Hey there, it's your internet pal, John Gruber. I've got David Pogue on the show for this episode,

the author of many, many books, but author of the new book, Apple, the first 50 years.

David is in the midst of a very, very tightly packed media tour to promote the book,

and his time is really limited. It was really

kind of serendipitous that I got him at all. I got him right out off an airplane after he arrived

in Seattle, after being in Portland, didn't have the length of time. I would love to have had him.

So it's a little bit shorter of an episode than usual, even though we could have gone longer than usual.

And because his time was limited, literally he did like gotten off an airplane and he had to go to an event.

I didn't want to interrupt the show to do my sponsor reads live.

So I'm going to unusually for the talk show, record them in posts,

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