116: Women Aren’t a Minority
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2015
⏱️ 121 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-show: Marco defends his backyard duck from raccoons
- Follow-up:
- HFS+ and Network Attached Storage
- Photos.app
- LaunchControl for managing
launchdjobs - Microsoft, iOS, Swift (via @esusatyo)
- Marco versus the raccoons, illustrated
- How do we encourage more women to listen to ATP?
- Overcast changes for Apple Watch
- Are watches destined to replace smartphones?
- What were the first iPhone apps we downloaded?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We're going live. |
| 0:00.8 | I'm tired of this. |
| 0:02.3 | You got an appointment with the raccoon? |
| 0:04.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:05.0 | You got somewhere you got to be. |
| 0:06.1 | You're going to be out in the backyard with a 2x4. |
| 0:08.6 | That's actually what happened, and that actually worked. |
| 0:11.6 | Since almost hitting the raccoon with a 2x4, it has not come back. |
| 0:15.2 | Hitting the raccoon with a 2x4? |
| 0:16.4 | Is that code for something? |
| 0:17.2 | Did you really take a 2 by four to a raccoon like it's a friggin baseball bat? Yes. Have you ever played baseball in your life? I have played. I don't remember |
| 0:26.5 | whether I've actually gotten a hit. He was probably more like polo, really, with the new |
| 0:30.5 | sport that Marco Nannos exists. Oh yeah, that's right. Wait, but that's, that's on horses, |
| 0:34.1 | though, right? Yeah, but you're swinging down to a thing on the ground were you riding hops someone please draw that marco like don quixote on top of hops jousting with a two by four |
| 0:48.6 | against a rabid raccoon in the corner of the duck hiding guarding its eggs now people think we're crazy |
| 0:56.2 | who don't follow you on twitter there i mean i didn't like go and fetch a two by four i happened to |
| 1:01.3 | have a few in the backyard from uh adam's party we were holding down a big tarp with them so i had a few |
| 1:06.6 | very long two by fours in the backyard and we were standing in the backyard with these two raccoons |
| 1:12.1 | stalking the duck that's nesting in our backyard. And they'd already gone for it once and the duck |
| 1:16.6 | made some crazy noise and scared them off temporarily. But they were just like sitting there |
| 1:19.7 | maybe 12 feet away. It wasn't very far. And they were just sitting in the tree. And we tried like |
| 1:24.4 | shining the flashlight in their face, uh, throwing pine cones at them. |
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