143: ‘A Squirrel Eating a Duck’ With Merlin Mann
Hosted by
John Gruber
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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