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Mac Power Users

818: "Recreational Math," with Dr. Drang

Mac Power Users

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Tech, Technology, David, User, Stephen Hackett, Sparks, How To, Help, Power, Workflow, Ios, Mac, Set Up

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2025

⏱️ 102 minutes

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Mac Power Users. My name is Stephen Hackett, and I'm joined by my friend and

0:08.5

yours, Mr. David Sparks. Hello, Stephen. How are you today, friend? I am good. It's starting to

0:16.2

feel like fall. We got a good episode. It's a pretty good day. Yeah. I moved my trees. You know,

0:23.5

every summer, I put all my little bonsai in a shady area of the yard because I don't want them to

0:29.0

die in the sun. And I, in an unbridled show of optimism over the weekend, I moved everything

0:34.8

out to the yard in their favorite places, and now they're getting more sun, and hopefully not going to get fried by the Southern California sun.

0:42.7

And to add to my joy, we're welcoming back to the show.

0:46.7

One of my favorite nerds, welcome back, Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr.ing.

0:49.9

Hey, it's good to be back.

0:51.9

Yeah, it is good to be back.

0:53.8

Every time you come on the show, we start out with me talking about how your photo in Zoom

1:00.8

terrifies me.

1:02.1

And you still have it.

1:03.4

I guess if you go back and listen to old shows, there's a whole story about the whole snowman.

1:07.6

But, man, you're still doing it to me.

1:09.7

I see.

1:10.3

Do you just add it every time you come in on the show, or is that your standard? That's my standard. It's not just for you, David. Okay. Well, I felt it was. I could zoom in on it and make it more terrifying, I suppose, if you want, just for you. Well, we've got a lot to catch on up on.

1:27.8

It's been a long time since you've been on the show.

1:29.1

But before we get started, how do we do with St. Jude, Stephen?

1:33.1

Yeah, it was really awesome month.

1:35.6

So we closed the campaign at $754,000, which is our third best ever, which is just incredible. Yeah, so thank you all who

1:48.7

donated, or if you did a community fundraiser, watch the podcastathon, however you were involved,

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