The JWST's first space images, YouTube TV's bundle bet, and the Vergecast Hotline Q&A

The Vergecast

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News, Tech News, Technology

4.4 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Last week, we put a call out to people on Twitter about our new Vergecast Hotline, a phone line we set up for anyone to leave a message about a tech-related question they may have — whether it’s how to find your next router, when Spotify HiFi is actually coming, how to track when all of your favorite shows have new episodes, or whatever — so we can answer them on The Vergecast. We plan to do this about once a month, so if you missed it, that number is 866-VERGE11 (866-837-4311). It’s still open, and you can call at any time. We have a ton of great questions already, so we picked out a few voicemails we liked for today’s episode. Our colleagues — Verge reviewer Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, Hot Pod reporter Ariel Shapiro, Verge writer Cameron Faulkner, and managing editor Alex Cranz — help answer these questions on the show. You can hear that segment at around 31:00 in the episode. There’s a lot more in today’s episode as well. David starts the show with senior science reporter Loren Grush to chat about what it took to get those beautiful images from the James Webb Space Telescope we saw this week. In the middle of all of this, David spends some time on the show talking about YouTube TV — the video platform that is trying to make the cable bundle model work for streaming. Christian Oestlien, VP of product management at YouTube, talks about the goals for YouTube TV and its approach to bundling packages. You can listen to that segment around 20:44 in the episode. Email us at [email protected], we'd love to hear from you. Call our Vergecast Hotline! 866-VERGE11 (866-837-4311) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Earthcast, the flagship podcast of toll free phone calls.
0:06.2	I'm your friend David Pierce and I am currently in the car on the way to the Comcast store,
0:10.5	which is improbably a real thing that still exists.
0:13.8	Because after I don't even know how many years I finally canceled Cable, I'm having a
0:18.4	lot of feelings about it and we're going to talk about them later in this episode.
0:21.8	We have a lot more to get to today too.
0:23.4	We're going to talk to Lauren Grush about the James Webb Space Telescope, which I don't
0:27.0	know if you've seen has been putting out these unbelievable images of space like we've never
0:31.6	seen it before.
0:32.6	It's very cool and there's quite a story behind it, so we're going to dig into it.
0:36.3	We're also going to take a bunch of your questions.
0:38.0	We set up a Verge Hotline, which we'll talk more about later, but you guys sent in some
0:41.9	really great questions and we're going to get to as many of them as we can.
0:45.3	And in between, I'm going to have more feelings about Cable TV.
0:48.3	Anyway, we're going to get to all of that in just a minute, but before we do, I have to
0:52.1	run into the Comcast store and drop off this box.
0:54.8	So this is the Verge Cast, CNSEC.
0:56.4	How are you going to get to the work week with laptops from Intel V Pro and Intel EVO design?
1:05.5	With instant wake, lightning fast responsiveness and smooth multitasking, they help your team
1:09.9	do their best work.
1:11.3	How wonderful is that?
1:12.7	Visit intel.com slash works best for details.
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