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Accidental Tech Podcast

41: Penny Wise, Pound Foolish

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.32.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2013

⏱️ 136 minutes

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Someone says the circuit sounds really nasal. Yeah welcome to the show. We used a

0:09.0

different version of the theme song last week and so our friend of the show

0:14.1

Jonathan Mann that's MA Double N who is the guy who wrote the initial theme

0:18.7

song and the slightly beloved bleeps and bloops version which is the one that

0:24.3

John likes but nobody else does. He took it upon himself to write a new

0:27.6

version and we sprinkled that into the show or I should say Marco sprinkled that

0:30.9

into the show. Did you hear apparently on the after dark for this week's back to

0:35.3

work? Merlin Mann our friend Merlin covered it briefly and said he was working

0:39.7

on a full cover. I am very much looking forward to hearing that and because the

0:44.4

brief part that he did sounded really good. Hey Merlin you should finish that up

0:56.5

and we will play it. Look of course does nothing for you. This is like you

1:01.0

should work for free for exposure. He does this. Sometimes he does like style

1:06.2

parodies. Like you did a lot of that with the what was it the Mailchimp. But

1:15.7

anyway if if Merlin was listening and he's doing a style parody I would like

1:18.9

to request an REM style parody. You can do like you know murmurs or fables

1:24.4

that are REM.

1:28.5

Frank is wheelhouse. Speaking of working for exposure well we should get to

1:32.0

the Penny Arcade thing but first we have some follow up. Who wants to talk about

1:35.6

photo stream? Not it. John follow up defaults to you. All right I mean like we

1:41.2

keep talking about photo stream and I don't even remember where this link came

1:44.6

from but oh yeah Dave who's last time I won the attempt to pronounce because he

1:49.4

can't agree on how he wants people to pronounce his last name but it starts with

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