Welcome to the Virge Cast, the flagship podcast of Undersea Cable Management.

I'm your friend David Pierce and I am sitting here after a bunch of travel doing what it turns out I do like a few times a year which is basically

get bored with all of my gadgets and instead of buying new gadgets I try to just like change

everything about the ones that I have to make them more interesting.

So like I just took the monitor on my computer off of a stand which I've had it on for a while and

put it on to a monitor arm.

Does that make any difference?

No, but it feels new now, and that's very exciting.

Like I changed the lock screen on my phone

and I switched it from dark mode to light mode.

Suddenly, feels like a new phone the real best

version of that by the way is buy a new case or take the case off all of a sudden

it's like you have a completely new device and it only cost you a few dollars or absolutely nothing at all. I also

change the watch face on my Apple watch. I tend to like go from one pair of

headphones to another pair of headphones for a while. I'll change the wallpapers on all of my devices.

It just kind of makes everything feel new and exciting without actually making any meaningful changes.

Because otherwise if I let this feeling go on long enough, I end up buying something I absolutely do not need or like

upgrading my perfectly good computer just out of sheer like need to have something new.

So I figure a wallpaper is probably easier and

definitely cheaper. Anyway, we have an awesome show coming up for you today. We're gonna do

two things. First, we're gonna talk to Josh Jeza who has spent a long time reporting a big story for the

verge about undersea cables, and what that means basically about the infrastructure of the

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