144: ‘Hopped Up on Holiday Juice’ With Matthew Panzarino
The Talk Show With John Gruber
01/31/16
•134m
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Special Guest Matthew Panzarino. Topics include Apple's quarterly financial results, rumors of Apple working on VR handsets and "wireless" charging for iPhones, Bezos charts, and more.
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This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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January 24, 2016
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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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Links:
- 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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145: ‘Anthropomorphic Human Bowel’ With Ben Thompson
February 10, 2016
•109m
Special guest Ben Thompson returns to the show. Topics include last Sunday’s Super Bowl 50 (and its mostly terrible commercials), Tim Cook’s tweet with a photo he took from the sidelines post-game, Twitter’s algorithmic timeline and the state of today’s Google- and Facebook-dominated online advertising industry, Yahoo’s dismal prospects, and more.
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- Tim Cook, Super Bowl photographer.
- The New Yorker advertising Josh Topolsky’s “The End of Twitter” article — on Twitter.
- Concussions suffered in this year’s Super Bowl.
- How we used to finger our friends in college.
- Dustin Curtis computed the 2015 revenue and profit per employee for Yahoo, Twitter, MSFT, Google, Facebook, and Apple.
- Xifaxan’s Super Bowl 50 commercial, starring a diarrhea-stricken human bowel.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Moisés Chiullan.
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