The dust hadn’t even cleared from CES when Google decided to demolish the smart home status quo by announcing a $3.2 billion purchase for Nest, the maker of a connected thermostat. In this week’s podcast, Kevin Tofel and I discuss the deal and what it means for the connected home, privacy and Google. You can also listen to find out if Kevin plans to keep his Nest once it gets new owners.

The show also features a conversation with NinjaBlock’s founder Pete Moore, who shares how the company went from making connected sensor to a connected hub (the NinjaSphere) and why it includes gesture recognition and a fairly powerful processor. Moore explains why he thinks intelligence will need to be in both the home and in the cloud as well as why he chose the MQTT protocol for implementing his vision for the smart home. It gets a little nerdy…