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I'm your friend David Pierce, and we have a super fun episode coming up. We're going to talk about YouTube and phone calls and all kinds of stuff. But first, I just want to quickly tell you about a show that we're launching. I'm super excited about this. We've been working on this show with a really awesome team of people all year, and we finally get to show it to you. It's called version history and we've been calling it a rewatch show about technology. Here, let me just play the trailer for you. You'll get the idea. Let me tell you about a show we're launching here at the verge. Do you ever watch or listen to those like rewatch podcasts where a bunch of people go through episode by episode and talk about all their favorite stories and all the stuff that they remember. We're going to do that, but with tech. None of that existed back

that. That pared down funkiness of it still works. We're talking about products from the Zune to

guitar hero. Wow, it's very 2005. And software from line wire to BBM. This was the selling point.

Going through how all this stuff came to be and why it matters. I feel like when I hold it, I'm in some sort of 80s movie. That's the whole verge. Like, that's what we do here. Every week on YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts. It's called version history. Check it out starting Sunday, October 5th, and every Sunday after that, see you there.

I have to tell you, I'm very, very excited about this show. So here's the way it's going to work. The show is launching Sunday, October 5th, and the first eight episodes. We've made eight episodes so far, and I think they're all very fun. I have a favorite, but I'm not going to tell you which one of it is. The first eight episodes are going to play on the Vergecast feed and on the Verge's YouTube. After that, we're going to keep making the show, but it's going to be on its own feed. It's going to still be on the Virgin's YouTube channel, but it's going to be on its own podcast feed. So I'm going to spend the next eight weeks reminding you to please go subscribe to the version history wherever you get podcasts. And I will do it with increased urgency and fear and rage every single week. But really, this show is super fun. We have a

great team of people who have been working really hard on it. And I cannot wait to show this thing to

you because I think it's awesome. Version history, October 5th, go subscribe.

All the links you need are down in the show notes.

It's going to be so much fun. I can't wait. But for now, we have a Vergecast for you. And it's a good Vergecast. I'm very excited about this episode. We're going to do two things. First, we're going to talk about what's going on with YouTube. The company had one of its biggest product announcement events of the year

last week and shipped some stuff that I found slightly confusing and slightly surprising. So

Miyazato on our team is going to come on and help me make sense of it. Then it's going to be

time for round two of David's somewhat deranged summer takes, which I'm very excited to shout into

a microphone and have Jake and Hayden tell me how insane I am. We also have a question from the Vergecast hotline, lots of stuff to get to. It's going to be a really fun show. All of that is coming up in just a second. But first, I have to go buy more old gadgets on eBay, because thanks to version history, that's a thing I do now. This is the Vergecast. We'll be right back.

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