102: ‘Maybe You Don’t Take an Apprentice’ With Dave Wiskus
The Talk Show With John Gruber
12/05/14
•176m
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Special guest Dave Wiskus joins the show to talk about the new teaser trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and just-announced title and cast for the 24th EON Productions Bond movie, Spectre. Other topics include the untapped potential of podcasting and YouTubing, cutting babies in half, turtle copulation, and kangaroo genitalia.
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Links:
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens teaser
- Spectre, the upcoming 24th EON Productions James Bond film
- Midnight Run
- Original 1976 Star Wars trailer, sans John Williams’s score, with uncolored lightsabers and a Helvetica Bold logotype
- John Brownlee: “In Defense of the New Star Wars Lightsaber”
- BBC’s Fleming miniseries (It’s currently streaming on Netflix.)
- Everything or Nothing — good documentary on the Bond films, also streaming on Netflix currently
- Fantastic re-cut Never Say Never Again intro, including Dionne Warwick’s unused recording of John Barry’s “Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang” for the opening credits
- Dave Addey: “Typeset in the Future: Alien”
- Unprofessional
- Wiskus’s “Better Elevation” video show, and the recent “Podcast Intervention” and “How to Make a Hit App” episodes
- CGP Grey
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101: ‘Like a Butt Crack’ With Christa Mrgan
November 25, 2014
•89m
Special guest Christa Mrgan joins the show to talk about Yosemite UI design, Apple TV’s aesthetics (and its shitty IR remote control), Apple Watch speculation (including using it as an Apple TV remote), the Watch’s new San Francisco font, bling in icon design, and more. It’s a Thanksgiving week design-focused spectacular.
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Links:
- Christa Mrgan on Twitter.
- Rogue Amoeba software (and Piezo in particular).
- Super Bowl 50.
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103: ‘Robotitize the Assembly’ With Guest Dan Frommer
December 16, 2014
•115m
Special guest Dan Frommer joins the show to talk about prop bets in Vegas, more Star Wars, some follow-up on James Bond, what should Apple do with its mountains of cash?, speculation on why iPad sales growth has stagnated, and more. Also, some in-depth segments on Instagram and the concept of “institutional taste”.
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Links:
- Great photo of Dan, recording the show at Quartz’s office.
- Dan’s article, “Ten Things We Learned About Apple in 2014”.
- The Cubs sign ex-Rays manager Joe Madden and pitcher Jon Lester.
- Superbowl 51 will go back to stupid Roman numerals.
- Eric Jackson’s piece for Forbes, “Apple’s $100 Billion Waste: Tim Cook’s Single Biggest Mistake As CEO”, wherein he argues Apple should buy Tesla, Twitter, and Pinterest.
- GT Advanced and their crazy approach to making deals.
- Instagram active user announcement.
- Ev Williams “doesn’t give a shit” about Instagram’s numbers.
- OK Go’s latest video. Seriously, watch this.
- Stephen Colbert on the new Sith lightsaber in The Force Awakens teaser.
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