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The Talk Show With John Gruber

282: ‘Everybody Is an Expert’ With Joanna Stern

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2020

⏱️ 131 minutes

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Summary

Joanna Stern returns to the show to talk about working from home, the utter suckitude of laptop webcams, the new MacBook Air, and Face ID in our new world of face-mask-wearing.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Well, good news for you is my mic is like all set up and I know how to use an external

0:04.6

mic right now very well because that's my whole life.

0:07.7

It is everybody's life.

0:09.7

I don't I feel like everybody is becoming an expert.

0:14.4

My whole setup is like it's like usually when I podcast from you it takes like 15 minutes

0:19.0

to get all set and everything and I'm like nope got it all ready to sync the audio and

0:23.5

garage band.

0:25.0

Everything's good.

0:28.3

My friend, Paul Cfassus runs Rogamibba software.

0:31.6

They do he's been on the show before they do audio hijack sound source.

0:40.0

They do you know a whole bunch of things but largely audio related and so obviously there's

0:44.3

a lot of interest in their software because people are recording audio from calls and stuff.

0:48.5

Anyway, there was a tweet today.

0:49.9

I forget who sent it but there was a screenshot of Oprah doing some kind of thing with Face

0:55.0

Time and she had audio hijack running on her Mac which was exciting for them.

1:00.7

It's Oprah right?

1:01.7

It's Oprah, you know, but it's so funny because she's just like us right?

1:05.3

She's just got a Mac.

1:07.1

She's running Face Time and she's got her Mac propped up with like three or four books

1:12.5

to get the webcam up at a reasonable height and it's like Oprah.

1:17.1

She's a billionaire.

1:18.1

She's Oprah and she's just like us.

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