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The Talk Show With John Gruber

202: ‘You Tell Me If It’s a Dongle’ With Joanna Stern

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2017

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Special guest Joanna Stern returns to the show. Topics include Apple Watch Series 3, our mutual fear of heights, Velcro, and more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This should be easy for you. You do video now. You do so much video.

0:03.3

And now, yeah.

0:04.3

So just recording audio should be a sin.

0:06.1

See, it's for me. This is complicated.

0:08.1

Yeah. I do all of, I do single-handedly all the video and audio production at the Wall Street Journal.

0:14.3

Which is crazy.

0:15.9

Yeah. I'm just sitting in the recording booth all day.

0:19.5

Then I run and I deal with the cameras, change the lenses, shine the lenses.

0:24.9

I really, I do find, and I don't even do the editing of my podcast.

0:28.4

So I still find it.

0:30.3

You don't?

0:31.2

No, I have, I have a guy named Caleb Sexton who is awesome and does it for me.

0:35.6

Well, he has an awesome name.

0:37.0

Yeah, he does.

0:38.4

The problem.

0:39.4

I upload the stuff for him and then he listens through it and.

0:41.7

Yep.

0:42.7

And he finds a good place to cut in for the cold opening.

0:44.8

He takes out all of our stupidums and odds.

0:46.7

He makes sure our levels are good.

0:48.3

Anybody who enjoys the audio quality of the show can think.

0:51.5

Whatever, when I curse, does he?

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