345: Unapologetically Digital
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 β’ 2.5K Ratings
ποΈ 27 September 2019
β±οΈ 111 minutes
ποΈ Recording | iTunes | RSS
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Summary
- Last chance for September donations to St. Jude
- Analog(ue) #166 (to be released Sunday, 29 September)
- Podcastathon video
- Pre-show: The fine art of literature, and staying young.
- Follow-up:
- Casey's iMac Update
- Apple Watch Series 5 impressions
- iPhone 11 Pro impressions
- Post-show: π
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I am back on my iMac back and better than i don't know well better than the mappog |
| 0:04.4 | one that is true my poor little adorable six to my left sad that it is not the |
| 0:09.3 | star of the show anymore is it fast enough to feel sadness fair question it's |
| 0:15.2 | actually funny i'm reading a reading a book by the author Blake Crouch who if you |
| 0:18.5 | know at all he did this trilogy wayward pines which was really really bananas |
| 0:23.6 | and um i've read several of his novels at this point i've come to really really |
| 0:28.1 | like all of them and i'm about halfway through uh what is it recursion i believe is |
| 0:32.7 | the name of the novel quince only which is a very uh on on brand um |
| 0:38.0 | anyway yes it's called recursion and it's uh all of these novels are about like |
| 0:44.7 | what is or is not real and how do you know what's real and can you |
| 0:50.0 | screw up your perception of reality and it's that sounds very like negative and dark |
| 0:54.0 | it isn't they're they're fascinating novels and in fact this was all stemmed by Marco |
| 0:58.1 | is the adorable capable of feeling sadness is it fast enough to feel sadness and un |
| 1:03.1 | unbeknownst to Marco that was very on point given i was reading just before the uh |
| 1:06.5 | just before the broadcast tonight about whether or not reality is really real is this real |
| 1:10.8 | is this now are you real i mean you know that i have such a broad and and deep knowledge of |
| 1:18.4 | literature especially and even it's even deeper than my knowledge on film i just have |
| 1:24.9 | i have such a passion for the fine world of literature and film naturally john you don't |
| 1:30.7 | you don't read novels that often do you i don't recall uh i've used to do it more i i i keep buying |
| 1:36.6 | them and i keep starting them i'm in the middle of like four right and i get slow down how you |
| 1:42.4 | you start one and then you pick up another how are you how are you how are you okay with this but |
| 1:45.4 | not okay with merlin starting and then stopping and then starting a film books are different you |
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