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Accidental Tech Podcast

606: A Decade of Half-Presses

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.42.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2024

⏱️ 160 minutes

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0:00.0

I am back on the beach today and I'm so happy the beach in September is beautiful because

0:05.7

It's still pretty warm some of the restaurants are still open and there's no one here

0:10.8

Like it like because as soon as the school year starts, everyone stops coming here.

0:16.3

It's like the, you know, the workers who work locally here call it Tumbleweed Tuesday the day

0:20.4

after Labor Day.

0:21.6

Because it's just, it literally is like a light switch like

0:25.2

Labor Day weekend massive you know crowded everything and then literally like Tuesday

0:29.8

just tumbleweets blow through the town. Like, no one is here.

0:34.0

So it is, you know, we're not able to spend a ton of time here

0:37.5

because we also are bound now by the mainland school year,

0:40.2

but, wow, it's so, it's so nice here. It's like walking through like one of those like deserted video game levels.

0:46.5

Fewer zombies. Yeah, few. Well, I mean, you know, the few people who were left, know were certainly an eccentric crowd certainly

0:54.5

some characters walking around we don't get sent a lot of side quests though but

0:59.4

but it is certainly certainly some some eccentric.

1:04.0

That's part of one of the one of the best things I love about

1:08.0

being here in this weird Beachtown is that the people who are here for long enough, I don't know if it makes you eccentric or if only

1:15.7

eccentric people can tolerate being here for that long, but whatever it is it selects for eccentricity.

1:22.2

And so everyone here is weird like I fit it in great because I'm

1:26.1

weird too I'm just and I'm weird in different ways than some of the other ones but like

1:30.0

everyone here is just so gloriously weird I feel so at home here like

1:36.4

Long Island has its weirdos for sure but it's it's more like regular suburban

1:41.5

America you know you don't see a lot of that coming out.

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