Hello! Welcome to the Omni Channel Curious episode of Slate Money, your guide to the business

and finance news of the week. I'm Felix Amonif Axios, I'm here with Emily Peck, also

of Axios. Hello, hello. And we are joined this week by the one and only Shira

Overday, welcome Shira. So fun to be here. It's very exciting. We are doing a complete techie

dive this week, but explain why we're talking about tech. Who are you? Introduce yourself.

Yes, I am Shira Overday. As you said, I write the on-tech newsletter at The New York Times,

which I believe we describe as a guide to how technology is changing our lives and world.

Everyone should subscribe to Shira's newsletter because she is amazing and it is an awesome

read. And ytimes.com slash newsletters. Subscribe to Shira's newsletter. The New York Times has

a lot of newsletters, but this is the best one. So subscribe to this one, even if you subscribe

to no other. We are going to talk all about exactly that. We're going to talk about the way

the Amazon has tried to reinvent physical retailing and doesn't seem to be doing such a great

job of it. We are going to talk about the internet broadly and how much we are all paying for it,

and do we really need to pay this much and it's the entire system broken? But of course,

we are going to start with the war and whether and where and how the tech companies are getting

involved and I guess providing their own front on which we can attack Russia. It's all coming up

on slate money. Okay, Shira, let's jump in here. There is still a war on. I feel this that

the war is going to supplant the pandemic as the only topic of old podcasting for the foreseeable

future. You are the tech person at the New York Times. Apparently, New York Times only has one

and it's you. Sorry, Kevin. What is the tech angle here? Yeah, we do have many excellent tech

reporters at the New York Times. I will just say that. Was Kevin on last week? I can't even remember.

Two weeks ago? Two weeks ago. Yes, Kevin and I and a bunch of other people. But yes, I mean,

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