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The Talk Show With John Gruber

362: ‘Grand Scale Foot-Shooting’, With Anil Dash

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2022

⏱️ 134 minutes

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Summary

Special guest: Anil Dash. A little about last week’s U.S. midterm elections, and a lot about what’s going on at Twitter under Elon Musk.

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0:00.0

The saying that's been in my head ever since you kindly agreed to be on the show today and I was thinking about what the stuff I wanted to talk about

0:08.2

is the the famous Chinese blessing that is in fact a curse

0:14.9

May you live in interesting times got what you're wishing for right and if that does not in a single sentence

0:22.1

summarize November

0:24.1

2022, I don't know

0:26.1

What else does I feel like I keep hearing that phrase and I keep hearing the dog who cut the car

0:32.5

It was chasing that very much so if you if you don't mind and I don't talk

0:38.7

Poll electoral politics often on the show, but it's it's been an eventful month

0:43.1

And I kind of feel it ties into the discussion of Twitter

0:46.2

Which is going to be the main thrust of the show. I don't know if you've heard I'm

0:52.0

I'm presuming that what's up

0:55.0

What but I don't think that they are unrelated at all?

0:58.4

They're inseparable right former TV game show host and New York real estate magnate Donald

1:05.7

Let me just check the spelling here Trump. Yeah, announced that he'd be running for president last night surprising

1:11.5

Absolutely nobody. Yeah, I can't believe it

1:13.3

But it there is a weird thing going on where the good news for me and you probably most people listening to the show

1:20.1

But I realized that because this is not a political show

1:22.4

There's certainly some people lean Republican who listen and I'm not trying to turn this opening segment into a go blue power hour

1:30.6

But you know the Democrats had a good election

1:34.1

Everybody I don't know any good. Yeah, shockingly good historically in the US where we have elections on a very

1:41.8

Regular schedule as opposed to like a parliamentary system every four years

1:45.6

We have a presidential election and in between we have what we call the midterm and

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