Welcome to the Virchcast, the flagship podcast of Snow Days.

I'm your friend David Pierce, and it is, in fact, a snow day here at my house in Virginia.

We got, like, I don't know, 10 inches of snow maybe over the last 24 hours, which means I have

spent a lot of time outside shoveling, only to discover that my back and my legs are just pathetically weak.

It also means I've been indoors with my two small children for just an unbelievably long time.

We're all getting through it. It's going to be okay.

To everyone who is in the path of the storm over the last few days, I hope everyone's doing okay.

I hope everyone's doing okay for a lot of

reasons. There's a lot on right now. I hope everybody's staying safe and doing as well as you can.

Anyway, today on the show, we're going to talk about a lot of stuff. It's a weird episode of the

Vergecast, just is what it's going to be. First, Addy Robertson is going to come on, and we're

going to talk a little bit about what happened in Minneapolis with Alex Prattie this weekend. An awful story about a man who was killed by ICE agents. The story is horrific and sad. We've been covering it. Everybody has been covering it. I hope you're paying attention to it. And Addy and I are going to try to talk a little bit about how we experience things like this online and what we're supposed to do about it. We're also going to talk about the new TikTok, which both is part of that story and is just changing a lot on its own. The TikTok deal is done. We're going to talk about what happens next. After that, we're going to do just a full 90-degree context switch, and we're going to talk about podcasts. So Netflix has started doing podcasts. It's signed these big deals with these big podcasts. And all of a sudden, I open up the Netflix app and there's podcasts. And if that's not a PhD thesis in what is a podcast, I don't know what it is. So Nick Kwa, who writes for New York Magazine and is one of my favorite people to talk to about podcasts, it's going to come on the show and help me make sense of all of it. We also have a really fun question about phone calls

on the Burgecast hotline. Lots to get to. It's going to be great. But first, my kids are upstairs

and I have to go tell them to stop talking. That's literally what it is. Sometimes people are like,

David, do you make up things that you do? But no, you can probably hear my kids banging around upstairs. One of them needs a nap.

One of them needs lunch.

We got a lot going on.

I'm going to go deal with it, and then we're going to do this.

This is the Vergecast.

We'll be right back.

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