339: ‘2006: Hard Work’, With Ken Kocienda
The Talk Show With John Gruber
John Gruber
3.6 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2022
⏱️ 143 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Ken Kishenda, welcome to the talk show, you're overdue. |
| 0:04.4 | A little bit, by how many years would you make it out to be? |
| 0:07.7 | Your book, oh, let me actually check the copyright date. 2018. |
| 0:11.3 | So what time of the year in 2018 did creative selection come out? |
| 0:16.4 | It was September. |
| 0:18.1 | It was September. |
| 0:18.4 | The third or fourth is our rule. |
| 0:20.3 | So what? |
| 0:21.1 | A three plus years late. |
| 0:23.2 | Because, and I call the show the talk show, and I like to think it is like a real talk show. |
| 0:29.1 | But the whole point of actual, most actual talk shows is that when you have a guest with something to promote, |
| 0:36.1 | if it's on the Stephen Colbert show or something like that, and there's a movie, |
| 0:39.6 | they'll have the actor come out right before or right when the movie first hits theaters. |
| 0:44.8 | Or if that would have made my publisher really happy, I can say. |
| 0:48.6 | The bright side of that, I tell you though, the bright side of the publisher was very happy with you, |
| 0:54.2 | because your link to the book was by far the best publicity that the book had. |
| 1:04.0 | There was a huge bump in pre-orders right after you linked. |
| 1:08.4 | And I tell you funny story about that is that I didn't know that was going to happen. |
| 1:12.5 | And my wife and I were in the car. |
| 1:16.3 | We were driving down the coast towards Santa Barbara for just a weekend getaway. |
| 1:22.4 | Maybe we can look back at the date. Maybe it was a Friday or a Saturday or something like that. |
| 1:27.1 | So we were going into a part where I was going to lose cell phone coverage. |
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