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Accidental Tech Podcast

657: Ears Are Weird

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.32.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2025

⏱️ 113 minutes

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0:00.0

John, I have to update my number.

0:04.1

It's now one.

0:06.2

How many phones you've smashed?

0:07.7

Mm-hmm.

0:08.8

Oh, no. Well, at least you did it right before the new one.

0:11.6

You're so angry at these old phones.

0:14.1

Now the new ones are out, you have to smash them.

0:16.5

Literally, hours after I ordered its replacement.

0:20.4

Well, that's the time to do it. For the first time ever, I missed my pocket. Oh, no. Now, remind me, are you a caseless, casey list as well? I mean, you're obviously not a caseless casey list, but do you roll with a case or no? I have been going caseless for maybe, I don't know, six months, something like that. You had the leather sticker thing on the back, right? Oh, that's right. Yes, yes, yes. But that doesn't project against hitting on the corner or the front. No, and this was literally like I was getting into my car in my driveway, and I was wearing new shorts. I'm not used to these. Maybe that's the problem.

0:54.5

Who knows?

0:54.9

Who cares?

0:55.5

I put my phone down into my pocket, but it was not in my pocket, and I let go. And so it fell, I don't know, my legs aren't that long, two and a half feet. I don't know. You were still on the ground at this point? well yeah I was standing on the sidewalk, you know, on my driveway in front of my car.

1:12.6

I was about to get in my car.

1:13.5

I put the phone and I dropped it from pocket height onto the concrete driveway.

1:20.1

And it didn't sound like much, but I picked it up and it hit the back corner.

1:26.1

And so the back glass has a huge spider crack. Oh,

1:29.4

that's all right. The screen's okay. You're fine. Well, the good thing is I have AppleCare,

1:33.8

it turns out. But I am back to using the leather stick on back again in the meantime.

1:40.7

You don't say. Well, fun fact, I'm pretty damn sure we covered this on the show but uh the express

1:46.0

replacement is great but it costs you 100 bucks if you're going to get this thing fixed i would

1:50.5

strongly advise for you to do so at an apple store and save yourself the hundred bones oh i didn't

1:56.5

do that i just ordered the hundred bucks thing and it's going to be here, I think, tomorrow. I mean, that is certainly the easier way,

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