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I'm Ricky. I'm Ricky Mulvey joined today by Mac and Cheese expert Jason Moser.

Jason, thanks for being here.

Man, you're making me hungry already, Ricky, how's it going?

It's going pretty well.

I want to dive into this Google Alphabet antitrust story because there was another sort of shot across the bow from the Department of Justice.

Late on Tuesday, they indicated in a court filing they might be trying to break up that tech giant due to antitrust concerns

in the online search market and the most recent filing writing quote the starting point for addressing

Google's unlawful conduct is undoing its effects on search

distribution end quote.

So for those just catching up, those who just landed into this story, Jason, what's the beef

that regulators have with Google?

Right. Well, in short, the Justice Department alleges that Google has, as you noted, used

unlawful tactics, ultimately to stifle competition and lock advertisers and

publishers into its impressive suite of tools and I mean when you think about

the strength of Google a lot of it is in the data right Google is able to share

a data and in customize advertising according to usage across all of these

different platforms that they that they own and operate, right?

Chrome, Android, play, YouTube, and more.

And so what we've seen through the years,

it's just become a massive competitive position

for this business, hence, hence the DOJ's focus on it now.

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