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The Talk Show With John Gruber

145: ‘Anthropomorphic Human Bowel’ With Ben Thompson

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2016

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

Special guest Ben Thompson returns to the show. Topics include last Sunday’s Super Bowl 50 (and its mostly terrible commercials), Tim Cook’s tweet with a photo he took from the sidelines post-game, Twitter’s algorithmic timeline and the state of today’s Google- and Facebook-dominated online advertising industry, Yahoo’s dismal prospects, and more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Do you watch football?

0:04.0

Kind of I know you're a basketball guy. I know your NBA guy

0:08.0

Yeah, football football

0:12.0

I like the idea of, you know, like I'm gonna like boycott football because it's like killing people

0:20.0

Yeah, and I can be yourself righteous about it and say well, I don't watch I don't watch football

0:24.8

The problem is that the main reason I watch football is because it's on in the middle of the night

0:29.2

And I find football of all the sports the least amenable to watching not live

0:35.2

Which is weird because if you watch it not live you can watch it in like 30 minutes right

0:41.0

But and because I know

0:43.4

When I came to Taiwan the first time I like there weren't really any streaming things. It was much more difficult to do then

0:49.6

And then when I went back for four years

0:52.0

I was right back right right back on the couch and said they have to do it

0:55.6

So I know I'm gonna have a big hypocrite about it. So I do watch some I do watch it some

1:01.2

I actually got the NFL package this year, but I'm terribly conflicted about it

1:05.1

But it's such it's I mean, you know, it is so compelling. So did you watch the Super Bowl?

1:10.3

I did I did and did were you able to watch it live?

1:13.7

Yeah, I I have the the NFL streaming

1:18.0

um

1:19.0

Thing which it actually includes all the commercials and all that sort of stuff. So I was um

1:24.4

Able to offer snide remarks along with the rest of Twitter

1:29.2

I feel the same way about you. I forget if I've talked about this on the show before I I know I've linked to it

1:34.7

And I know kaki has to that it's like the NFL is so incredibly popular in the United States

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