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Accidental Tech Podcast

647: You Get One Exclamation Point

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.42.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 119 minutes

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0:00.0

John, something occurred to me. I was listening to directives earlier today, and it was very funny

0:05.2

to me that you two talked about Dasput because there is a forthcoming and comparable episode

0:10.4

that I was on where we talked about it. I also had never seen Dasput before. But it occurred to me

0:17.0

as you were talking about this and talking about your graduation results that you two are going to be empty nesters real freaking soon, which I think I knew, but it never

0:25.5

really, I never really thought about it. You are almost there. And how are we feeling about that?

0:31.2

Does it count as empty nester if your kids are still living at home? They're just at school?

0:34.6

I thought it was like when they move out.. I think strictly you are correct. I think that is, it's only when they move out permanently that you are

0:40.5

officially an empty nestor, but you're an effective empty nestor in a couple of months, and that's

0:44.7

wild. How are we feeling? I don't know. I feel like I just haven't looked that far yet, still

0:51.2

trying to always get over like the next turtle, and it's just like getting the kids off to school getting my daughter settled in her first college dorm getting

0:59.1

my son off for his senior year figuring out what he's going to do like it just feels like there's

1:02.5

still a lot of stuff to overcome but once they're settled in and I've stopped doing the 15 trips back

1:08.2

and forth to ferry all the things that they inevitably forgot.

1:12.4

I don't know, maybe ask me then.

1:13.4

That's fair.

1:16.6

Mostly, I think it'll be good for everybody involved

1:18.0

and it'll be a fun change,

1:19.3

but we'll see how it goes.

1:20.3

Maybe I'll just be bored.

1:23.0

Let's do some follow-up.

1:24.7

Tahoe is apparently dropping firewire support

1:26.9

and we should pour one out.

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