
142: ‘They Sherlocked F.lux’ With Dan Frommer
The Talk Show With John Gruber
01/13/16
•133m
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Special guest Dan Frommer returns to the show to deliver his first-hand report from last week’s CES in Las Vegas. Other topics include Periscope, Peach, why Apple never participated at CES, El Chapo’s re-capture, iOS 9.3, Apple Watch, Apple’s finances (and stock price), and self-driving cars.
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- Dan Frommer’s report on Rupert Murdoch’s private super-conference held at the Wynn Las Vegas during CES.
- Frommer: “Fitbit’s Long-Term Future Sales Curve Revealed”.
- Frommer on Apple Watch, six months in.
- The re-launched City Notes.
- U.S. marshalls raid hovercraft booth at CES.
- Philip Elmer-DeWitt: “Why So Much Apple Commentary Is So Clueless”.
- The Boeing Dreamlifter (inspiration for Apple’s iPhone Smart Battery Case).
- Sean Penn’s remarkable story for Rolling Stone on meeting with El Chapo.
- Dave Winer on the El Chapo story, and the objection from some journalists regarding the disclosed concessions they made to create it.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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A brief holiday chat about Star Wars: The Force Awakens, with a cavalcade of special guests, including Guy English and Amy Jane Gruber.
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- Writers Guild panel discussion between Lawrence Kasdan, JJ Abrams, and Michael Arndt, writers of The Force Awakens.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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143: ‘A Squirrel Eating a Duck’ With Merlin Mann
January 24, 2016
•168m
Merlin Mann returns to the show. Topics include Winter Storm Jonas, the politics of sick kids, sweating out a fever, people going insane over the rumors that the next iPhones will omit the standard headphone jack, the seven-hour The Godfather Epic, and more.
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- Backblaze’s online speed test.
- 2007 New Yorker story on commuters in Atlanta.
- The original 2007–2009 run of The Talk Show.
- Merlin Mann and John Gruber’s 2009 talk at SXSW.
- Clever fake “FIFA corruption scandal” Twitter account, which seemingly predicted World Cup matches before they were played.
- Online petition asking Apple not to remove the 3.5mm headphone jack from new iPhones.
- Team Negative One’s new samizdat restoration of a 35mm print of the 1977 theatrical release of Star Wars.
- The Atlantic: “Milk, Bread, and Eggs: The Trinity of Winter-Storm Panic-Shopping”.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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