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Accidental Tech Podcast

56: The Woodpecker

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.32.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2014

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Given your musical taste, I bet you'll like Coldplay.

0:02.9

I do like Coldplay. I prefer Radiohead, but I like Coldplay.

0:06.4

I prefer Energy.

0:10.7

That's probably a perfectly reasonable joke that I just did not get.

0:13.4

No, you got it.

0:16.9

So, John, tell us about the fountain format.

0:19.2

Yeah, we mentioned this in the show where we talked about script notes.

0:22.8

Fountain is that markdown-like format that you use to write

0:26.6

screenplays and the time that I...

0:30.2

We brought up the second time I said it was invented by John August

0:33.4

and someone tweeted me to just clarify.

0:35.3

It was created by John August and Nima Yusefi and Stu Meshwitz.

0:39.0

So, three people created not just John August.

0:41.1

Don't want to just give credit to the one guy who happens to have a podcast

0:43.9

that we listen to and talk to about.

0:46.0

And they're still talking about.

0:47.5

There you go, you know.

0:48.7

I mean, it's just a thing about the correction that that's small.

0:51.5

Like, I think it's worth correcting,

0:53.4

but like, you have no place to correct for it except in the follow-up.

0:56.4

So, like, if I just tweet about it and I have to rely on everyone in this

0:59.5

and the podcast also following me on Twitter.

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