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The Vergecast

The lives of YouTube moderators, a new smart home standard, and the Xbox Series X announced

The Vergecast

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Tech News, Technology

4.4 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2019

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

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0:00.0

This week on the Vergecast, Casey Newton joins us to talk about the lives of YouTube moderators.

0:04.4

We go deep on the new plan to combine smart home standards and one of the Z-Wave Alliance,

0:08.9

who's left out. And we talk about the Xbox Series X that's come up now on the Vergecast.

0:12.8

I'm Gideon Litchfield, I'm the editor in Chief of Oired.

0:15.5

And I'm Lauren Good, I'm a senior writer at Wired.

0:18.0

We're making a new show. Have a nice future.

0:21.8

I'm more have a nice future, question mark.

0:25.4

It's a show that is honest about how unsettling the future can be.

0:29.7

We're going to be bringing on the people shaping this future.

0:33.2

We're going to ask them about the big challenges we face, about the challenges they're creating,

0:37.7

and how they deal with living in perpetual uncertainty as we all do.

0:42.0

So make sure you follow Have a Nice Future, wherever you get your podcasts.

0:51.6

Hello and welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of the Vox Media Empire.

0:56.1

Can I tell you a story? Let's start with the story.

0:58.2

I saw Cara Swisher at a party, a company selling a little party.

1:01.2

I saw Cara and someone was like, hey, Cara, do you know that Neelah says the Vergecast is a flagship

1:05.9

podcast of the Vox Media? And she was like, what? Now, I was like, oh God.

1:09.3

And she's like, that's okay. I have the podcast of the year.

1:13.7

It was great. It was like a perfect car amazing.

1:15.7

She's like, you can have that. I don't need it.

1:17.4

Because I read Kasey Kade, it was AdWigs podcast here.

1:19.5

Anyway, I'm your friend Neelah. Paul Miller is here.

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