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The Vergecast

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The Vergecast

Vox Media Podcast Network

Tech News, Technology, News

4.34.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2015

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

On this week's show, Nilay Patel has some thoughts on ownership, Dieter Bohn offers some feelings about Google, Adi Robertson makes assertions about Ingress, and Sam Sheffer spends the whole hour downloading illegal ROMs. There's also some talk about Recode, Google I/O, and WWDC predictions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

This episode of The Verge Cast is brought to you by Desperate and Constant Fear.

0:05.8

Those are books. Those are not emotions. Those are books by a man named Daniel Palmer. Desperate

0:10.0

is one book. Constant Fear is not a book. Are you looking for a fantastic Father's Day read?

0:14.7

Look no further than two new action-packed thrillers out now by a claimed author, Daniel Palmer.

0:20.9

Available in Hardcover. Constant Fear has been described as die hard on a prep school campus.

0:26.7

It's a story filled with a breakneck suspense as a father battles the odds to save his kidnap son.

0:32.1

Paperback readers can look for Desperate, which follows a man who must make an unthinkable choice

0:36.8

to save his marriage. Constant Fear and Desperate are on sale wherever books are sold,

0:41.4

and at Kensingtonbooks.com. That is the best ad we've ever had. This is The Verge Cast.

0:47.4

Hello. Seriously though. That was a great ad. Yeah, that's good. I mean,

1:01.8

really. I mean, at first I did think the book was just one book called Desperate and Constant Fear,

1:06.6

which is a perfect name for a book. Or just my general situation. What if he decides to make

1:11.6

it a trilogy and that's what he calls the third book? Desperate, Constant Fear, and then Desperate

1:17.1

and Constant Fear. I mean, well, Laurie breaks up all of it in its four books and one of them is called

1:23.0

And. Oh, that's definitely the last one is just called Fear. That's good. Hello, welcome to The

1:30.7

Verge Cast. Today is June 4th, 2015. It feels comfortable to say the actual day that we're recording

1:37.1

instead of the week, but I'm trying out. My beer has made a little hat for itself. No one can see

1:42.9

this, but the very strange situation of that beer just launching, launching foam into space right now.

1:49.4

Yeah, that was excellent audio programming that I just did. Just imagine a beer with a hat on it,

1:55.2

and that's what's happening. Tiny little hat. The person that is continuing to talk before being

1:58.9

introduced to steer boom. Sorry. Hi. And then to my left is Adi Robertson. Hi. How's it going?

2:06.4

Your beer. No hat. I'm scared you're going to knock it off the table so I'm holding it. Oh,

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