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Hello and welcome to the Verge cast, the flagship podcast of everyone you work with having a baby at the exact same time and going on parental leave.

Both David Pierce and Nilay Patel are at home with newborns.

They're both going to take some time off, spend time with their families.

I'm Jay Kastronakis, executive editor of the Verge.

I'm going to be joined by an all-star cast from across the Verge every week, starting with two of the best reporters in business.

There were some big executive shakeups at Apple, at Meta, at X.

Grok went on a tear, called itself Mecca Hitler, I believe.

I'm going to go on a little bit of a power trip now that Nilay's gone.

The lightning round is done, as we know it.

But first, we've got to talk about Samsung.

They announced a whole bunch of new phones and smartwatches.

But first, I just want to, before we get into this, I want to read what Samsung said about

So they had their event in Brooklyn, and this is how they described Brooklyn, the borough in New York City.

They called it, quote, a borough with extraordinary spirit and a distinctive history.

Brooklyn is where visionary thinking and bold ideas shape the future, a place known for its culture, creativity, and collaboration.

Did you feel culture, creativity, and collaboration at Samsung's event?

So it was like a gazillion degrees with bajillion humidity on Wednesday when we went to unpacked.

So if you are a New York City native and I tell you that this was hosted at a couple of warehouses in Brooklyn Navy Yard, you will be groaning at this point in time.

But if you're not a New York native or you haven't been to this area of Brooklyn, it's the most inaccessible area of Brooklyn by public transit.

So there's just a line of Ubers trying to get in and very stressed out Uber drivers.

I do not know how to get to the Navy Yard.

It's like a mile walk from any public transit station.

So you either are going to make the choice of taking public transit to this event and having to walk a mile from the closest train station or braving the New York City bus system, which I'm a lifelong New Yorker and no, or you're going to take an Uber and like the vast majority of people thought I took the, I took an Uber and I think the vast majority of people, you were stuck in, you were stuck in traffic for like, Brooklyn trying to get to Brooklyn because they were doing road work outside my hotel.

So I was in gridlock for the first, it was just a mess all around.

Like we're just getting more and more desperate.

I said, Brooklyn Navy Yard is just a Navy Yard.

It's like a bunch of industrial brick buildings, like shipping container type warehouse building, fully metal.

So it was just, you know, Samsung branded.

There was a lot of unpacked flags going in there, but it's also a maze.

So you can go into the Brooklyn Navy Yard, probably have terrible signal and just be like, Oh, there's a bunch of just brick buildings with numbers attached to them.

And you're just hoping the GPS is going to get you to the right place.

And I mean, there were signs and everything and you just had to follow the Korean influencers.

There was a huge amount of Korean influencers and I really, you know, and I was telling

Allison this, Oh, cause you know, Samsung has a history of inviting K-pop stars.

I was like, there's an off chance that a K-pop star is going to come to this event.

We got influencers that look like K-pop stars and the K-pop Demon Hunter soundtrack just blasting.

And I was like, okay, I've heard good things.

But then we were going into the, or I was going into the main, the main green, it's called Dougal Greenhouse, this main metal container thing that we're going into.

And I have my hot box of water because they were being sustainable with the water bottles for everyone there.

My hot box of water, it was not cold at all, but I was like, I need to hydrate.

I'm not dressed like a Korean Demon Hunter Grim Reaper situation.

These influencers, I'm telling you, they were just like, they went all out.

The influencers were like in cosplay for a phone launch?

There was this one guy, I pointed him out to, to Allison.

I was like, I'm happily married, but look at this man.

I'm fairly certain he had beautiful, I was like, this man has to be wearing some sort of makeup.

They were not sweating somehow, but they were like in full, like kind of Grim Reaper regalia, like Korean Grim Reaper regalia.

There was like this one girl and she had like huge heels on and just like this modern hanbok, which is like Korean traditional wear.

And I was just like, we got some cosplayers in the house.

We didn't wear our Demon Hunter costumes.

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