220: ‘$270 Worth of Unneeded Keyboards’ With Jim Dalrymple
The Talk Show With John Gruber
John Gruber
3.6 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2018
⏱️ 119 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Music |
| 0:23.0 | Seeing people say I don't have a theme song, I do have a theme song, I just use it very infrequently. |
| 0:29.0 | This will make sense, it will make sense why I brought the old pick and boogers with John out of the archive. |
| 0:35.0 | Later on in the show it will make sense. But I don't know if you remember the backstory on that. |
| 0:40.0 | The backstory on that is when I first took the show, I went solo with it, dropped the partnership with Dan Benjamin. |
| 0:50.0 | There was controversy, they're still going to the iTunes store and see comments from people who were very angry about this in 2013 or 2012 whenever the hell it was. |
| 1:00.0 | But the second week of the show I believe I had Adam Lee-Sagoron. |
| 1:05.0 | And we addressed the controversy and Adam said that he doesn't care what I call the show, I could call it pick and boogers with John and he would still listen. |
| 1:15.0 | And then Adam and his friend and collaborator Alex Weinstein made a pick and boogers with John theme song. |
| 1:27.0 | That was it. |
| 1:29.0 | That's good. We used it a couple of weeks. |
| 1:32.0 | Anyway it will make sense later on in the show. How are you Jim? |
| 1:36.0 | I'm doing good. How are you doing? |
| 1:39.0 | I'm doing great. |
| 1:42.0 | Feeling good? Springtime? Weather's picking up. So you don't have that problem out there in California. |
| 1:47.0 | You got good weather 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year until a much slide comes and takes out your house. |
| 1:56.0 | Or an earthquake. |
| 1:58.0 | Right here in Philadelphia we're enjoying finally some good weather. Really nice. |
| 2:04.0 | Yeah well you're just getting out of the deep freeze though. |
| 2:06.0 | It was a long winter. Really felt like it really felt like we did very few nice days in March or April. |
| 2:16.0 | Lots going on. Nothing major I guess. |
| 2:18.0 | Have you seen this thing that's picked up again today where I believe she's the leading spokesperson on the issue is Casey Johnston who's she now an editor at the outline. |
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