Tesla’s big, epic, confusing future

The Vergecast

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4.4 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Today on the flagship podcast of super helpful humanoid helper robots: 05:07 - The Verge’s David Pierce and Andy Hawkins discuss the latest at Tesla: new products, new initiatives, and a payday for Elon Musk. Tesla’s 2024 shareholder meeting: all the news about Elon Musk’s $50 billion payday Let’s speculate wildly about Tesla’s three mystery vehicles Tesla shareholders approve Elon Musk’s massive pay package — was there ever any doubt? Whatever Elon wants, Tesla gets 40:21 - Vee Song joins the show to discuss updates to the Apple Watch, a new Samsung Galaxy Watch, and more wearable news. Finally, the Apple Watch will let you rest - The Verge Samsung’s Galaxy Watch FE is its new entry-level smartwatch - The Verge The Pixel Watch 2 can now detect when you’ve been in a car crash Apple announces watchOS 11 with new training features and Live Activities Samsung sues Oura preemptively to block smart ring patent claims 1:02:54 - David and Liam James answer a question from the Vergecast Hotline about weather apps. Forecast Advisor Email us at [email protected] or call us at 866-VERGE11, we love hearing from you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the VirgeCast, the flagship podcast of super helpful humanoid helper robots.
0:07.8	I'm your friend David Pierce and I am sitting here buying bathroom vanities.
0:13.2	So my wife and I were having some work done in our house
0:16.9	partly to just like make our bathrooms nicer,
0:19.6	but also because one of them is starting to leak. if you're watching this on YouTube just out of
0:24.9	frame up there is just a growing stain and those are the things that start to happen and I just
0:32.2	see all of the money that I have in the world start to disappear.
0:35.0	So anyway, we've been starting to do some work on renovating our bathroom, making some changes,
0:40.0	and I have discovered that shopping for bathroom vanities is everything that is wrong with online shopping.
0:46.5	You go to the one of these websites, Wayfair or Lowe's or Home Depot or Amazon or Pottery Barn or Creighton Barrel, and it's just all the same stuff with different prices.
0:57.2	You have to become like a subject matter expertise.
0:59.9	I now know the difference between solid wood and all the different types of manufactured wood
1:03.6	and MDF which is bad but only in humid spaces.
1:06.6	Like why do I know these things?
1:07.8	This is not information I'm interested in knowing.
1:10.4	But there isn't really just a place you can go online that's like here are the good vanities.
1:15.0	This is like the endless challenge of shopping on the internet.
1:18.0	You can't really trust the reviews because everybody has these paid-for review programs.
1:22.0	Some of the pictures you see are helpful. because everybody has these paid for review programs.
1:22.8	Some of the pictures you see are helpful, some aren't.
1:25.7	Some of the one-star reviews are just about like weird things
1:28.6	that were happening in their house the day that things got delivered.
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