Google's sale of Motorola, the iPod's decline, and Daft Punk helmets

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 31 January 2014

⏱️ 75 minutes

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The Vergecast is a discussion of all things relevant and irreverent in the worlds of art, culture, science, technology, and anything else our hosts might deem interesting. On this week's episode, Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, and Dieter Bohn talk about Google's attempt to sell Motorola to Lenovo, the declining sales of the iPod, and the obvious benefits of a Daft Punk helmet. Audio: Download MP3 (34.3 MB) Subscribe to the podcast (iTunes audio) Subscribe to the podcast (iTunes video) Subscribe to the podcast (RSS) Subscribe to the podcast (Video RSS) Video: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, and welcome to the Verge Cast, the week of January 27th, 2014. I'm Josh
0:27.4	Pulski. I'm Neil Apatel. I'm Dieter Bon. And yes, that's right. You've entered the
0:31.7	mountain zone. Yeah. We've sold Ross Miller to Lenovo. Ross Miller has been sold to Lenovo for far
0:37.2	less than what we pay for him. And, but, but you know, he's in a better place. Yeah. Lenovo, a Lenovo
0:43.8	factor. No, Dieter's here. And this is, of course, the Verge Cast were discussed a week in all sorts of
0:49.2	funky, exciting topics this week. Plenty to talk about. So much. Nazis. Not Google. Google
0:57.4	Nazis. Google Nazis. No, Google Nazis. Yeah. It's amazing what you find out of control maniacs, CEOs.
1:03.8	Out of control CEOs. In control CEOs. Yeah. Cool, collected CEOs. Yeah. Cool, collected CEOs. What
1:11.3	else? What are the other topics we have? Facebook. Facebook. Facebook. Nintendo. Nintendo. I want to start
1:17.0	getting a few weeks, which is a robot. ABC is a commission to show called selfie. ABC has
1:22.5	commissioned a show called selfie, which will feature. I don't know anything about the show. Can you
1:26.0	tell us about it? I just literally close it. It's a show based on Instagram. My immediate instinct to
1:31.0	close that tab, kicked in. Hold on. It's a show based on the experience of Instagram users.
1:37.0	I'm making that up. I have no idea what it's about. I'm sorry. I just need to have a drink. I'm
1:40.4	very thirsty. It was faster internet than I do. Yeah, exactly. We have a little bit of a problem
1:45.2	here. By the way, I hope everybody could hear that. The comedy inspired by my fellow Fair Lady
1:49.2	tells the story of a self-obsessed 20-something woman who is more concerned with likes than being
1:53.3	like. I'm sorry. Did you say my Fair Lady? Yep, yeah. Wow. After suffering a very public and
1:57.5	humiliating breakup, she comes a subject of a viral video and something has more social media
2:01.2	followers than she ever imagined, but for all the wrong reasons. Classic. She enlists the help
2:06.5	of a marketing expert at a company to help repair her tarnished image. This is the worst. That is
2:11.0	some convoluted. That is. That is to be extremely contrived. Like that show immediately goes from
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