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The Talk Show With John Gruber

248: ‘Equally Confused’ With Peter Kafka

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2019

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Special guest Peter Kafka — executive editor at Recode and longtime reporter in the fields of media and technology — joins the show to discuss the announcements at last week’s “Show Time” event: Apple News+, Apple Card, Apple Arcade, and Apple TV Channels and TV+.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Peter Kafka, welcome to the talk show.

0:02.9

I love for having me on the talk show, John.

0:05.0

I have been on your show. You've never been online.

0:08.3

I'm happy to come to Philadelphia someday. I'm there with some frequency.

0:12.0

Are you really? Yeah. Yeah. I got in. Laws there.

0:14.6

Oh, that's a great city.

0:16.6

I can get you good tickets for the Thanksgiving day parade.

0:18.7

That's kind of how you're supposed to vote.

0:22.4

I will always get out of town for Thanksgiving.

0:25.1

All right. Change your mind.

0:27.4

So for background, you are what would it do with what's your beat at recode?

0:33.0

I covered the intersection of media and technology.

0:36.1

And who better to have on the show this week?

0:40.2

Good time to write.

0:43.8

I actually missed last week's event.

0:46.6

I was not present at the event because my family had a long scheduled

0:51.8

vacation at coincide with my son, spring break.

0:54.9

So it's the first it's the first event I've missed in.

0:58.1

I don't know how many years.

0:59.6

There were a long, long time ago I had an injury that or an eye surgery that prevented me from flying.

1:04.9

So I missed it. I missed one a couple years ago.

1:08.3

But you were there, of course.

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