122: ‘Everyone Needs a Jerk’ With Guest Mark Gurman
The Talk Show With John Gruber
John Gruber
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🗓️ 7 June 2015
⏱️ 142 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Here we are. We're recording on Friday, June 5th. So three days before WWE DC keynote, |
| 0:07.6 | and my guest is Mark German from 95 Mac fame. Mark, they would have been about a year since you've |
| 0:15.6 | been on the show. Yeah, I think last time was a little bit of after the previous WWE DC. |
| 0:22.4 | Well, I couldn't think of anybody better to have for the WWE DC preload show as I would call it |
| 0:29.2 | than you. Appreciate it. You've had a remarkable run this year in my opinion. Well, |
| 0:34.8 | we'll see how it comes on Monday, but it looks like you have scored an enormous number of scoops. |
| 0:42.5 | Thanks, I appreciate it. People who don't want Christmas spoils should probably just stop |
| 0:46.4 | listening now. Yeah, I'd agree with that one. |
| 0:51.6 | Were you the type of kid who hunted through the house for Christmas presents? |
| 0:58.7 | I'm Jewish, so. Okay. Well, Hanukkah, no. Right. But we have Passover, and the tradition is to hide |
| 1:06.4 | the Motsa somewhere in the house, and I would always be the one to find it when I was growing up. |
| 1:11.4 | So yeah, pretty much. Yeah, but are you supposed to hide? You're supposed to find that. |
| 1:16.7 | Right. What about like birthday presents? Oh, yeah. Maybe I go digging sometimes for those. |
| 1:23.6 | I don't really remember, but I get your point. I remember twice doing it, and I |
| 1:30.5 | the thing is that I found it at the same place both times. One time I found a |
| 1:35.6 | brand new dirt bike, a bicycle in the basement. There's this like, in the back of my parents' basement, |
| 1:43.6 | there's like a little like extra room behind the door, and I wasn't even looking for presents. |
| 1:48.4 | I just, I don't know, whatever. I was just bored and looking around the basement, and I went in there, |
| 1:53.7 | and there was this awesome brand new shiny chrome dirt bike with red trim and red tires. |
| 2:01.0 | And I was so naive, and this was, I don't know, like a couple of weeks before my birthday. |
| 2:06.1 | And I'm so naive. I didn't think, holy shit, they got me a dirt bike for my birthday. I thought, |
| 2:12.8 | why is there a dirt bike in my parents' basement? |
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