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Waveform: The MKBHD Podcast

Marques Brownlee

Leisure, Technology, News, Hobbies, Tech News

4.7 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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While Marques is out enjoying the Ultimate Frisbee on a beach somewhere, Andrew and David sit down to talk about everything from the new Steam devices to Google Gemini 3. After that, things go off the rails quickly as everyone discusses the pros and cons of local storage vs cloud storage. Enjoy! Shop the merch: https://shop.mkbhd.com Links: Valve - New Steam devices Tom's Guide - Rabbit next-gen hardware Tom's Guide - Employee payment story Google - Gemini 3 announcement blog Google - Antigravity announcement Verge - Cloudflare outage Damien Wilde YouTube channel Dave2D - Steam video ShortCircuit - M5 video @Privatetalky on Twitter/X - Storage tweet This episode brought to you by: Shopify: https://www.shopify.com/waveform Framer: https://www.framer.com/design (code: wave) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/MKBHD Wealthfront: https://www.wealthfront.com/wave T-Mobile: https://www.t-mobile.com/switch Music provided by Epidemic Sound Social: Waveform Threads: https://www.threads.net/@waveformpodcast Waveform Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/waveformpodcast/?hl=en Hosts: Marques: https://www.threads.net/@mkbhd Andrew: https://www.threads.net/@andrew_manganelli David: https://www.threads.net/@davidimel Adam: https://www.threads.net/@parmesanpapi17 Ellis: https://twitter.com/EllisRovin TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@waveformpodcast Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/mkbhd Music by 20syl: https://bit.ly/2S53xlC Waveform is part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This time for Black Friday at Dell Technologies.
0:02.7	Save big on PCs like the Dell 16 Plus featuring Intelcore Ultra Processors.
0:07.3	Shop now at Dell.com.
0:08.2	It's time for Black Friday at Dell Technologies.
0:12.8	Save big on PCs like the Dell 16 plus featuring Intel Corps ultra processors.
0:17.5	Shop now at Dell.combeer EK forward slash Black Friday.
0:25.6	This process. Shop now at Dell.com. Okay, forward slash Black Friday. This podcast is so gross. Marquez, I'm sorry.
0:30.6	Because I came to work and I really gave it my best effort.
0:34.6	I just tried to make a good podcast while you were gone.
0:38.0	And then all this happened.
0:40.1	I'm sorry.
0:46.0	What is up, people of the internet?
0:48.0	Welcome back to another episode of the Wave 4 podcast.
0:50.8	We're your host.
0:51.3	I'm David.
0:51.9	And I'm Andrew.
0:52.5	And I'm David.
0:53.8	And today, we got a lot of stuff going on. As you might have noticed, Marquez is gone. He's gone. Wait, what? I know. Where'd he go? I know we sound the same, but he's gone. Oh my God. I had no idea. Yeah, he's out being hot on a beach. He's throwing frisbees. I asked him, why are you doing world championships again? I thought you already won. Listen, I'm an ultimate player. Even this one's confusing. He was like, I'm gone for worlds. And I was like, you just brought. We did a whole episode of your trophy. Anyway, he's doing that on a beach now, so good luck, I guess.
1:29.3	Anyway, we got a lot of stuff to talk about this week.
1:31.9	We barely missed the Steam announcement last week, which is a bunch of new Steam hardware,
1:36.6	which is very exciting.
1:38.4	Sundar Pachai did us a big favor and dropped Gemini 3 on a Tuesday.
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