214: ‘Only Wireless. Less Smart Than an Echo. Lame.’ With Paul Kafasis

Hosted byJohn Gruber

Special guest Paul Kafasis returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s new HomePod, Farrago (Rogue Amoeba’s new soundboard app for the Mac), the Philadelphia Eagles’ triumph over the “New England” Patriots in Super Bowl 52, and we stir up a controversy regarding a 10-year-old cocktail devised by the boys at You Look Nice Today.

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Links:

• You Look Nice Today: “Aunt Nancy”.
• Unofficial You Look Nice Today topic index.
• Video proof, from yours today, that you can’t spear a Mento.
• The Shirley Temple of Doom.
• Rich Siegel’s excellent presentation at Cingleton 2014 on removing BBEdit from the Mac App Store.
• Is the top of the HomePod a “touchscreen”? We decide no, it is not, rendering this Claim Chowder piece from yours truly wrong.
• HomePod reviews:
• Mine.
• Jim Dalrymple’s, with backstage footage from our tour of Apple’s audio lab.
• Matthew Panzarino’s for TechCrunch.
• Nilay Patel’s for The Verge.
• Brian Chen’s for the NYT.
• Farrago, Rogue Amoeba’s new soundboard app.
• Designing Farrago.
• Just The Tip: The Fracture Swap.
• buttholevideo.com.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.