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Accidental Tech Podcast

199: 10,000 Hours of Coughing

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.42.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2016

⏱️ 111 minutes

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0:00.0

I'm gonna go go to bed and put my harmless one cheese back in the fridge.

0:02.4

Yeah, good idea.

0:03.2

I would recommend that.

0:05.4

How's things?

0:06.3

Still coughing, but you know, it's winter and I have a kid so that's a given, right?

0:12.4

Every ounce of my being wants to get smug about how, oh come on, I never get sick.

0:16.7

You can't, you must be just a week of immune system, but I know that I will be paying this price in two to three years.

0:24.1

One year, try one year.

0:26.4

Probably, that's true.

0:28.0

So my office has opened a,

0:31.4

um, uh, San Francisco, well, strictly speaking, an Oakland office, which I guess is different enough from San Francisco that people from the area get perturbed if you confuse the two.

0:41.1

Those California sensitivities.

0:43.1

And eight.

0:44.1

Um, while they've opened a Oakland office and the other day I was trying to get something accomplished with one of my co-workers out there.

0:53.0

And he had said, oh, I have to go for a long lunch because all the executives are in town.

0:57.9

And so, you know, always on vacation in California, blah, blah, blah.

1:00.6

Uh, and then I finally caught up with him after his long lunch.

1:04.6

This is already like roughly quitting time for me.

1:07.4

And he says, oh, you know what, I can't, uh, do a Google hangout with you to work through this issue because we're all going to the Tesla factory for a tour right now.

1:15.8

And I'm jealous.

1:17.8

And I wish I could have gone and I'm sad.

1:20.5

They don't get free cars, you know, they just, you know, see other cars being made.

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