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The Vergecast

Six degrees of 'Lawnmower Man'

The Vergecast

Vox Media Podcast Network

Tech News, Technology, News

4.34.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2014

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

The Vergecast is a discussion of all things relevant and irreverent in the worlds of art, culture, science, and technology — and anything else that pops into the twisted minds of this week's hosts. Join Joshua Topolsky, Ross Miller, and T.C. Sottek for a scintillating discussion on latest tech news. On this week's episode, we talk about how cable network oligopolies and the FCC are ruining the internet, whether the new Samsung Gear line is what consumers have been waiting for, and how Google is slowly buying up an entire town. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, hey, and welcome to the Verge cast, that's just, I'm just see, welcome to the Verge

0:27.0

cast of the week of February 24th, 2014. I'm Josh DePolsky. I'm Ross Miller. I'm T.C.

0:32.0

Saudeck. I think you just realized what you're

0:34.0

aware of. I just realized what I did. I just realized how good this looks today. He's not

0:37.0

actually Josh. He's ladywriter. I don't mind. I don't mind saying this is before the Verge

0:42.0

cast started today, just before. I mean, literally moments ago. I said we're in the studio

0:48.3

here at Vox Media, the Vox Media Empire in beautiful Midtown Manhattan. I said,

0:56.2

is there anything here I can wear? I think I might have specifically requested a vest.

1:02.8

Did I request a vest? Can someone in the control room tell me? I specifically requested

1:07.6

a vest. Why did I request a vest? Why did? Because vests are fancy. Yeah, we don't

1:14.5

need to. I'm talking about Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson. Yeah, cool. Thomas Jefferson

1:19.0

had a cool vest. I said, do we have any, do we have any vests here? And

1:26.1

like what's crazy is yes, we have a vest. And it is a woman's motorcycle vest with like

1:33.6

ladies motorcycle patches on it. Ladywriter. This one says ladywriter. This one says born

1:40.4

to be wild here. I like the one on the bottom. It says it ain't easy to me. Me. Yeah.

1:45.1

I don't know what lady owned this, but I think her and I have something in common, which

1:50.0

is it's hard to be either one of us. It's not that normal. But I just feel like I've

1:54.2

been bodying some of her spirit right now. You know what's surprising about a leather vest?

1:57.8

Comfortable. Well, he actually gets pretty warm in there. It's actually pretty toasty right

2:02.6

here. Vests are confusing to me because it's like your body is burning hot, but then your

2:08.1

extremities are freezing. Like, like, well, at least we saved his torso. Like, what's

2:13.1

the, it's all about the core though. You know, like people striking. No, you know, you

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