550: A Wizard With No Choices
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2023
⏱️ 126 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-show: 🤬 cancer. Help sick kids. Donate to St. Jude now.
- Follow-up:
- Obscura 4 is out! (App Store link)
- Alternative TCL TV workarounds (via Chris Berryhill)
- Child Gmail Accounts
- Children cannot set up email forwarding (via Henri Sivonen)
- Child accounts are ripe for recovery issues (via Sriram Karra)
- Trouble in HomePod paradise
- iMac G5 perks (via Aaron Walker)
- Ads on the ATP YouTube channel
- Truck routing
- Apple Event on September 12
- Exit Interviews
- iPhone 14
- Watch Ultra
- Watch Series 8
- A special Exit Salute
- Post-show: Casey’s new vibraslap
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Actually three minutes early today for I think the first time ever might be are we supposed to kill time to give people a chance to actually tune in |
| 0:07.9 | Hello computers are good. No, we just we just start early. We don't want to vamp. We can vamp |
| 0:12.4 | No, it doesn't that kind of disrespect people who try to get here on time |
| 0:16.1 | It does not it so rarely happens. We have to take advantage of it because we got stuff to do |
| 0:21.8 | It's two minutes. They want to take a missing two minutes. It's nothing |
| 0:25.0 | It could be the best two minutes in ATP history. You never know odds are low |
| 0:29.1 | Yeah, well apparently we're just getting started. So here we go |
| 0:33.2 | All right, so as you hear this it is likely |
| 0:36.8 | September or if it's not September it is really really close to September |
| 0:41.2 | Which means it is childhood cancer awareness month and for the |
| 0:46.0 | consecutive year |
| 0:47.1 | I don't know how many it's been now that's okay for a few years now |
| 0:50.8 | We have joined ourselves slash our friends at relay FM in order to raise money for st. Jude children's research hospital |
| 0:58.8 | So if you're new here, let me explain it to you or if you've been here before well, you know what you should be excited about this |
| 1:04.5 | This is a great time of year. So st. Jude's st. Jude Children's Research Hospital is a hospital in Memphis, Tennessee |
| 1:10.8 | That are mutual dear friends Stephen Hackett |
| 1:14.1 | He and his family went there when their eldest son was afflicted with childhood cancer like six months old |
| 1:20.6 | And they got literally millions of dollars of treatment from st. Jude and what's magical about st. Jude one of the many things that's magical about st. Jude |
| 1:27.7 | Is that they don't charge their their patient families anything at all |
| 1:32.4 | They don't charge for travel in some cases. They don't travel to put them up or excuse me charge to put them up |
| 1:38.1 | They don't certainly don't charge for the services |
| 1:39.9 | It's really unbelievable and especially in a broken freaking country like ours is it's doubly unbelievable |
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