Hello, and you're listening to The Verge Cast, the flagship podcast of zombie kisses.

I'm your friend, Alex Kranz, and we've got a big show today.

Obviously, we're going to be talking about the last of us with Charles Pullia Moore.

It's going to be really, really exciting, and we're going to be talking about the zombie

kisses.

So, if you haven't seen the latest episode of The Last of Us, probably should go ahead

and skip that part.

Right now, though, I'm making cocktails.

I'm making something called a jet pilot, which involves a lot of booze, a lot of

juices, a little ice, and a blender, and it wouldn't exist if non-compete had existed

in the bartending world in the 30s, because it's based on something called the zombie.

The bartenders took the idea for it, went to another hotel, made it, it's delicious.

And it also makes sense, because I'm going to be talking about non-compete on the show

today.

I've got Margaret O'Mara coming on.

She's a professor.

She's written this incredible book called The Code, all about the creation of Silicon Valley.

She makes a really smart case that the Silicon Valley we know today might not be the same

if non-compete had been enforced in California in the 50s and 60s.

It's going to be really, really fun.

I'm super excited for you guys to hear it.

We've also going to be doing the hotline today, so we've got a lot of your questions in,

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