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Waveform VS Vergecast Trivia at WWDC

June 07, 2023 / 31:55

This episode features a trivia competition between the hosts of Vergecast and Waveform, including questions about WWDC 2023, G Fuel flavors, and iconic tech sounds.

Adam Molina and Alice Rovin host the trivia game, where they challenge Marquez Brownlee and David Pierce from Vergecast against the Waveform team. The first round focuses on details from WWDC 2023, testing the hosts' attention to the event.

The second round shifts to G Fuel flavors, where contestants must identify whether the flavors are real or made up. The competition continues with an audio round, where they guess the source of various iconic tech sounds.

Finally, the trivia wraps up with questions about Craig Federighi, including his iconic moments and history with Apple. The Vergecast team ultimately wins the trivia contest.

Listeners can enjoy a light-hearted competition while learning about tech events and products.

TLDR

A trivia showdown between Vergecast and Waveform hosts on tech topics and pop culture.

Episode

31:55
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[Music] foreign welcome this is Verge and waveform trivia Extravaganza you probably might not know
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my name if you're under vergecast feed I am Adam Molina the producer of waveform
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I'm Alice rovin the other producer of waveform and we are going to pit the host of our two podcasts together today
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how are you guys failing this idea was so much better five minutes ago this is great it's really sitting next
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to like a hardened competitor like Marca it's like your confidence really drops I will say he is extremely competitive he's been plotting for weeks on this and
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we only found out about it like a week ago but he knew somehow in researching just various things so if you've never
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listened to our trivia game before we do things in a pretty Not Unusual way we're
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gonna pose a question you guys each have a whiteboard or excuse me let me backped a little bit we have three categories of
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questions for you tonight each category each team will select one contestant to answer all the questions in that category after you've figured out your answer
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write it on your whiteboard flip it around say it aloud and we'll award you points so we're uh we're not how we
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feeling ready to go I'm ready yes all right with that let's kick off some trivia
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oh my God yeah dude let's go yeah all right all right all right the first category is were you paying attention were you paying attention questions
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about the minutia of WWDC 2023. details do we have to pick our yeah you guys need to pick so who do you want
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to answer this question I love the idea of this being David V David yeah were you allowed to confirm were you right
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over here all right they can't stop us wait David were you paying attention I think so okay I was live blogging which
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means I was not like brain like water just everything my fingers I know all right it's hard
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I was capturing you being upset at the Mac Pro not coming I think I was paying attention but the hard thing is we don't
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know the other categories David I've heard a lot of excuses David who will be the best David all right first question oh God how does the
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new compass app show Waypoint altitude to users write it down flip them why is he
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writing already what's going on over there I mean I don't know if this is correct but I have an idea
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I don't understand all right I'm gonna give you okay you don't understand the question that sounds like a you problem
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hit me with it one more time the new compass app on the watch now displays the altitude of your waypoints how does it visually Express that altitude to the
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user I see I like that David five I'm correct it's lying you guys should have had this done a long time ago
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one let's flip what you got pop-up bubbles 3D space those are technically the same answer I'll give it to you we'll say correct so you each get one for both of us both
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okay written down was the height of the stock but both of those what does that even mean it's one of those games
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settle down settle down all right let's go all right listen listen we're gonna be great on a curve here all right ready Craig mentioned a new machine learning
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function coming to the home screen of iPad OS what was it machine coming to the home screen blankly at each other there was a widget someone
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trying to communicate with my attention David I think we paid the same amount of attention I missed the question he's
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ready three oh oh two faster one what are your answers okay let's see it guys multiple timers multiple timers
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it suggested apps in the spotlights are oh is that on the home screen that might
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be an acceptable answer yes the answer we were looking for was frame interpolation on live photos
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like Earth looks amazing at this scale he's holding an 11 inch iPad how did they get that right then because I
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believe that is machine learning to do the SMART Stacks unless it's not on the home screen
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machine because I got it I don't think that's machine learning that's a Markov chain so we'll take it back wait did you take it back
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yeah I don't deserve that I don't think so either thank you there's a weird third David team on the stage now yeah
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this is this is next let's make our own team what was the color of the first 15-inch MacBook Air that they showed in
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the presentation the first one the first one when they announced the FCS and this is again is the 15th MacBook Air
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Dan is very confidently Whispering three two one flip them and read boys what do
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you got I put black Starlight read them one at a time please black it's not even I know I said it like 20 times that is correct
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anyways finally the David's have been split apart again wow this is bad black is a
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hardcore answer something four possible answers and you picked a fifth I I would
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like to point out that there are zero Apple products named black yes I was saying midnight
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I would have guessed anyway whatever it probably was Starlight and then I was like I don't know it doesn't matter it
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was right all right all right we gave you the SmartStyle point back I'm really really
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not re-watching this two and a half hour during WWDC 2023 what made Craig exclaim
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we truly live in a world of Wonders Dan's on it multiple timers wave David yeah multiple times okay multiple timers way a bit
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wave Dave okay um yeah I've been confident about yeah with my feet if my shoes were off this would be
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easy you can just just say you can just David you could just pick up the Mark David
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take off your shoes oh my God so many Pratt Falls sorry audio listeners passing a marker down okay if I use my toes in the intro where there's
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a man chasing the bubble what were the final words that appeared on the screen oh the bubble dream it
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dream it Chase it blink what were those last words five four three two one flip them and
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read I'm wave David what do you got the says make it happen wow I believed Marquez
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well I just thought I thought it was so funny that it stuck in the mind we still have three uh are we looking for an
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easier question or a harder question easier easier yeah okay easier yeah the next point should be can you pick up a marker with your feet my shoes were off I definitely could I have very
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opposable toes oh my God how many pro display xdrs can the new Mac Studio support oh yeah I've never seen Marquez lean over faster in my entire life
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yes everyone on Twitter was asking who is going to use this many xdrs and I was like Studio Pro Studio Pro pro display xdrs please the Mac Studio that is
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correct oh [Laughter] for that section yeah he turned an eight into a six keyboard because the Mac Pro
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does eight and we knew that when I draw with my hands my hands cramp up and some I just kind of it's like yeah you should
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draw with your feet that's a great idea that's a difference five waveform three that's right I'm
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sorry yeah harder answers yeah all right let's do two more okay next question oh God Apple added Advanced metrics and features for two
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sports on the Apple watch so if their own slides what were they you got it right
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wait clarification yeah okay were they native apps or third-party apps native apps
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excellent question I misunderstood the question five four three two one flip them and read let's go Verge Davis it's like what do you got
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hiking and cycling okay is hiking a sport I don't know but that's what they had I could do it hard enough David what'd you say uh I had a
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different answer I said cycling and Hiking yes this is the last question of this
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round and I'm gonna hit you guys with a doozy David I just want you to know I think we're both doing a really good job what is going on that David's doing way
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better he's trying to trick you into getting this wrong sportsmanship at the end but is he doing real sportsmanship
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or just me up because he is already doing better than me what studio monitors were in the background of the
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opening shot of the opening cinematic of wwdc23 what studio I will accept the model number or a brand wow wow were you paying attention oh yeah
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I remember that one five four three two one flip him and read wave David what do you got are you writing right now
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[Laughter] [Laughter] I thought they meant displays we have five rounds the interest of uh time we're gonna keep
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it rolling all right the second category for today's show is G fuel flavors oh that's right we are going to read you a g fuel flavor and you have to tell me if it is a real flavor or if I made it up
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last night I don't like that you're so comfortable about being ready we already have okay I mean I'll take the counter I don't know what G fuel is how did you guys make those sounds
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just recording into his microphone and showing you what he's coming up with Alice can we please get a definition of
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of G Fuel and can I have it used in a sentence uh G fuel is he uh it's a powder that becomes a liquid or you
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either buy it as a liquid and it makes you game better it's very generic language of origin please I I
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unfortunately cannot Enlighten you it's New Jersey yes Blood Sweat and Tears it is a cinnamon candy flavor
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oh wait we never picked a contestant for this yes Dan I take it back all right Blood Sweat
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and Tears cinnamon candy flavor real or fake three uh fake I'm going with real wow uh it is a real flavor oh no oh my God
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I think Andrew was tossing the uh segments we don't know how much he likes GPS all right
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thank you the second flavor is amnesty amnesty is a pina colada flavor I'm sorry that's a good way to think of G fuel
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though that's true if you think it should be no I think it's the entire concept if it's real should be three I'm
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ready yeah I have real I'm going with fake amnesty is a fake flavor Kendall Jenner and the Pepsi it's very
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obvious that Gamers do not drinks that's a great context they'd rather drink cinnamon candy versus a pina colada well we're getting slayed yeah we've been giving Andrew a lot of crap
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and dance just over here getting all the answers yeah the next flavor is brimstone Brimstone
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is a cran raspberry flavor that sounds right that sounds really good that feels real stuff Ellis is also really good
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right whatever right okay three just yeah he's holding his card around Andrew you
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said why do we keep going yeah [Applause] what was the flavor though again you said fake Brimstone was crayon raspberry
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yeah it sounds like something you hear in the Doom game when you no I agree with that completely I think that I thought it was tricking us with that cranberry for
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gamers I don't know oh you thought it was too real I think it's about something [Music]
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um the next flavor is Type O like the blood type O is a passion fruit flavor wow
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that's actually this is the hardest one I think that's fake G feel passion I think that's fake I
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feel like at this point so I can blame you dude flip I'm going with fake [Music]
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the final flavor of G fuel for this round is bee sting what he's saying is a fruity cereal with a dash of honey I think that's real you
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know like when you're watching an embarrassing TV show and you have to leave the room I want out of this room
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the next one has to be good is bee sting a real flavor flip them around going with fake fake bee sting is fake but
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there is a flavor called scorpion sting her right he meant to do this guys I got a point nice let's go I don't know anymore
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unbelievable great job maybe that was so much a well disguised knowledge of G fuel over there we kind of have to have more rounds because otherwise we are we didn't tell you this but Dan starts raw chicken
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this next round is a favorite of ours here on waveform trivia it is our audio round oh boy it is our audio of this we are going to play you a famous sound and you have to tell us its source
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so as an example if you heard Windows XP baby exactly I would not accept windows but I would accept Windows XP you do not need to be as specific as Windows XP startup sound
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Windows XP would be oh just like a general Platinum if you would set windows that is not you know
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sound in the Apple office home Edition all right all right this is Marquez versus nili yeah yeah let's do it first
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sound is I'm gonna try David's very upset with me I know this oh yeah it's easy yep I'm not upset with you you're absolutely I'm not I wrote Netflix to Doom I need
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to write bigger is what I just said that is correct I also wrote Netflix I love it sick if I got in a perfect score then I'd be upset with you it's a slippery slope but I messed up a lot so the media
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ones number random number there would have done just as well so the next sound is
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[Music] that's it can I hear it again he's ready he's writing me [Music] five four three two one
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this is such a shot in the dark some PlayStation startup sound which PlayStation
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never mind yeah that was the PS3 wow I was an Xbox guy at that time no yeah baby I had that taking me back
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taking me back I'm pretty confident about that one let's flip them around Marquez what do you got I use Skype a
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lot back in the day Skype Skype two correct answers the best by the way like that that's my feeling yeah I haven't used it in years so I don't actually know
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probably better than women move on to our next sound hard shot at Apple inside the Apple building again I'm just saying
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the we we tested out a few Apple sounds for this but we either found they were too obvious or it would be impossible uh I guess that's the beauty of Apple sound
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design up next we have oh easy [Music] I don't know actually Dan is confident I was joking though can you play it again I'm [Music]
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just saying you know the Sound Stage of that was high enough I can see the animation when I hear it I just don't remember if you can you you had that five no I didn't four how do you see it
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one flip them and read I said the PS Vita okay I said Dolby Atmos that was the Xbox series X startup sound don't listen to me ever again what
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was that you said it so complicated back in your chair I thought it would still be different I did too
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wait did you guys also think there was a height Channel I heard some whisper about did that sound High Enough no oh no I was like is the Sound Stage
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of the PS Vita high enough to actually encapsulate that so I thought I meant the Z channel of the app never mind
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we're nerds all right up next that's exactly what I was saying oh oh can we hear it again I know that I know absolutely
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foreign it's in my brain yeah five it's something four three two okay I'm saying it any guesses
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yeah it can't be right though I wrote meta Quest sorry there's a shot in the dark it kind of you lie you're really pushing it no no I have a PS5 this time and it was wrong
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unfortunately that is the Hulu startup sound that is the sound when you load the Hulu app do you know why we watched
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it in my life I want to admit this too I know this because my wife is watching the Hillsong documentary on Hulu right now and I've heard that sound a lot and
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I thought to myself from another this causes me pain and then I immediately left to the PS5
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that was so epic no because when you when I turn on my PS5 the Apple TV fights it so it's like this is a sound I
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hear before something dumb happens when I turn on my LG TV the PS5 also boots up and then fights the Chromecast
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wait what's the score right now for this category Adam what's our score we lost Verge cast 12. yeah waveform seven my
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boys are making us look better categories that's really just a random number generator I don't know I was like
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a hamster like picking stocks that's basically what the G fuel category was no yeah
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we got one wrong Dan was he's gonna have a package of G fuel wings all right this next one we're gonna throw it back just a few years all right
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oh [Music] a few years yeah Throwbacks don't hit me is this one more time as a game console that's all I know that's good five four three two one and
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a half one and three quarters something completely one flip them in read uh Marquez what is that my Mark is crapping out but I said PlayStation 2.
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I'm sorry I wrote Wii U yeah Windows 98 unfortunately oh wow no one used Windows 98. everyone skipped for 95 to 2000 when they went to the NT Court come on all hospitals everywhere
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disagree [Laughter] he's in the hospital when I was 17 years old I was barely alive all right we have six minutes left are you online yet
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burned for being old on top of not knowing what it is we can do one more round within six
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minutes let's do it hit it one more category or you want to keep keep going through the audio one more category
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category one more category online with everything oh yeah yeah I like that okay I like that oh yeah yeah well so six
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start with you guys and then we run down how far ahead are we all questions about Craig federigi oh boy all right okay it's interesting
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interesting okay about things to get on stage first question we all remember Craig I Craig's iconic slow-mo run from WWDC 2022 but what announcement was he
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running to he ran downstairs became a meme all over the place he was just running straight he was already in like a slow-mo transition oh was it was that the MacBook here what
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it was a mistake four speed right three yeah one I guess Marquez he was running down to M2
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oh damn yeah all right I've written iOS question mark the correct answer was iPad iOS
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iOS honestly I was right yeah I wish but iPad OS in my microphone please [Laughter]
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thank you why did we do that category Craig started working with Steve Jobs at a company that was not Apple that company was called what oh
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um Jesus I was not alive yet oh stop burning me because I'm old man I was already 25 years old I had five jobs I think it's this right yeah it's either that right I
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have no idea four yeah I think we get three two answers two I don't what does that say
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one never mind David Pierce I believe the company is called Next that is correct and that is your 13th point this
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is mine I also said good work way to go David's way to go David it was not yet alive
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bruh the internet I was I was living the dream with my next Cube rick rolled the audience at WWDC what Apple app was he showing off new
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features for when he did this Apple app say it again he once rick rolled the audience at dub dub which Apple app was he showing off during the demo when he did this and
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this is an apple first party application Craig is in his home just weeping right now at how little you guys pay attention
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he was playing the song and it was 2014. this song it was dubbed up 2014 2015. thank you that was 2015. that's probably when that came out yeah it was it wasn't here sure five okay yeah four three two they know too
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much and one like this at all this feels too obvious Andy but Apple music Sorry iMovie the correct answer was Safari
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we have it oops Yeah it was obviously all right yeah here's here's a simpler one that's what I was like this is too easy I was
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on the G Fuel Curve one minute that's my turn again yeah one minute left we're gonna blow through these all right this
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one's next it's at least six points right can I make up the questions absolutely not just send it or what it's worth
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you're gonna lose anyway Marcus all right cool two more questions in the Craig round first question Craig almost always wears
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a shirt of a shade of what color that's too easy you knew I was getting that too yeah yeah yeah I need a like a good five
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point question that's true you know I just still think we'd lose I believe you I'm pretty sure do not immediately know no yeah
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is it weird that I know that I knew that too actually I think this is weird am I weird I don't know I knew that too one
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[Music] got it I'm ending I'm sorry Craig I'm ending the Craig ground here we have time for one more question oh my God the
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question is and this is a David V David question but all are welcome to chime in what is the flagship VOX media
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technology podcast do you want a serious answer it's the weeds wait it's just right what's on the back
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oh yeah that's good three two one flip him and read Verge form phrase you're looking for is the god
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wow David threw you a bone I'm just gonna say you're both wrong for some reason and uh now those are our questions for this evening
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in the second place nine points no first place in our hearts come on now that was super fun at least Flagship box media technology podcast maybe yeah what's the way for podcast
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obviously our winners of trivia this evening vergecast with 14 points giving up for G fuel another sponsor good job
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thank you nilai Marquez take us out oh yeah rock and roll rock and roll how do you guys on your show uh this is Peter thanks for watching yeah
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[Laughter] no that was super fun thank you all for watching thank you incredible we got we're gonna do more collabs in the future this was a really great time Brimstone for life now you can say it
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rock and roll there you go oh nice thank you

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Episode Highlights

  • Waveform Trivia Extravaganza
    A fun trivia showdown between hosts Adam and Alice, testing their knowledge on tech.
    “This idea was so much better five minutes ago!”
    @ 00m 33s
    June 07, 2023
  • Were You Paying Attention?
    The first trivia category focused on details from WWDC 2023.
    “How does the new compass app show Waypoint altitude?”
    @ 02m 35s
    June 07, 2023
  • G Fuel Flavor Challenge
    Contestants guess if G Fuel flavors are real or made up, leading to surprising answers.
    “Blood Sweat and Tears is a real flavor!”
    @ 13m 06s
    June 07, 2023
  • Audio Round
    Contestants identify famous sounds, testing their nostalgia and tech knowledge.
    “That was the PS3!”
    @ 19m 31s
    June 07, 2023
  • Craig Federighi Trivia
    Questions about Apple's Craig Federighi, including his iconic moments and history.
    “What announcement was he running to?”
    @ 25m 21s
    June 07, 2023

Episode Quotes

  • Oh my God yeah dude let's go!
    Waveform VS Vergecast Trivia at WWDC
  • I don't understand!
    Waveform VS Vergecast Trivia at WWDC
  • I would like to point out that there are zero Apple products named black!
    Waveform VS Vergecast Trivia at WWDC
  • I want out of this room!
    Waveform VS Vergecast Trivia at WWDC
  • Brimstone for life!
    Waveform VS Vergecast Trivia at WWDC

Key Moments

  • Trivia Kickoff01:20
  • WWDC Details01:38
  • G Fuel Flavors12:11
  • Audio Challenge17:42
  • Craig Trivia25:10

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