Material is a weekly discussion about the Google and Android universe. Your intrepid hosts try to answer the question, “What holds up the digital world?” The answer, so far, is that it’s Google all the way down.

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    Latest Episodes

    #198: Google is a Hardware Company

    April 11th, 2019 · 71 minutes

    This week. Flo and Andy muse about all the ways that Google has transformed itself into a major hardware player. We talk about the midrange Pixel 3 rumblings, who analysts say is buying Pixel phones, and Google's next batch of Chrome OS devices.

    #197: No Wingnuts

    April 5th, 2019 · 77 minutes

    Flo details the death of her Pixel 3, while Andy takes us down memory lane with an excerpt from his Google+ archives. After the first break, we'll talk about the latest Bloomberg piece on how YouTube discouraged its employees from reporting toxic videos.

    #196: Quote Unquote

    March 28th, 2019 · 84 minutes

    #195: YouTube's Big Problem

    March 21st, 2019 · 82 minutes

    This week, a somber discussion about last week's Christchurch attacks and how YouTube's disaster team acted to stop the propagation of hateful messaging.

    #194: You've Been Sherlocked

    March 14th, 2019 · 93 minutes

    Andy helps Flo work out some feelings, and the two hosts agree that Google Home Minis have propagated like furry little tribbles. After the break, a full breakdown of Senator Elizabeth Warren's proposal to break up Google and the rest of Silicon Valley.

    #193: Generational Differences

    March 8th, 2019 · 70 minutes

    Gear up for a serious discussion about YouTube's content problem, what the company is doing to combat predatory commenters, and why we should be louder about our discontent over the platform's failure to properly curate child-friendly content.

    #192: The Fold Report

    February 28th, 2019 · 93 minutes

    Andy starts us out this week drunk (not really, it's a joke), and Flo can't wait to tell you about her new Android TV box. After the first break, plenty of talk about the foldable phones shown off at Mobile World Congress,

    #191: Doing the Deed

    February 21st, 2019 · 82 minutes

    Samsung isn't exactly Google, but we're going deep into the Galaxy S10 launch details this week. We're talking about the phones, the accessories, and the impact all these things will have on Android's bottom line.

    #190: Happy Palentine's Day

    February 14th, 2019 · 65 minutes

    Flo's hosting this week, so there is lots of talk of reality television in the first half hour of this show (IT'S RELATED!).

    #189: Ban-anated

    February 8th, 2019 · 81 minutes

    How do you reconcile using a service that's so helpful and simultaneously so invasive? We don't know, but we pondered about it.