75: You Had Your Moment
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2014
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-Show: John visits Six Flags
- Follow-up:
- Overcast week one update
- Server side vs. local feed crawling
- XML wonkiness
- UI Changes in 1.0.1
- What should the rewind and fast-forward buttons do in a podcast app?
- Episode 1 of the Debug Epic with Nitin Ganatra
- More on priority podcasts
- Sapphire iPhone 6
- Overcast week one update
- Apple & IBM Partner in the Enterprise
- Post-show:
- Keeping devices & sceens pristine
- Used cars, kids, dings, and knicks
- John criticizes recent showbot changes
- TV Talk
- Which Mike Judge creations are funnier than others
- Halt and Catch Fire
- Silicon Valley
- Veep
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | How was this six flags the other day? |
| 0:02.5 | Hot |
| 0:03.9 | Was it water or not water? I guess not water. We went to the water park |
| 0:07.8 | But I didn't go in the water part. I was the pack mule for the day |
| 0:10.8 | But I was carrying I was carrying the backpack with everyone's like you know |
| 0:15.3 | I'd to bring food in but like you know the water bottles that we filled in the park and all the possible bathing suits in towels for the water things |
| 0:22.9 | And which is fine like I was willing to be the pack mule |
| 0:25.4 | But like I'm too old to be spending seven hours just walking around on hot black asphalt |
| 0:31.1 | It wasn't like it was in the 90s, but it wasn't like super hot or super humid |
| 0:34.9 | But it doesn't matter. Just wears you down like I was hunting for shade |
| 0:37.8 | I was like there's a dumpster. That must be shade on one side of that dumpster |
| 0:40.4 | I mean crouching the shade while my kids wait on this you know two-hour line to go on a roller coaster |
| 0:45.5 | Now are you a oh no, you're not a roller coaster person because you get motion sick never mind |
| 0:49.6 | No roller coasters is I'm not a teacup person teacups are the worst ride in the entire amusement park because |
| 0:54.6 | That is repeated motion the puke your brains out right rollercoasters over 90 seconds |
| 0:58.9 | Doesn't matter what they can do to you 90 seconds. You're fine. So the shorter |
| 1:01.7 | So you do like roller coasters? |
| 1:03.1 | I don't like them in general because I feel like I've gone on I've experienced everything |
| 1:06.8 | There is to experience on a roller coaster from a thrill perspective and now the risk reward ratios way off because I don't want to go on these rides |
| 1:12.0 | Run by teenagers that were the risk of death and what is my reward? |
| 1:15.6 | Do have an experience that I've already had before like it's not anything new that is the most John answer I've ever heard |
| 1:20.9 | I feel like you need to slide that in the show somehow |
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