276: ‘Bring It On, Haters’ With Ben Thompson
The Talk Show With John Gruber
John Gruber
3.6 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2020
⏱️ 168 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We're going to make people so angry on this episode. |
| 0:03.6 | Well, just for the record, it is 7-16am. |
| 0:07.4 | On a holiday week, the kids are still in bed. |
| 0:11.0 | And I insisted I'd be happy to wake up early because I'm very excited about this episode. |
| 0:18.6 | Which we've been, it was funny because we'll get to it later, but I was actually confused |
| 0:22.9 | when you posted because we've been talking about it for so long. |
| 0:27.2 | I thought you'd already written about it. |
| 0:29.0 | Oh, we'll have to get to it then. |
| 0:33.2 | We have some sad news though to talk about first. |
| 0:35.4 | We have two obituaries to touch upon. |
| 0:41.8 | The one everybody I'm sure has heard about is Kobe Bryant, Lakers Superstar, which I |
| 0:49.2 | hate to say, it almost is like underselling what he meant to basketball and the world |
| 0:55.0 | at large. |
| 0:56.4 | He died, passed away with his 13-year-old daughter in a helicopter accident Sunday afternoon, |
| 1:03.3 | just shocking and clikin' Christiansen. |
| 1:07.8 | We can talk about after Kobe, I guess. |
| 1:11.2 | Lost of, he was only 67, which again, me knowing he was young is Kobe, of course, who |
| 1:15.0 | was 41, but still, just 60, you know. |
| 1:17.4 | That's how you know what you're getting old is when you hear somebody die to 67 and you |
| 1:20.6 | think, ah, too young. |
| 1:22.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:23.4 | But he lost a battle with leukemia this week too. |
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