Russell Holly is the Managing Editor at CNET. Before that, he was a manager at Future and he interviewed Adam to freelance there. So with all this experience managing people, Adam wanted to ask him what he looks for in a candidate. The answer may surprise you.

Plus, Cliff and Adam talk about a connected tablet, the TCL Tab Pro 5G. This is a budget-friendly 5G tablet that's currently exclusive to Verizon. Cliff gives us his overall impressions of the tablet and whether or not he recommends it.

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This month, we sit down with Chris Davies, Executive Editor at Slashgear. Chris started his career at Slashgear and has grown in the industry ever since. During our hour we cover a broad range of subjects from electric trucks that can power your house, to Samsung's latest flagships, to cookie bills (it's a long story). 

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Samsung Unpacked introduced three new phones and three new tablets. For the phones, we had the Samsung Galaxy S22, S22 Plus, and S22 Ultra, plus the Samsung Galaxy Tab S8, Tab S8 Plus, and Tab S8 Ultra. Samsung has a ton of power here, but the biggest announcement was that Samsung is building an ecosystem in its devices that could be pretty cool.

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After a shortened January and the introduction of Season 3, Cliff and Adam look back on the half-month that was. We started with CES coverage, and tied in our January edition of Beyond a Doud featuring Nirave Gondhia and moved on into the first of a pair of shows based on Adam's vacations. It's a look at NASA's Kennedy Space Center and museum. Sandwich in between there, we talked about Microsoft's huge acquisition of Activision Blizzard.

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For a long time, but especially since the pandemic, our experience partaking in products and services has been taken over by apps and software. From Amazon shopping to skipping the check-in desk at Disney, apps are pushing humans out of the center of the service industry. We're not sure if we're better off for it. So Cliff and Adam are exploring the issue in a very TekBeardian like experience. 

Plus we have the Anker Magnetic Desktop Charging Station as our Tech Yeah item of the week. 

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This week Cliff and Adam take a look at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. This is the place where NASA, SpaceX, and more launch rockets into space. It's also a museum dedicated to the space program, its development, how the space vehicles were built, the astronauts and engineers involved, and more. Adam spent a day there during his vacation and came away quite impressed, but is it worth the cost of admission?

Plus Vyyyper is back to talk about what kind of gear you need to get started in this industry. His answer may surprise you.

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This month for Beyond a Doud, we're talking to Nirave Gondia, CCO of Busy Pixel Media, the parent company of Pocketnow, xdadevelopers, and more. Nirave has his fingers in all those pies and he still writes and reviews devices as well. He's a one-man powerhouse in the tech space.

Nirave was one of the few who attended CES 2022, so we wanted to talk to him about it, and what the show was like with so few people. CES normally has around 250,000 people, and this year it was closer to 40,000. That's still a lot, but it was a fundamentally different show because of it.

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This week Microsoft blew the lid off the gaming industry by buying up Activision/Blizzard which is itself mired in controversy and unionization efforts. This is just a crazy deal overall and Digital Trends Gaming Editor Giovanni Colantonio is breaking it all down for us. What is Microsoft buying, why is Microsoft buying it, what could cause this whole thing to fall apart? Those are the big questions we tackle.

Plus, the Lenovo Tab P11 Plus is our tech yeah item of the week. It's an Android tablet that you should actually consider buying.

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Cliff and Adam get together to talk about the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that went on but was a lot smaller than usual. But it was still a really great show, with some really neat products. Cliff and Adam talk about their favorites listed below. We had the E-ink BMW, Sony's new concept car, the OnePlus 10 Pro, the Dell XPS 13 Plus, the Samsung Ark monitor, and a Black and Decker electronic drink maker. 

Plus we have a tech yeah from Dell that has caused no end of hilarity on this podcast.

Dell UltraSharp HDR 4K Webcam

P.S. The links below are all Digital Trends, but this is not a Digital Trends podcast.

BMW Built An Electric Car With Cbenefitofthedoud - Twitcholor-Changing Paint

The Sony Vision S Electric Car Concept Is Pure CES Magic

OnePlus 10 Pro Out January 13, But With a Caveat

Dell XPS 13 Plus Hands-on: Inviting Controversy and Wonder

Samsung ARK Is a Rotating Cockpit of Monitor Madness

The Bev is Black & Decker's New $300 Home Bartender

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While the podcast is on hiatus, I took the opportunity to appear along with Enrique Villacrez on the How Tech Podcast, and we had a great time! We talk about the year that was, what's coming up, CES, but then to cap it all off, Ricky found some simply amazing news stories from the year and we all know that's on-brand for me, so we had a blast discussing these stories.

This is a short trailer for my appearance on the show. Be sure to check out the whole episode at https://www.howtechpodcast.com/1840575/9808689-009-net-licks-and-chill-recap-of-funniest-tech-headlines-of-2021-with-adam-doud

And check out the How Tech Podcast at  https://www.howtechpodcast.com/

Hope you enjoy it!

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