This week, the crew chats everything from Super Bowl commercials to Ferrari interiors. After that, Shen comes back on the pod to talk batteries with Marques. Fair warning: before this episode is over pretty much everyone crashes out about something. Then we wrap it all up with some trivia. Enjoy!

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In this bonus episode, we get a behind the scenes look at what it took to make the "Year in the Life" video on The Studio channel! It's a behind-the-scenes of the behind-the-scenes episode as Eric and Rich talk with Marques and Andrew about some of their favorite moments that didn't make the cut (and more information on some that did). Needless to say, huge spoiler warning if you haven't seen the video yet. Go watch!

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This week, the crew sits down and immediately jump into the new Studio video that just dropped which documented all of 2025! After that, they discuss the news that Tesla is discontinuing the Model S and Model X. After that, they try to figure out what OpenClaw is before playing another game that Andrew made up! It's a fun one. Enjoy!

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This week, the crew sits down to talk about everything from new Apple AirTags to TikTok now being partially owned by the U.S government. Along the way they throw in some talk about the weather and Khaby Lame before wrapping it all up with a fun game that Andrew came up with! It's a long one but we hope you enjoy!

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Apple - New AirTag: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/01/apple-introduces-new-airtag-with-expanded-range-and-improved-findability/

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This week, the crew sits down to chat about everything from ads in ChatGPT and Threads to some OnePlus drama that just leads to reminiscing about old OnePlus phones. There is also a whole lot of new features coming to YouTube that we couldn't help but discuss. Enjoy!

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In this week's episode the cast is joined by Mariah Zenk and we discuss a phone that feels more like a camera than a phone, why a certain Fuji camera is being given away, everything is a subscription, and we wrap up the episode by explaining some non-tech news in tech terms. Enjoy!

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We're back! After a nice long holiday break we're back with 2.5 hours of complete chaos. We start off with a few quick updates before getting into everything from the new Pickle AR glasses that were announced to holograms and the Clicks communicators. Then we make our predictions for what we think is going to happen this. Enjoy!

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We recorded one more bonus episode before going on holiday break all about one of our favorite topics...cameras! In this one, Marques, Andrew, Adam, and Ellis all try to be David's favorite. The crew each picked their favorite 3 pictures that they've all taken with wildly different cameras and David goes through them to give feedback. It's half portfolio-review/half chaotic camera comparisons. We hope you enjoy and we'll see you next year for regular weekly episodes. Happy holidays!

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It's the last regularly scheduled episode of the year and the gadgets just keep coming! Marques, Andrew, and David get right into the Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold before talking about a new Instagram app and a new AI feature coming soon to a Gmail near you! After that, it's all about the EV world with discussion turning to the discontinuation of the Ford F-150 Lightning and then a quick recap on Rivian's Autonomy day. We close it out by recapping some of our best and worst predictions from last year. It's a chaotic one this week. Enjoy!

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This week, the crew sits down to talk smartphones. They go over each of the phones that Marques picked and offer a few hot takes along the way. On top of that they also talk about the Android XR show, a new smart ring from Pebble, and the Xiaomi SU7!

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We're back with a super long episode this week! First, Marques unboxes a special birthday present before we get into the Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold videos that dropped this week. Then it's all about all of the new features that are coming to Android and Pixel phones. After that, we go over YouTube Recap and Spotify Rewind before closing it out with trivia. Enjoy!

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