, this is basically

an all Google show with a side of open standards complaining. That's where we're going to

be. And just just to be clear, it's almost like it's a Virge cast. If you did it go to

the verge.com yesterday, you know, a lot of you know, it's a multi-platform experience.

Yeah. So maybe you weren't there. But there was definitely a moment where our whole hero

full of, I don't know, 20 stories all written by Dieter Bones with exclusive never before

seeing information about everything Google announced. It was pretty amazing. Yeah. So Google

had its big hardware event yesterday. I'm just going to do a tiny little bit of

insight baseball. So if you have been watching the tech industry for a long time, you know,

come and do some big events. They invite some journalists in early, get some pre-briefs.

You know, in the magazine days, you get the big cover of the magazine. They invited Dieter.

But what we decided to do was instead of writing the one big feature, how Google is going

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