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Accidental Tech Podcast

447: Lunchbox on Your Face

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.3 β€’ 2.5K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 9 September 2021

⏱️ 133 minutes

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0:00.0

Big day for me big day for Richmond we took down the last of the monuments on Monument Avenue. There's an avenue that runs through Richmond called Monument Avenue

0:06.8

Guess what there's much monuments used to be on it last one Robert E. Lee trader came down today

0:11.6

I'm very excited about that so no more Confederate monuments on Monument Avenue, which is very good news progress

0:16.8

So big day big day mm-hmm. I should put up new ones. It's still called Monument Avenue

0:21.2

You can put monuments there. Just don't put crappy ones. Yeah, no argument. Absolutely no argument at all

0:27.0

If I say that knowing that they probably do sports team stuff, which is great

0:32.3

I don't know. What does a what does a hoki look like? Well, you know as a former tour guide is as the former president of the Hoki Ambassadors

0:39.9

Thank you very much. I can tell you that a hoki

0:42.9

I can tell you that a hoki is is me. I am a hoki because I am an alumni of Virginia Tech

0:48.3

You sound like a hoki. Are you petitioning for a monument? Yeah, no. I'm not petitioning for a monument for me

0:53.0

Although I can tell you that the war memorial chapel has eight pylons above it at Virginia Tech and the eight pylons stand for the eight virtues of Virginia Tech which are brotherhood

1:02.0

Look pro-sum, which is our Latin, which is our school motto. I which is that I may serve leadership loyalty service sacrifice honor in duty

1:08.1

Still got it baby. Whoo

1:10.4

All right, you said duty. This is a very useful skill. I can walk backwards like the best of them. Let me tell you

1:16.7

Oh my god

1:17.4

I guess we can't make one of being called hoki when well Mark O'Can because he lives in a place with a with a town called

1:22.8

Hicksville

1:24.4

I don't live on that island. That's your island, sir

1:27.2

Yes, you do you live on Long Island. Oh my god. No, I don't

1:32.0

It's a very different place. No go find a map of Long Island that does not include fire Island go ahead

1:38.1

Find me one. It's a very different place. I know I was there this morning. I had to drive through it

1:43.3

It's a very different place. I know it's hard to wrap your mind around the idea that there's a place called Long Island

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