Why AM radio and Ethernet still matter, and why Zelda keeps winning

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 24 May 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Today on the flagship podcast of the Purah Pad: 02:19 - Senator Ed Markey chats with Nilay Patel about the importance of keeping AM radio in cars after many EV manufacturers have started to remove it from new models. Cars would be required to keep AM radio under new bipartisan bill The shift to EVs is slowly killing off AM radio — and that’s bad for emergency broadcasts 22:09 - Alex Cranz and Sean Hollister talk with SVP of networking at Nvidia Kevin Deierling live at the Computer History Museum for the 50th anniversary of ethernet about the future of connectivity. Wired: 50 years of ethernet CHM Live | Ethernet@50 52:51 - David Pierce, Alex Cranz, and Ash Parrish discuss why The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom works so well and what the rest of the gaming world should do about it. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom review: new powers, new places, but less wonder A conversation with The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’s creative leads Tears of the Kingdom’s dungeons were designed with seamlessness in mind Tips and tricks to get you through Tears of the Kingdom Zelda players turned Tears of the Kingdom into a Korok torture chamber The wildest Tears of the Kingdom builds we’ve seen Tears of the Kingdom’s puzzle designers are fantastic trolls Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom walkthrough and guides - Polygon Email us at vergecast@theverge.com or call us at 866-VERGE11, we love hearing from you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of the Pura Pad.
0:05.9	I'm your friend David Pierce and I'm doing the only thing any of us have been doing the
0:10.0	last couple of weeks.
0:11.0	I'm playing the Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom.
0:13.8	I'm so pretty early in the game and I only just a minute ago discovered that I can stick
0:19.2	a rock to a tree branch and suddenly I have the coolest bludgeoning weapon ever, so
0:24.2	that's neat, big fan of that.
0:26.0	Anyway, we have a great show for you today.
0:28.2	We're going to talk about AM radio and why there's suddenly a big fight about whether
0:32.3	your car should have it going forward.
0:34.6	We're also going to talk about the 50th anniversary of Ethernet and the future of super fast
0:39.1	wired connections.
0:40.1	I'm just realizing this as I say it, but we're kind of doing an old text still matters
0:44.4	thing this week and I dig that.
0:46.6	And lastly, we're going to talk about Tears of the Kingdom.
0:48.8	What makes this game special?
0:50.2	Why we can't stop playing it and what the rest of the gaming industry should do about
0:54.2	it.
0:55.2	All that's coming in just a second, but first I have to figure out how to get to the
0:58.0	shrine over there without falling down the waterfall for like the 56th time.
1:03.2	Here goes nothing.
1:04.2	This is the Verge Cast.
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