A Meter of Sweat
The Vergecast
Vox Media Podcast Network
4.3 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2014
⏱️ 64 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to the Vurchast. This is a show where Chris plant is just super confused, |
| 0:14.4 | just the whole time. Hello and welcome to the Vurchast. This is a show about technology |
| 0:19.4 | and culture and fun things and sad things and actually not so many sad things, but occasionally |
| 0:25.3 | sad things. I am Neely Patel. I am Deeter Bone. I'm Chris Plant. Chris Plant is here. Welcome, |
| 0:33.1 | buddy. This is your first Vurchast. Yeah. I'll wait. Well, technically I was on one of those |
| 0:39.4 | late night shows a long time ago, but I kind of got like listed for the bottom and then like I walked |
| 0:45.3 | out and I was like, hey, okay, bye, that was the show. Yeah, that's how we do it. So if you are a fan |
| 0:52.2 | of the Vurch and Vox media, you might know Chris Plant who until recently was an editor at polygon |
| 0:59.8 | and previously was man about town. Sure. But Chris has left polygon to come to the Vurch |
| 1:05.2 | to escape video games and then he immediately started covering video games super hard just to |
| 1:10.1 | torture him. Yeah. That's basically what we did. That sounds about right. Yeah, that is accurate. |
| 1:15.9 | But no, Chris along with Ross Miller is the senior editor. He is the owner of RTLDR section. |
| 1:21.6 | And all around, you know, Genial Dude. Sure. Yeah, is that a good compliment? Yeah, I guess. |
| 1:26.8 | It was definitely like the nicest compliment I've ever received, but it wasn't me. You're like |
| 1:32.0 | you know, elephants. Yeah, but should I say or are our favorite insults to each other? |
| 1:36.9 | It's really bad. It's actually really bad. It's not once you like really unpack it, you |
| 1:40.9 | realize how horrible it is. She's like, hey, how's this food I made? It's like a six. |
| 1:46.1 | And like that's just like, wow. Yeah, no, nobody likes mediocre. |
| 1:49.6 | Yeah, mediocre is like, are you a mediocre? No, but the thing about five is like, |
| 1:55.4 | whatever. It's like, it's like five. It's good. Five. Five isn't good. No, I think six is like |
| 2:01.0 | a harsher burn. If we were to score a Windows phone, five, then everybody knows what it is. |
| 2:07.1 | Right? Everybody knows that you're biased. Then obviously Apple is paying you. |
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