125: A Better Future for Everybody
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2015
⏱️ 118 minutes
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Summary
- Follow-up:
- Do SSDs understand the data that they write?
- Honda Fit cameras
- Classical music on Apple Music
- Origins of "on an infinite timescale", thanks to official show historian _David Smith
- American radio sucks
- Safari is the new IE
- Microsoft eviscerates their phone business
- The frustrating comedy of business speak
- A brief history of John's feelings about Microsoft
- Post-show: the ridiculous comedy of Windows 8
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| 0:00.0 | I sound like crap because I'm still freaking sick. Yeah, I'm currently |
| 0:04.6 | Nursing a throat a lazing or whatever they call the cough drop. It's pronounced lasange. Ah, right and Bizzell |
| 0:10.8 | Yep, that was a reference John to you actually |
| 0:16.0 | Culturally significant that one time I missed pronounced the word it was culturally significant anyway |
| 0:20.8 | I have a question for you to how in the name of Zeus's butthole also a reference |
| 0:26.2 | Do you get healthy when you have a child that is waking up in the middle of the night more than occasionally because he's like in a wonder |
| 0:34.4 | Week or TV or sick or whatever |
| 0:37.2 | How do you ever get healthy if you can't sleep waking up in the middle of the night implies that the rest of the night the |
| 0:42.5 | Baby is sleeping so we really you don't know anything to plan about |
| 0:48.0 | This just this time the night when the baby wakes up if that is significant then that tells you that the rest of the night |
| 0:53.9 | You got expectations to be asleep so really you're you have a really good sleeping baby and you can't complain that much |
| 1:00.2 | How do you get better you will eventually it'll happen you'll see |
| 1:03.9 | All right, well to continue with the housekeeping |
| 1:06.4 | All kidding aside for the two of your benefit your for your two benefit and for the live listeners if |
| 1:11.9 | I suddenly go silent in the middle of saying something just give me five to ten seconds and assume I'm hacking up along and I'm just muted and |
| 1:20.0 | Just carry on or well, I guess don't carry on just give me a moment and if I really have disappeared |
| 1:25.6 | Assume that I've poured more stuff on Aaron's Mac and it's just all over this point |
| 1:30.5 | Dad now don't pour cough syrup on there for many reasons first of all |
| 1:34.0 | There's no way it would survive that second of all cough syrup doesn't actually work. That's probably true |
| 1:38.6 | It really like nothing like believe me. I'm an expert in coughing it like cough suppressants just don't work |
| 1:44.6 | Like the the only effective ones are like the narcotic ones that just knock you out. Yeah, that's that suppresses your cough because it puts you to sleep |
| 1:51.6 | It's not that's not really fixing the right problem. It's like yeah shooting you in the head, but also stop your cough |
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