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The Talk Show With John Gruber

129: ‘90 Minutes or Bust’ With Guest Ben Thompson

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2015

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

Special guest Ben Thompson returns to the show. Topics include: our top complaints about Apple Watch, Apple making a car, the New York Times's profile of Amazon's work culture, and more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

90 minutes or bust. I think we have the title already. I remember when people used to complain

0:08.7

when the show was over an hour. Yeah, and then you just gave up on it. I got bitter actually,

0:13.6

because someone was someone recommended by podcast on Twitter, which I appreciate it. And which I

0:19.3

will add, we are, because people are going to bitch that I'm recording with you and I haven't

0:23.4

recorded X-Planet all summer. We're going to record the next episode later today.

0:29.6

So I am back. I'm podcasting. But someone's like, oh yeah, but the problem is, you know,

0:34.1

all those podcasts is go on forever. They need some good editing. I'm like, I spend hours every

0:38.0

week editing our podcast to keep it to an hour. Don't let me in with Grover. I was very upset.

0:43.4

Well, I know what they mean, though. And I, you know, it would be a very different show, though.

0:47.9

You know, it's, it's, have you heard of this, the Slack, I think it's called the Slack Variety Pack?

0:56.0

No, I don't think so. It's new. Yeah, Slack Variety Pack. If you just Google Slack Variety Pack,

1:03.9

you'll find it. So it's a podcast that Slack is sponsoring. It's not the people who are making it

1:13.7

or not Slack employees, but they don't even get names or credit. And it is all, you know,

1:18.6

this is as as by design. But it's so, you know, it's sort of like the way that like,

1:28.0

I think like, wasn't like the Milton Burl show, like the Texaco Star Hour or something like that,

1:33.5

the Texaco something, you know, so it's just a podcast with the name the Slack Variety Pack. And

1:38.8

there's very, very minimal Slack promotion in it. But it's like each little 20-minute episode is

1:45.8

like a series of three or four minute very edited, like NPR style segments. It's sort of like NPR

1:53.7

for nerds. And it's really good. I did an interview with them for an episode that's coming up,

2:00.3

probably not in maybe like a month, seems like they're like a month ahead or something like that.

2:04.8

But I listened to a few episodes before I agreed to do it. And I was blown away. It's like,

2:08.4

NPR very edited, tightly edited, which is great. And I love it. And I've subscribed to the Slack

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