CES AV club: the Engadget podcast returns, video with Veronica Belmont!

Engadget podcast fans, good news! I'll be bringing back the podcast for the duration of CES, with our editorial team and a special guest or two sitting in on the show to discuss the big news in Vegas. So fire up your podcast aggregator / iTunes / Zune Marketplace, or keep an eye on the Engadget podcast feed, because the show will be back on the air for next week and next week only!

And on the video front, we're teaming up with CNET-expat and Engadget ladyfriend Veronica Belmont and her excellent team at Mahalo Daily, who will help round out Engadget's up to the minute video coverage. We're expecting great things, so be sure to check back for Engadget + Mahalo Daily (and all the rest of our video) out at the Engadget video tag.

-Ryan

[Halfmad @ Jan 4th 2008 4:05PM]

am I first to drool?

*drool*

[Ellianth @ Jan 4th 2008 4:06PM]

OH MY FRIGGING GAWD!! I always hear her on twit, but i had no ideas she was SOOOOO pretty. I'm gay and she has me drooling too :P.

[murray @ Jan 4th 2008 4:08PM]

@Ellianth, are you sure you're gay?

[Ellianth @ Jan 4th 2008 4:13PM]

not after seeing her photo :p.

[Frankenstein Black @ Jan 4th 2008 5:01PM]

Dudes! and that's not even a good picture of her. She's one of those "and I don't even need makeup" to be cute types. Wonder who her man is? Lucky SOB ;^)...

[Mickey Jones @ Jan 4th 2008 9:17PM]

You're not gay. I've never seen you at the meetings.

Veronica, call me. Well do lunch or something.

[Jhongerkong @ Jan 4th 2008 10:37PM]

She looks nothing like a Belmont,

wheres the whip/holy water/leather clothes?

[Guzzie @ Jan 4th 2008 4:05PM]

Return of the Podcast!

[murray @ Jan 4th 2008 4:07PM]

So Engadget is catching up to DVICE in the cute-girl-video stakes.

Yum.

[superted @ Jan 4th 2008 5:47PM]

auw poor ryan... I'm willing to bet the Engadget readers are probably the biggest threat to another man pollinating with his.. er... where am i going with this...

Watched some Mahalo Daily, some competent reporting so looking forward to a Engadget tie in.

[Beau @ Jan 4th 2008 4:11PM]

Veronica Belmont = Ryan Block's gf...

just for those who didn't know :)

[Ellianth @ Jan 4th 2008 4:15PM]

Really?

I like how 1 picture of a girl turns the entire comment chain into a gossip forum :p. But seriously.. Really?

[Speddy @ Jan 4th 2008 4:18PM]

So, you are saying Ryan has good taste. But Veronica doesn't? ;P

[fastolfe @ Jan 4th 2008 4:19PM]

Ouch.

[fastolfe @ Jan 4th 2008 4:20PM]

Well now we know the source of all the apple stuff.

[Ryan Block @ Jan 4th 2008 4:20PM]

Yep, she's my girlfriend -- which I tried to disclaim, and which is public knowledge. But she's also an amazingly talented host and technology editor, so thankfully I didn't have to look very far!

[Muralidhar @ Jan 4th 2008 4:27PM]

May be....when I googled, I found Ryan's photo in Veronica's flickr site ooohhh man http://www.flickr.com/photos/earlysound/ gossip gossip tsk tsk....LOL

[Chris Macdonald @ Jan 4th 2008 5:15PM]

good job ryan she's a cutie!! lol

[Richard Lai @ Jan 4th 2008 5:47PM]

Hi-five to you, Ryan!

[Mickey Jones @ Jan 4th 2008 9:24PM]

Aw shucks! My girlfriend is a dud. Even my wife thinks so.

[CharlieX @ Jan 4th 2008 4:13PM]

Is that a giant glass of prune juice?

[fastolfe @ Jan 4th 2008 4:18PM]

No, that's a giant glass of hot smoking babe.

[Red Alert @ Jan 4th 2008 4:20PM]

Wine..

Chillin at work...thats how she rolls

[Veronica @ Jan 4th 2008 4:22PM]

Hah! No, it's Dr. Pepper, which I promptly spilled all over that keyboard :)

[fastolfe @ Jan 4th 2008 4:25PM]

Nice "accident" for Ryan to go get you the wireless thin keyboard.

[rip @ Jan 4th 2008 5:17PM]

I'd like to know what kind of workplace actually has drinking glasses made out of glass.

Engadget?

[John Bell @ Jan 4th 2008 7:27PM]

Oh, that was the episode where Veronica spilled stuff on her keyboard to demonstrate how to clean it... and the keyboard did NOT work at the end. That was a surprise ending!

[Speddy @ Jan 4th 2008 4:19PM]

She's using a Mac! That explains EVERYTHING!

[David Clark @ Jan 4th 2008 9:36PM]

Actually on one episode of TWiT (if memory serves me correctly) she said she hated her mac and eventually sold it. But Ryan might've turned her. Besides, ever since that episode she's smothered herself with macs on Mahalo.

[Veronica @ Jan 4th 2008 11:27PM]

Uhh.... that definitely wasn't me! I've been a Mac user for years.

[David Clark @ Jan 5th 2008 11:51PM]

Hmmm weird. Some female TWiT panelist burned her mac around the same time Dvorak decided to turn to the dark side. I think it was Molly Wood looking back at the show notes from episode 107.

[victor @ Jan 4th 2008 4:19PM]

CES won't know what hit 'em, methinks

[helloUser @ Jan 4th 2008 4:24PM]

You guys need to get laid.

[Fraggle.Rock @ Jan 4th 2008 4:30PM]

I know I do... :-)

[tuna @ Jan 4th 2008 6:28PM]

Where does your mom/sister live?

[Fraggle.Rock @ Jan 5th 2008 5:03AM]

@tuna

HelloUser told me they both live at 1060 W Addison Street
Chicago, IL 60613

Be on the look-out for SCMODS...

[Andy @ Jan 4th 2008 4:28PM]

Wow, at least you guys are all respectful human beings!

Oh well, I can't say that I don't enjoy dudes going off about how hot my ladyfriend is too.

[Tom @ Jan 4th 2008 4:46PM]

Yeah... Ryan's handling this well. Props to you Ryan, for not hunting us all down via IP address. And I hope you gave Veronica a nice spill-proof keyboard to replace that one.

[BigPana @ Jan 4th 2008 5:01PM]

@Tom

I think she's perfectly capable of getting one herself and doesn't need Ryan to do it...

And here's the video
http://daily.mahalo.com/2007/12/05/md-018-how-to-clean-your-keyboard/

[young @ Jan 4th 2008 4:51PM]

Ms. Belmont is smoking but Mahalo sucks balls. You venture capitalist guys that invested in Mahalo, I would like to talk to you guys about creating a site that does something that already exists and making it much worse. If I was you Ryan, I would quit my job and sell all my possessions and just stay at home and count down the minutes till Ms. Belmont comes home.

[Keisha Kornbread @ Jan 4th 2008 4:51PM]

RYAN!!! HOOK ME UP WITH ERIC!!!!

[Randomness @ Jan 4th 2008 5:03PM]

So THAT'S who Veronica Belmont is! When I won an Engadget contest, I got a ton of her business cards as part of the shwag, and I was kinda confused, but they work well as bookmarks. I'll call her later to give a critique of the podcast(jk).

[Shola @ Jan 4th 2008 5:07PM]

".... and Engadget ladyfriend Veronica Belmont....."

More like Engadget's girlfriend

[Veronica @ Jan 4th 2008 5:14PM]

That would be the intended connotation, Shola.

[kevjohn @ Jan 4th 2008 5:11PM]

I guess nobody has noticed this until now, but Veronica Belmont is.... kinda cute. There, I said it.

[willyjsimmons @ Jan 4th 2008 5:16PM]

'So, you are saying Ryan has good taste. But Veronica doesn't? ;P'

I'm sorry but...

lolololololololz

Ms. Veronica sho iz purdy doe.

*swoon*

[Joseph @ Jan 4th 2008 5:18PM]

What ever happened to Pete Rojas?

[Ryan Block @ Jan 4th 2008 5:24PM]

He recently launched his new company, RCRD LBL (rcrdlbl.com). See more here.

[bonedog73 @ Jan 4th 2008 5:24PM]

Too bad Mahalo Daily is blocked at work... falls into the "adult" category according to the filter. Must be due to those racy pics.. like that one above with the Dr. P.

[BigPana @ Jan 4th 2008 5:33PM]

Try this

http://www.nomorefilter.info/