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5 min read🎙️ The Voices & The Context
- The Format: Casual chat among three hosts with rants, tech news breakdowns, and interactive games/trivia.
- The Key Players:
- Marquez, Andrew, David – Waveform podcast hosts with sharp tech insider chemistry; Marquez leads weather rants, Andrew gripes on apps, David adds sarcasm.
- The Vibe: Fun, banter-filled, and hilariously sarcastic – like friends roasting tech hype over coffee.
🗝️ Key Themes & Topics
Hosts dive into January tech news with rants, skepticism, and games amid snowstorms.
- Weather YouTube as Tech YouTube: Marquez draws parallels between storm-chasing meteorologists (big channels hyping models, small ones finding angles) and tech reviewers covering launches – traditional media sensationalizes like CNN on phones.
(~5:00) - Khaby Lame's $975M "Deal": Skepticism over TikTok star selling likeness rights to Rich Sparkle Holdings for AI cloning; hosts call out inflated $4B annual revenue claims as scam-like hype.
(~25:00) - AirTag 2.0 Update & Minor Apple News: Sarcastic roast of louder speaker (F to G note), precision finding tweaks – "news of the year" irony; plus Final Cut Pro updates, Creator Studio logos.
(~50:00) - Samsung Trifold at $2,899 & Foldable Futurism: Price barrier for 3-fold phone; sparks iPhone Fold speculation (iPadOS? $2K+?), S26 privacy screen teasers. Tik
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:49) **Weather YouTube Genre**
- 2 (12:19) **Khaby Lame's $975M Deal Skepticism**
- 3 (20:09) **Google Image Download Frustrations**
- 4 (24:57) **BBK Electronics Disbandment**
- 5 (26:36) **Apple AirTag 2 Update**
- 6 (42:37) **Samsung Galaxy Trifold Pricing**
- 7 (46:32) **iPhone Fold Software Speculation**
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Show Notes
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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Links:
PR Newswire - Khaby Lame press release: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/rich-sparkle-holdings-closes-acquisition-of-tiktok-icon-khaby-lames-core-company-302658017.html
Verge - TikTok banning words: https://www.theverge.com/news/868362/tiktok-epstein-ban-hoax-rumor-not-true-stop-it
Verge - The TikTok deal is done: https://www.theverge.com/tech/866437/tiktok-usds-bytedance-sale-oracle-mgx
Verge - Samsung Trifold pricing: https://www.theverge.com/news/868190/samsung-galaxy-z-trifold-us-price-release-date-availability
Apple - New AirTag: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/01/apple-introduces-new-airtag-with-expanded-range-and-improved-findability/
TechCrunch - TikTok: https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/23/tiktok-users-freak-out-over-apps-immigration-status-collection-heres-what-it-means/
Music provided by:
Epidemic Sound
Social:
Waveform Threads: https://www.threads.net/@waveformpodcast
Waveform Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/waveformpodcast/?hl=en
Waveform TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@waveformpodcast
Hosts:
Marques: https://www.threads.net/@mkbhd
Andrew: https://www.threads.net/@andrew_manganelli
David: https://www.threads.net/@davidimel
Adam: https://www.threads.net/@parmesanpapi17
Ellis: https://twitter.com/EllisRovin
Mariah: https://www.instagram.com/totallynotabusinessacc
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