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Accidental Tech Podcast

435: A Strong Number Four

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.3 β€’ 2.5K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 17 June 2021

⏱️ 131 minutes

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0:00.0

I'm enjoying a wonderful vanilla cream house salsa right now that I had to open with the pliers that are still in our fridge

0:07.4

From whenever that intro that we did to our show with TIFF was like six months ago or at least

0:13.5

You'd be like all buff from the rowing now. You should be able to just crank that sucker open

0:19.8

Actually, I actually my arms all messed up right now for other reasons, but yeah, whoa what happened?

0:24.1

Well, it's I've had some shoulder rotator cuff challenges over the last

0:28.6

I've been working through it with a PT friend so we're getting there

0:32.3

But I currently have this black tape on my arm this rock tape that makes you look really cool

0:37.1

It doesn't that that's not from trying to open the salsa, right? No, well, maybe I mean I guess I can't fully be sure what the root cause was

0:45.0

Maybe I opened so many Celsius over the last five years that I just I've wrecked my whole left shoulder, but it's all that major

0:52.3

Like pitching you've been doing yes, that's that's especially with my left arm since I'm right-handed

0:56.5

Not to mention the fact that I've not a baseball player. I was for one year in school

1:02.5

I was actually held back in T ball for an extra year

1:06.6

That was fourth grade, but then fifth grade I played regular baseball and I'm pretty sure I got one hit

1:14.4

for the entire year and

1:16.8

Did not play baseball after that how many have bats though because if that was your only at bat, that's a great average

1:23.4

Unfortunately far more than one

1:25.4

Oh, it's funny you it's funny say that I've told the story somewhere on the internet before but

1:30.4

When I was in fifth grade this was toward the height of me being interested in and playing basketball and

1:38.4

At my very best moments I was a

1:41.8

Passable basketball player. I was never good, but when I had a good day. I was passable and

1:47.7

Our fifth grade so this is not middle school. This is still elementary school in the states our fifth grade

1:53.9

school team which in and of itself was weird to have a school team fifth grade but be that as may it was you know a

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