Jennifer Pattison Tuohy

I am.

Oh, the school spirit.

Yes, this is the South.

Go Tigers!

Always football season in the South.

That is very much the case.

So this is kind of the story for all the major platforms, honestly.

And, you know, we've had Anish Katakaran on the Verge cast.

We talked with him and he's the head of Google Home and he gave an impassioned comment.

defense of Google and the smart home.

And I just spent a few days at a conference around Matter where all of the engineers and people that make the smart home for these big platforms were there.

And they are all fully in on the smart home and Matter.

But the question is, are there bosses?

Like, how much further is this going to go?

And, you know, I do think

This time around, and I'm going to get a lot of hate for this, I feel like Google really is putting in the effort here.

I think the fact they spent nine months to ship this speaker after announcing it

I asked this question, why nine months?

Because we were making sure it really worked well with Google Home, Gemini for Home.

They've spent an awful lot of time re-architecting the foundation of Google Home.