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The Talk Show With John Gruber

110: ‘Rats in the Lobby’ With Guest Merlin Mann

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2015

⏱️ 129 minutes

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Summary

Merlin Mann returns to the show to talk about movies and shit.

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0:00.0

You still there. Oh, yeah. You know what it did. I oh you sound so much better. You know what I did

0:05.3

I plugged it into a different USB port. I think this is probably the last episode I'll record using

0:10.5

this old air. Oh, are you gonna go to the new iMac? No, well yeah, I guess I should. I

0:18.5

shouldn't why I don't record using the iMac. I don't know. Yeah, the air is powerful enough to

0:24.1

do that. It's probably why the show sounds like shit. No, you know what? And I actually know that

0:31.6

this this old MacBook Air that I've used I do it because I'm in some ways I'm a sentimental

0:36.7

idiot and I think I've recorded like every episode of the talk show for I don't know at least

0:42.5

the last three or four years using that air. So I want to keep doing it. Yeah, I mean you make that

0:47.7

it makes no technical sense. No, none at all, but you said not too long ago how in baseball as

0:52.8

baseball fans there are people who are into the numbers and people who are into the story

0:56.6

and that you're a story guy. Right. Right. And you know the MacBook Air has got a story. When I stopped

1:02.2

using my road I was I was pretty nervous because I was like I've been using this since 43 folders

1:06.7

MacBook weekly like you know it's so dumb. I'm just changing to a better mic like why would that

1:12.6

matter? It shouldn't but I felt like a little bit this loyal. What did you switch to? Well I tried

1:19.2

a couple things. I'm using a Sure SM 7B. No, it's got a it's super annoying because I got to go through

1:25.8

a this pre-sowness thing. Oh, I don't want that. I think Marco was telling me about that. Yeah,

1:32.9

I don't want to do that. I you know I think I just listen to too much rock music. When people have

1:38.7

these conversations about stuff I just I just don't hear it. I don't hear what they're talking about

1:43.5

and it makes me feel like a charlatan. I mean I can notice in production values like when like

1:51.0

the public radio show with a budget sounds different than three guys talking about Linux but like

1:55.7

I don't notice that much about mics and stuff to you. No, I don't. Yeah, you don't listen to a lot of

2:01.3

podcasts though. I mean I don't listen to a lot but I listen to enough but when I do I'm listening

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