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Accidental Tech Podcast

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Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.3 β€’ 2.5K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 25 March 2021

⏱️ 117 minutes

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0:00.0

So my day started out interesting. I got an email from my neighbor who was forwarding me the New York announcement that you can now get covid vaccines age 50 and up.

0:11.8

And he's like I'm not sure if you make it but here this might be useful to you.

0:14.9

Oh no.

0:16.6

I am 38.

0:19.2

Roodle.

0:20.4

Well let me really twist the knife because I'm that kind of jerk friend.

0:23.8

So I had an occasion to be standing in line today for reasons we're not going to talk about and and somebody asked me.

0:31.4

Oh, are you from one of the local colleges and I looked at that person and I was like thank you.

0:37.0

Thank you so much and not even close. I turned 39 last week but thank you.

0:40.9

Well did I think you were a student or a professor?

0:43.3

Oh, you know, you've ruined it for me because it's not a result.

0:47.6

Here's here's it's all about context Marco.

0:50.7

Uh, the the assumption of your neighbor that you would have to be approaching 50 to have a house on fire island is a safe bet demographically speaking.

0:59.8

And if you're hanging around with a bunch of college students someone who mistakes you for a college student.

1:04.8

It's all about context, right?

1:06.2

You know, that's the least exciting, interesting and funny but also probably most accurate explanation.

1:12.7

And also, and also the hair color those.

1:14.4

Yeah, I'm getting a lot of I'm getting a lot of salt in my pepper if you know what I'm saying. So I shouldn't really be throwing stones on that issue.

1:23.0

Marco, what would get you to actually leave your house like in COVID notwithstanding and go see a concert like we've established you're not a fan of fish concerts.

1:32.6

Is there a concert or perhaps a musical or some other sort of feeder like thing that you would be willing to attend or are you again COVID notwithstanding.

1:42.6

Are you totally hands off on anything that even vaguely smells like a concert?

1:47.1

My thinking on that has kind of changed recently.

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