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The Talk Show With John Gruber

268: ‘With Ham I’d Be Better’ With Dave Mark

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2019

⏱️ 140 minutes

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Summary

Special guest Dave Mark joins the show, for a discussion mostly about AirPods Pro and partly about the 2019 World Series.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Oh my god, dude. So this is the weirdness of podcasting. Number one, it's the weirdness of the erratic schedule of the talk show where I just published a show with MULTS yesterday, but I gotta get another October show in and there's so much more to talk about. That's it's not just, you know, the month. It's actually a lot of topics.

0:17.0

But when MULTS and I talked, I think the NADS backs were against the wall. Now it's tied three to three. We're talking just hours before game seven of the World Series between your beloved nationals and the Houston Astros.

0:39.0

Who might be the best team in baseball? Yankees aside. You know, Astros had the best record and the Astros beat the Yankees so, you know, fairs fair.

0:50.0

So I don't know if you're aware of this, but my I was just in Houston for the entire time that the nationals were playing in DC. No, I didn't know that. Yeah, my whole family's in Texas. So I was I watched all the games, but I didn't get to go to any of them.

1:07.0

And they went to the games when they were in Houston. So they'll they'll probably be there tonight.

1:12.0

You don't sound like you're from Texas.

1:15.0

I'm not my you know, it's a it's a broad family all over the country like that might we come from immigrants and they settled in different places like that.

1:23.0

Yeah, my cousin Rob is a couple years older than me grew up in northern New Jersey, you know, sort of the graders suburban New York area.

1:33.0

And I think when he was around 21, 22 or so moved to Dallas and lived there for quite a while and very quickly picked up a Texas accent.

1:45.0

That's kind of funny. I grew I was born in the Bronx if you can believe it.

1:50.0

I can hear that a little bit interesting, interesting. I get so much people, you know, say I don't hear an accent from you, but then I'll say dog.

2:00.0

Yeah, all of a sudden you sound like Susan Walton, the Yankees radio announcer.

2:07.0

Everybody I'm sure people who are listening to the show are familiar with your work. I linked to probably at least once a week.

2:13.0

But if you're not Dave, is do you even have a title or no, you're just you're just probably executive editor of the loop.

2:21.0

If that's a thing.

2:23.0

Yeah, when I used to work at bare bones software 20 years ago, it was a long time ago, if you think about it.

2:31.0

When I first got there, Rich Siegel, the founder, you know, bankers of BVM. He had business cards and Jim Korea, who's now he's moved on.

2:41.0

He's at the he's at the Omni group now. Good friend of mine now developer software developer.

2:47.0

I think Jim now works mostly on Omni focus, very popular app. But anyway, when I was at bare bones, Jim's business cards said Jim Korea guy who does all the work.

2:59.0

And Rich Rich is said Rich Siegel guy who takes all the credit.

3:06.0

Or gets all the brilliant. Yeah, so maybe you and Jim need cards like that as well. Yeah, yeah, that's where I'm going.

3:12.0

I got I got to work on that. Yeah, anyway, good luck tonight. So anyway, but that's what I'm saying about the the offsetting of podcasting is this show won't come out till tomorrow.

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