A lazy person’s guide to getting in shape

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 86 minutes

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The Verge’s Victoria Song joins the show to talk about the most popular and most-bailed-on New Year’s Resolution of all: getting in shape. She tells us about the apps that help you work out more without being rude about it, the data you really need to care about in your fitness tracker, and much more. After that, we talk to Anna Valtonen, one of the curators and researchers behind the new Nokia Design Archive. She tells us about the concepts, presentations, and overall culture that made Nokia such an important company in the history of phones. Finally, we answer another question on the Vergecast Hotline about how audio works on your phone. It’s all still too complicated. Further reading: Ladder Fantasy Hike Stompers Runkeeper 5K Runner Our interview with Adrian Hon about Zombies, Run The Nokia Design Archive Nokia’s “Morph” concept The Nokia Communicator The Nokia Moonraker smartwatch From Apple: Share audio with AirPods and Beats headphones from iPhone or iPad Also from Apple: Play audio through multiple devices at once in Audio MIDI Setup on Mac From Samsung: Play music on two Bluetooth devices from your Galaxy phone Email us at vergecast@theverge.com or call us at 866-VERGE11, we love hearing from you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of immediately giving up on every single one of your New Year's resolutions.
0:09.0	It's the best way. I can't recommend it highly enough.
0:12.0	I'm your friend David Pierce and I am in sunny West Palm Beach, Florida, where I'm here to see a thing called TGL golf,
0:19.0	which is basically trying to take the game of golf,
0:21.1	which is famously played outside on grass, and move it inside and make it really technologically
0:26.9	advanced with big screens and complicated actuators and all kinds of new ideas about what
0:32.8	watching and playing golf can be like. We're going to have more to say about that on this show
0:37.2	and on the verge.com in a couple of weeks,
0:38.8	so stay tuned for that.
0:40.8	But it's nice to be outside.
0:42.0	What are you going to do?
0:42.9	Anyway, we have an awesome show coming up for you today.
0:45.7	We're going to do two things.
0:47.1	First, we're going to talk to V-Song about New Year's resolutions. She is a person who thinks a lot about exercise and how people can do better without making it so much work to do better.
0:58.1	And right now is the time of your people want to be healthier and want to get in better shape and want to exercise more.
1:03.3	So V and I are going to try to figure out how you can do that in a safe, sane, healthy way.
1:08.5	It's going to be great.
1:09.3	After that, we're going to talk about this incredible
1:11.4	new thing called the Nokia Design Archive, which is this huge repository of concepts,
1:18.2	presentations, lifestyle videos, all these different ideas back when Nokia was at the peak of its
1:23.8	powers, trying to figure out the future of cell phones. Super fun and we're going to get
1:27.9	into what's inside all of it. We also have a question on the Vergecast hotline that's kind of a follow-up
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