After a bit of catch up on and even more flexing of their shared pop culture knowledge, Andy and Flo get to the bottom of why they're not yet considered Gympie-Gympie Bush influencers in Google's podcasting search engineer. Then, the two laments over Apple users' demonization of the green bubble, before expanding on why Google has made so many changes to its privacy policies in the last year. Before we close off the episode, a bit on Google's Go strategy, and why YouTube considers videos of fighting robots to be animal cruelty.

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Links and Show Notes:

• Intro to 15:00: Flo and Andy flex their pop culture muscles (And Andy talks about his visit to Boston's Comic Con)

• 15:30: Why aren't we considered Gympie-Gympie Bush influencers yet?

• 21:30: Why we don’t want you and your Android green bubbles in our iMessage chat

• 37:30: Google stops sharing info with wireless carriers over data privacy concerns

• 52:00 Google Go is now available worldwide

• 57:15: robot-combat-videos-animal-cruelty-a9071576.html">YouTube removes videos of fighting robots, citing “animal cruelty”

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