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Michael Calore: This is the factory in Taiwan that builds the things.

Lauren Goode: That’s right. That’s right. Supposedly these chips are going to be ready next year, and that’s going to offer a lot of boosts in terms of performance, power consumption, just the area for computing. Like, that’s going to be an impressive leap, but it just hasn’t happened yet. So Apple’s continuing the March, with the MacBook laptops, but to Brenda’s point, this maybe isn’t like the biggest leap in chips that we heard about this week.

Michael Calore: Right. All right. Well, that seems like a good place to end it. So let’s take another break. And when we come back, we’ll do our recommendations.

[Break]

Michael Calore: OK, this is the last of the show where we all recommend things that our listeners might enjoy. Brenda, as our guest, you get to go first. What is your recommendation?

Brenda Stolyar: Stranger Things. Specifically, season four. I haven’t finished it yet. But, if you are the … I don’t know, probably only person on the planet that has yet to watch Stranger Things, just do it. You’re not cool if you don’t watch it. So far, I mean, I’m loving it. I know you’re also like-

Michael Calore: Yeah.

Brenda Stolyar: … on season four.

Michael Calore: Yep.

Brenda Stolyar: And the one thing about the show that I will say is every time a season comes out, I say, “This is my favorite season.” And I’m starting to think that season four might be my new favorite season.

Michael Calore: It’s a lot stronger than I was expecting it to be.

Brenda Stolyar: Yeah. I mean, what is it, $30 million per episode?

Michael Calore: That’s how much they’re spending?

Brenda Stolyar: Yeah.

Michael Calore: It feels like it.

Brenda Stolyar: I’m almost like 99.9 percent sure that it’s $30 million. So Netflix is just throwing money at this show, and I’m here for it.

Michael Calore: At least a million of that is going to Kate Bush because they play her song on a loop like throughout the entire season.

Brenda Stolyar: Oh my God, yes. She probably just woke up one morning and had it all-

Michael Calore: A good check.

Brenda Stolyar: Yeah. Had a lot more money.

Michael Calore: All right, well you know, also the episodes are really long. Each one is over an hour. So each episode feels like an installment in a film series, which is kind of nice.

Brenda Stolyar: Yes. Literally, usually I binge watch. And this one has taken me … I’m embarrassed to say I haven’t finished it yet, because I usually just watch it in one sitting. And these are taking me a little time.

Michael Calore: Yeah.

Brenda Stolyar: Like five hours go by and I’m not done.

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