331: ‘John Was the Problem’, With Merlin Mann
The Talk Show With John Gruber
12/11/21
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Merlin Mann returns to the show to discuss two brief topics (with a few asides): my dream of opening a steakhouse, and Peter Jackson’s Beatles documentary Get Back.
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Links:
- Who’s who in “Get Back”? A guide to the non-Beatles in Peter Jackson’s documentary.
- Amazon.com: iSi Classic MeshSodamaker for Making Carbonating Beverages, 1 Quart, Stainless Steel: Industrial & Scientific.
- American Giant.
- Bern’s Steak House in Tampa.
- Jamie Zawinski.
- The Sharper Image’s Bacon Express Toaster.
- Helen Rosner in The New Yorker: “Pellet Ice Is the Good Ice”.
- Hal’s New York Seltzer Water.
- “What makes Ringo a Great Drummer”.
- “World’s Great Drummers Salute Ringo Starr”.
- David Sims, Letterboxd one-sentence reviewer extraordinaire.
- RoboCop: Blank Check with Griffin & David.
- Amanda Hess in the NYT: “The Sublime Spectacle of Yoko Ono Disrupting the Beatles”.
- “Futura and Wes Anderson: A Love Story”.
- Atkinson Hyperlegible — an accessibility typeface.
- Hop Sing Laundromat:
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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November 30, 2021
•76m
Special guest Jim Dalrymple returns to the show to discuss the past and future of Apple-centric reporting.
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Links:
- MacCentral circa November 1996, as cached by the Internet Archive. Among the news of the week: the release of BBEdit 4.0.2 and Cyberdog 1.2 beta 2. One of those had a longer shelf life than the other.
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332: ‘The Post-Doom Era’, With Joanna Stern
December 23, 2021
•119m
Emmy Award-winning Joanna Stern returns to the show. Topics include: Apple’s new iCloud “legacy contact” feature, the current state and future of VR headsets, Elon Musk, and more.
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Links:
- Joanna on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon last week. (Really fun!)
- Gita Mini by Piaggio — the follow-along robot demoed on The Tonight Show.
- “Stuck in the Metaverse for 24 hours” — Joanna spends 24 hours alone in a hotel room wearing an Oculus Quest 2.
- “E-Ternal: A Tech Quest to Live Forever” — Joanna’s Emmy-winning documentary.
- Joanna’s “new roommate”.
- iOS 15.2’s “Legacy Contact” feature.
- “Springboard: The Secret History of the First Real Smartphone”.
- “General Magic: The Movie.”
- Joanna Stern interviews Elon Musk at the WSJ CEO Council Summit — video and transcript.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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