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Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of using your TV show to promote your YouTube channel. I'm your friend David Pierce. You have to tell us here. Hey, buddy. I keep saying it. No one's watching the TV shows, David. No, it really is. It's like we talked for so long about like social media as like a marketing platform for other stuff. Other stuff broadcast television is now a marketing platform for your YouTube channel. This is what we've come to.

Yeah, you're just selling ads at really high rates to local real estate agents, healthcare firms.

That's all it's there for. Yeah, this is what we do. So we have, we have a lot of news to cover.

There's a bunch of Apple stuff coming. We have new pixels. We have information about what's coming from Samsung.

We're like ramping up into gadget season again. There's also some AI stuff going on. The word autopilot is being debated. We're going to talk about that. But we have, every once in a while, our boy

Brendan breaks containment. And it is time. We have, we just have to do this at the top, Eli. It's just time. We are going to begin today's show with America's favorite podcast within a podcast. Brendan Carr is a dummy. We should say we're recording this on Wednesday morning, which is earlier than we normally record because, Neelai, I think you have to go do like little kid winter break things. We have vacation. It's winter break. Yeah. You got to let the kids run free. Yeah. So we're recording this early. And our other option was to have you like call in with a Pina Colada again. But we're here. This story will keep changing. We're recording this on Wednesday. To be clear, I was going to do the Pina Colada call in, but Brendan it. Yeah, thanks, Brendan, with new theme music submitted by Christopher Sullivan, who described this, which I have not heard and I'm deeply terrified by, as, quote, a free jazz slash brain rot remix. Good IDK, unique. Yes. Here we go. All right, we're back. Okay, so today i'm doing something a little bit different

is it time is it time do we have neli he did it he was he was particularly done this week

it's time it is time now it's time once again daddy chill for america's favorite

podcast or the podcasts so delicious brand. Brennan Carr's dummy. Brennan Carr is a dummy. Oh, that ain't no one away. Renic Carr is a dummy. Nealai, what do you do? He's such a dummy. That's great. He's such a dummy. That's great. Doot to doot. God.

Beautiful.

Okay, I don't want anyone to submit theme songs anymore.

The party horns really got me that one.

The doot to do is nice, though.

I think anyone who does submit should use the Nilai doot to do as often as possible. That was everything I wanted it to be. It was ominous. It was scary. It was oddly pornographic. One more can you ask for? Thank you very much. That was lovely. Christopher, thank you. Let me just very briefly set up where we're going here. And then, Nilai, I'm just going to, I'm going to leave for a while and you can just yell.

So the other night, Stephen Colbert comes on his show and says that he had originally planned to interview

James Tilarico, a Texas Senate candidate for his show. And then goes into a long explanation about why that's not going to happen, which starts with an explanation

of our buddy, Brandon Carr, who has just made himself a character on late night television shows.

So Colbert explains this out. It then posts James Telerico's interview on the late show YouTube

channel. That I'm looking at it this morning. We're recording this on

Wednesday. That video now has five million views, which is substantially more than the number

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