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The Vergecast

The Force Naps

The Vergecast

Vox Media Podcast Network

Tech News, Technology, News

4.34.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2015

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

It's a veritable who's who of podcasting today, as Dieter Bohn takes the Vergecast reigns, and invites Chris Ziegler, Sam Sheffer, Emily Yoshida, and Kwame Opam to The Vergecast. We've got the gold MacBook, the Surface 3, the new Star Wars trailer, and Ryan Gosling's rumored presence in a Blade Runner sequel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Verge cast. This is the week of, I don't know, April 13th,

0:12.0

it's April 16th today. I am not Neil Ipe tell. I am Dieter Bohn. I am Chris

0:17.2

Igler and I am Sam Schaffer. Why aren't you at the hype desk? You invited me here.

0:21.9

The hype desk is empty. Wow, that's zero hype. It's so lonely and sad over there.

0:29.2

It is so hype that we had to bring the hype to the main table.

0:32.3

Graping Verge today, feeling good. So, yeah, Neil I was on vacation. I guess he deserves one.

0:37.6

So, we are filling in. We've also, we're going to have a array of people. You guys are going to be

0:44.0

on for a while. We might try and bring Emily and Kwame out later. And we're all very excited

0:49.4

because these new Star Wars trailers just dropped. But we'll save that discussion for now.

0:53.7

I'm going to talk about it right now because sitting to my left, Chris Eglier, is a known Star Wars

0:58.7

Hater? Not a hater of the series. You are a Star Wars Hater. No, I'm not a hater of the series.

1:05.0

I look, George Lucas said somewhere in the range of 10 years ago that this, that it was done.

1:11.9

Okay. He said it was done. And now it's not done anymore. And I'm a little upset about it.

1:16.1

What did Dom say at the end of the first Fast and the Furious? Oh, that's a little different.

1:20.8

It's not different. No, no, it's different because the Star Wars movies are better.

1:26.1

And it was out. Whatever. I'm not going down the track at all. This is a dangerous place to be.

1:33.0

I want to talk about Star Wars now really badly. I just watched Attack of the Clones last night.

1:38.6

I still feel like it's a slightly underrated movie. There's a lot of really, really

1:42.1

terribleness, but the whole set of Obi-Wan, like performing his investigation, is great.

1:47.8

I thought it was the best of the three new ones. That's not saying much, though. No, it isn't.

1:52.5

Okay. We're going to talk a lot more Star Wars later because we are excited. But I think we should

2:00.1

talk about, because we didn't get to talk about it last time too much last week, the new MacBook.

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