You don't normally tune into a late-night TV show expecting a rigorous debate about free speech,
but somehow this is the world we live in.
This week on The Vergecast,
we're talking about how FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr has turned his agency into the speech police and why it's falling to people like Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel to fight back.
That, plus the gadgets we are and maybe aren't getting from Apple and others this year,
and the latest in the chat box worse.
On The Vergecast, wherever you get podcasts.
Hi, and welcome to Today Explained Saturday.
I'm Asted Herndon, and every week, I'll be talking to someone in the news,
in the culture, or just exploring an idea I can't get out of my head.
Now, this week is a little different because I have something embarrassing to admit.
I have not really followed the Epstein files as closely as I should have.
Now, of course, I've tracked the news.
I've seen people losing their jobs, the former Prince Andrew getting arrested.
I know Epstein was a monster.
But like most Americans, I haven't sorted through all those documents,
separated truth and fiction, and I have a lot of unanswered questions.
So this week, we decided to dig into it.
But first, we started with an exercise.
I wanted to write out everything I already knew about Epstein, the things I know to be true,