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The Vergecast

Stephen Elop, King of Thieves

The Vergecast

Vox Media Podcast Network

Tech News, News, Technology

4.34.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2014

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

It was a week of learning and growth on the Vergecast. Specific lessons included who actually owns Nokia, who has used an Apple Watch, what qualifies as a varsity sport, the merits of Pitch Perfect, and just how little of the 90s Sam remembers. Programming note: The Vergecast will be taking next week off, in observance of Thanksgiving, but we'll be back the following week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Let me ask you a question. Oh God. It's pretty good. No, I think it's important to in your heart.

0:13.0

Answer this question for me. Tell me. If you were to order the colors from last to first,

0:18.4

how would you order them? Easy. Are you ready? Yeah. Okay, I'm going to start. Orange.

0:23.9

That's last. That's the last orange and last place. No. No. Okay. I'm going to go through this.

0:31.6

And then we can wait after that. Orange. Yep. Yellow. Blue. Red. Green. Purple. Pink.

0:44.8

So you want mine? We invert that exactly. No, you're crazy. And that's mine. I think pink goes higher.

0:52.4

Any order at which green is near the top is in that inaccurate order. Are you crazy?

0:58.1

Hello, this is a verge cast where we are no strangers to controversy. That was a good

1:03.3

to throw. I like that. It was like a little anecdote. It was good. I don't know if that counts as an anecdote.

1:08.4

I was literally just Chris randomly listing colors. I mean, it weren't random. I thought about it

1:14.0

for about five seconds. Hello, this is our show where we talk about technology, the people,

1:18.7

the lifestyles, the glitz, the glamour. Oh, man. So much glitz. I am Neal. I put out on Chris

1:25.6

planned. I am Deeter Bone. I check. I'm Sam Shepard. There he is right there, everybody. So I will say,

1:33.4

and I'm just going to open. I'm going to I want to open the show by acknowledging the criticisms

1:38.8

of the show that we receive. And last week, the primary criticism was that we were crazy.

1:44.8

Oh, well, that's crazy. That's a crazy cry. I'm going to try. This is true. We're going to talk about

1:52.1

technology news today. We're the most part. We are going to try to do it with some structure.

1:58.4

We will almost certainly fail. But I want you to know the listener that we are trying.

2:04.9

Can I acknowledge a criticism too while I'm out there? Yeah. So I just want to thank everyone

2:10.5

who left a comment. I know. I know. No, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, just

2:14.0

criticism coming. A lot of people left very nice compliments of our show and said that you're ready

2:19.6

for whatever the hell I'm going to make, which hopefully we're going to hopefully fingers crossed

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