This week on The Vertgaist we're doing two episodes. On this episode Tom Warren joins us talk about the next generation of consoles that's PS5, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, reviews of all of them. Then there's an Apple event next week, new Macs with ARM Procedures. God talk about that. That's coming up now on The Vertgaist.

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Hello, welcome to The Vertgaist, the flagship podcast of The Next Generation. It's good. It's like a hopeful... It's just a Star Trek podcast. We're just going to talk about John Luke McCart for the next two hours.

In many ways, I think we are. I'm your friend Eli, that's Dieter Bound. Hi, Dieter. Hey, how's it going? Tom Oren is here. Hello there. How are you?

We're doing all right, Tom. So we've brought in a Brit on this the 45th day of the American election. Here's what we're going to do. The election is not over as a record. This recording is on Thursday night. There is a lot of just dead ahead tech news to talk about.

There we had Xbox reviews. Tom did an Xbox review. We have PS5 news coming. Tom has written an explainer of how the controller works, which is apparently amazing. There's an Apple event next week. We're expecting our max. A lot of dead ahead gadget tech news to talk about.

And then there is a lot of election news, particularly platform policy election news. I was talking to Dieter earlier. We could not figure out how to manage the transition between those two things in one episode. We just couldn't. I was like, there is no segue available here.

Yeah, what's the audio equivalent of just like a line break, just like an HR bar, you know, the website, you just like, oh, we'll just put a break. It'll be fine. Yeah, right. We just can't. I mean, I think we've done a reasonably successful job of keeping it all together. But this week is just too much. So we're going to do something a little bit of an experiment.

We're going to have to smaller size episodes. We'll go over, regardless. I'm not going to tell you how long we think they're going to be because we're going to go over. But we're going to do this episode Xbox PS5 Apple event. There's some other stuff to talk about. That's this one. We're going to do another episode with Adi, both going to be in the feed at the same time with Adi. We're obviously going to talk about the election platform policy. What Twitter, Facebook YouTube have been doing around the massive amount of disinformation and chaos that has come about in this election process.

So both episodes are on the feed. If you want to hear the policy talk, go check out our conversation with Adi. If you come for the gadgets, here we are. We're talking about gadgets. The other thing I'm not doing is I'm not going to update the COVID website. It's 34 weeks. But I hopefully we're done talking about it. So we'll get back to the pandemic is still the biggest story in the world. I just think this week it is in some ways been eclipsed by what will happen with the future of American politics. So 34 weeks. We'll come back. We'll check.

We'll do that next week. This is the Xbox PS5 Apple episode. If you want to go talk about election policy platform stuff, go check out the episode clear, clear. Okay. Tom Warren.

Hello. There's like three new consoles, right? The series X the series S the PS5 you reviewed the series X and the series S this week. How to go?

Yeah. I mean, I went to bed at 4 a.m. and got up at 7 a.m. today. So that's how it went. It's been. Yeah, it's been it's been a it's been a ride. Yeah, can we just really quickly. Our listeners are savvy. And so they know that the job of reviewing a console isn't actually fun.

It is work. You're like you're playing games, but you're playing games with an eye towards judging things. And that's a completely different experience and just playing a video game.

Yeah, I thought I thought it was going to be fun. I was like, yeah, I'll do two expulsives. It's going to be fun. And that's not never a game. I'll wait 10 years until I do this again.

But yeah, so we we took a look at this series X and the series S and basically very similar sort of consoles except they're very different.

So. So once 499 the other one is 299 and like the 499 is the real like you know PS5 of Capetto and the 299 console is the sort of like it's the budget one. I guess it's the source snackable expuls the tiny expuls.

And yeah, I feel like both of them, even though they're very different. They kind of do very similar things. And I feel like they're very similar to like a PC.

So like in different generations before or like the whole idea of like a next gen consoles that brings something new and it like pushes the different games forward and tech forward.

And not seen that yet with every any of these consoles to be honest, maybe the PS5 controller.

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