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The Talk Show With John Gruber

120: ‘The Move to Frisco’ With Guest Dan Frommer

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2015

⏱️ 138 minutes

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Summary

Special guest Dan Frommer returns to the show. Topics include David Letterman, iPhone docks, the space black steel Apple Watch, whatever happened to the Edition collection, San Francisco as the new system font for iOS and Mac OS X, and more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're Letterman fan?

0:02.0

Uh, yes.

0:04.0

You've been watching the end of the show?

0:06.0

Sort of, yeah. I watched last night and the night before.

0:12.0

Yeah.

0:13.0

The Bill Murray popping out of a cake.

0:16.0

That was kind of strange.

0:18.0

To me, it was a real throwback to the 80s.

0:22.0

I mean, that's the type of just nonsense from the late night show in the 80s.

0:28.0

Yeah. And I don't know.

0:30.0

Like, some of it, it almost seems like that the fact that Bill Murray was there was almost wasted.

0:37.0

But I guess not.

0:38.0

Because so much of it is reminiscing in those and the, you know, the old videos and that kind of stuff.

0:44.0

But it was fun.

0:46.0

Um, so we're recording on Wednesday, the 20th Letterman's final show will air.

0:51.0

Actually, he's probably funny. I didn't even think about it.

0:53.0

He's probably recording it as, as we are.

0:56.0

Well, that's actually kind of, whoa, that just gave me like goosebumps.

1:00.0

Actually, hang up and go.

1:02.0

It's funny. I've never gone.

1:05.0

I'm a huge Letterman fan.

1:07.0

Never once saw him live.

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