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The Talk Show With John Gruber

274: ‘Sport Mode’ With Merlin Mann

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2020

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

Special guest Merlin Mann returns to the show. Topics include the renewal of U.S. law enforcement officials' disingenuous campaign against iPhone encryption, the Houston Astros cheating scandal, how that cheating scandal relates to the Trump impeachment saga, and Catalyst and the art of Mac software design. But mostly we talk about finding a good pair of slippers.

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I was so excited. I found the best slippers I've ever had.

0:07.0

I'm just so excited to tell you about them. I'm still going. Are they cozy?

0:15.0

Oh, they're so cozy. So they're from, they are not a sponsor of the show this week,

0:21.0

but they formerly sponsored the show Mac Weldon.

0:24.0

I'm wearing a Mac Weldon shirt right now.

0:28.0

I've got me on these. I'm sitting here. I have the reins. So I have to take off my pants.

0:32.0

I'm sitting here on my me on these and my Mac Weldon shirt.

0:37.0

They make good stuff. They really do.

0:39.0

They actually really do. At first I thought it seemed too costly,

0:42.0

but like my gosh, their stuff is so good. So well made and so comfortable.

0:46.0

Tell me about these slippers, man. I want to look them up.

0:49.0

All right, so I don't know if you remember, but from many, many years ago,

0:55.0

I believe, now I've, you know, I also suffer terribly from podcast amnesia,

0:59.0

but if I recall correctly on the previous incarnation of the show,

1:06.0

Dan Benjamin and I spoke a lot about slippers. Now I could be getting this wrong

1:10.0

because I have podcast amnesia. So my apologies to Mr. Benjamin if I'm getting it wrong.

1:16.0

So every day somebody's, every day somebody's born, he's never seen the Flintstones.

1:20.0

Don't worry. There's somebody who has not heard about the one-mile slipper.

1:23.0

Now I really like slippers in a winter because I just, I just peter about the house.

1:28.0

You know, I don't leave, but you need slippers because it's cold and the floors,

1:32.0

you know, get, get really cold. And you can't do good work with cold feet.

1:37.0

Now I have very strong feelings about slippers. I want slippers that have a bit of a back.

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