Welcome to the Virge Cast, the flagship podcast of Super App Regulation. I'm your friend

David Pierce and I am what I would call desperately on a hunt for solar

eclipse classes. It's Monday morning, it's like three and a half,

four hours until the eclipse and like a super genius planner that I am just didn't go get eclipse

glasses. I think I sort of thought that sunglasses would work.

Turns out that is not correct and terrible science and you should not listen to me

about anything to do with the eclipse. So now I'm running around trying desperately

to get glasses and so far it's not happening.

Target was out. Staples had a sign on the door that clearly somebody had just like hastily

printed basically saying like leave us alone we don't have any eclipse glasses.

I'm now going to every sort I can think of,

including some that just obviously won't have eclipse glasses,

trying to convince someone to sell me these classes.

I have realized I will pay what amounts to an alarming amount of money for these classes, but I don't think it's going to happen.

Anyway, we have an awesome show coming up for you today. I was in New York last week and took the opportunity of all being in the same city to drag

Nelai into the studio and grab Alex and just talk about Tik-Tok and Apple and all of the stuff

that's been happening over the last couple of weeks.

We've talked a lot about the Tik-Toc ban and Apple Antitrust and we've heard a ton from you.

Questions you have for us, thoughts you have about the things that we think,

feelings you have about all of what's going on, and we figured

we just spend an hour talking about it.

We got a bunch of really great emails and a bunch of really great hotline questions, and so that's

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