The James Bond Cinematic Universe

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, we're diving deep into new ideas about old things. First, Framework CEO Nirav Patel joins David and The Verge's Sean Hollister to talk about Framework's new Laptop 12 and Desktop, plus the company's plan to bring its upgradeable, repairable ethos to other gadgets. After that, Daring Fireball's John Gruber joins the show to talk about the future of James Bond, now that Amazon has complete creative control over the 007 franchise. Do we want to live in the James Bond Cinematic Universe? Finally, we answer a question on the Vergecast Hotline about using smart glasses to replace your computer monitor. Further reading: Framework wants to fix the budget laptop with its first touchscreen machine Mint and pink: a closer look at the backflipping Framework Laptop 12 Framework’s first tiny Desktop beautifully straddles the line between cute and badass Framework Desktop hands-on: a possible new direction for gaming desktops ‘We’re nowhere near done with Framework Laptop 16’ says Framework CEO Amazon now has creative control over the James Bond franchise Amazon buys MGM for $8.45 billion From David Smith: The Talk Show Bond Anthology From Daring Fireball: Amazon MGM Studios Takes Creative Control Over James Bond Franchise Xreal’s new glasses are a surprisingly good TV for your face The smart glasses era is here — I got a first look Email us at [email protected] or call us at 866-VERGE11, we love hearing from you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of modular devices. I'm your friend David
0:08.1	Pierce, and I have like 1,140 miles to walk. So I downloaded this app called Fantasy Hike,
0:16.0	which V-Song recommended on the podcast a few weeks ago. It's basically an app that takes all of your motion
0:22.4	activity, the steps you take and stuff like that, and converts it to like this long Lord of the Rings
0:27.5	journey to take a ring back to, they don't call it Mordor for copyright reasons, but that's the
0:33.2	idea. The journey is 1780 miles, and it turns out I am surprisingly easily gamified by systems like this.
0:40.9	So I have found this very compelling, and I'm now walking way more than I ever have before,
0:45.4	just so that I can get the little, like, way-to-go notifications and see my progress and get somewhere.
0:50.9	So at some point, I think I'm going to end up walking almost 1800 miles,
0:55.0	all because of this silly fake Lord of the Rings app. It's great stuff. Anyway, this is a super
1:00.8	fun episode we have coming up. We're going to do two things. First, Sean Hollister and I are going to
1:05.7	talk to Narav Patel, the CEO of Framework, about the new desktop and laptop the company last week launched,
1:12.3	plus all of the stuff that Framework might do in the future.
1:17.0	They have some pretty interesting ideas, and we have a lot of questions about those ideas.
1:21.1	Then John Gruber from Daring Fireball is going to come on and talk about the thing he knows
1:25.1	best, James Bond.
1:27.3	Super fun episode. We also have a really fun hotline question about glasses on your face
1:30.9	for computers. All of that is coming up in just a second, but first, I'm going to be
1:35.5	honest with you. I'm going to go get a couple more miles in. I'm on my way to Mount Fire,
1:39.0	I think it's called, which is not Mordor because of Lord of the Rings. This is the Verstcast.
1:44.6	We'll be right back.
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