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Accidental Tech Podcast

685: The Ability to Be Hotter

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.32.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2026

⏱️ 136 minutes

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0:00.0

John, do you want to step into the corner with me, the anniversary corner?

0:05.2

Because on episode 476, on the 30th of March, 2022, do you know what you did, John?

0:11.4

No idea.

0:12.4

You announced your independence.

0:14.3

Oh.

0:15.1

Four years ago.

0:16.0

Happy Independence Day.

0:17.0

I always forget this is in March.

0:18.5

I also forget the total number of years, so thank you for reminding me again. You get fireworks? Yeah, we should get fireworks. Can we, can we, we, we'll have our editor, edit it. Sent with fireworks. There you go. I just gave you the text version. Right, right. Anyway, happy anniversary, John. I'm glad that you are still independent and things are still going okay.

0:39.2

Basically sums it up.

0:40.3

Thank you.

0:42.0

Are there any learnings, as they say, that you would like to share with us?

0:47.1

Ew.

0:48.8

Yeah, I don't know.

0:50.1

I don't have any wisdom to impart at this time.

0:53.1

But I'm glad I'm still here and making it work.

0:56.3

Me as well, and I'm sure I speak for Marco when saying that.

0:58.8

Yeah, you may have to speak for me a lot tonight because I'm a little bit tired because, as I mentioned, a couple after shows ago, I'm training for this 32-mile Manhattan walk.

1:08.9

And what that means is taking a lot of long walks. And today's was the

1:12.7

longest so far at 22 miles. So it's been and there was like, we're trying to schedule around like,

1:18.6

you know, Easter and spring break and stuff. And there was really no other time to record the show

1:22.5

besides the evening of me doing a 22 mile walk to start at 6 in the morning. So the jokes might be a

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