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Accidental Tech Podcast

691: A Menlo Phase

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.3 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2026

⏱️ 115 minutes

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0:00.0

I would like to tell you that I'm upset at the two of you. And the reason I'm upset at the two of you is because I am finally getting around to reading Project Hail Mary. And I can't put it down. It's so freaking good. No spoilers, please, anyone. But did you see the movie? No. So this was the impetus was that Aaron decided that she would like to read the book before we watched the movie. And then I was like now no, she's probably got the right answer there. So I started to read the book a little bit behind her,

0:24.8

and she's a much faster reader than I am. So I am reading it. I'm a little bit less than halfway

0:31.2

through, I'd say. And it is, this book is a sniper attack complimentary on my wife wife because it is all like biology and science.

0:41.2

I'm not going to get any more specific than that.

0:42.7

But she is freaking riveted.

0:45.0

I am also riveted.

0:46.5

And so I'm a little upset at you too that I'm having to spend my time with some of my best friends instead of reading my book.

0:52.1

I'm sorry.

0:52.8

I will say I did see the movie. And without spoiling anything, I thought it was excellent. I really enjoyed it. That is generally what I've heard. All right. I saw the movie too. It was rare. Marco and I both went to see a movie in a theater. That's wild, but it happened. Oh, that is true. Wow. And I did not. Wow, what a slack run. I think the think the last movie I saw in the theater was F1 to give you an idea of how little I go to the theater these days.

1:14.5

Oh, wow.

1:15.6

I'm really slack.

1:16.9

And, man, I have problems over at my household.

1:19.8

Goodness.

1:20.1

Well, that's right.

1:20.9

The other pre-show I wanted to do is I asked John to do a little bit of homework. And in Marco's defense, I did not explicitly say to Marco one way or the other, whether or not he was expected to do the same homework.

1:32.2

And so he didn't, which is fine.

1:34.1

But Mark, but John.

1:35.1

I can barely do the homework that is assigned to me, let alone homework that is not.

1:38.9

By the way, before we, before I continue, sorry, John and Merlin on the last episode of Reconcilable Differences did, in the, in the member

1:47.8

exclusive bonus content, did an incredible segment on homework.

1:53.9

That's true.

1:54.7

And I can, like, I found it incredibly therapeutic and incredibly good because homework when I was going through

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