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The Talk Show With John Gruber

85: ‘Oh Man, Soccer’ With Paul Kafasis

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2014

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

Topics include the ongoing World Cup and the sport of soccer, Google Glass, mockups of devices in rumor reports, Amazon's Fire Phone, the New York Times's profile of Tim Cook last week, Apple's growth, and the agonizingly slow death of Blackberry. Lastly, Paul brings up a devilishly tricky question regarding whether Apple will support a particular new addition to the Emoji specification.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Do you have that too? Don't you have that? Am I making this up that you've got your second

0:04.7

toe sticks up further than your big toe? No, I always called that a freak toe when I was

0:08.4

little.

0:09.9

Supposedly it means you're going to be financially well off when you get older.

0:14.4

I actually looked it up years ago and I think that's like genetically the more common one.

0:20.4

So having it not be that way is actually the freakish way but it still looks weird to

0:24.0

me. Like you don't ever draw a foot that way. No, you would never draw a foot that way.

0:28.7

But I remember that the tips of my second and third toes would be just blistered the

0:34.8

hell. And so I would get up earlier or I would skip breakfast and go to the trainer.

0:41.2

It would be an pro athlete. It was a good professional. It was a Kutztown University

0:45.8

in Pennsylvania. And you could go to the trainer and there was a real college athletic trainer

0:50.5

and he would take razor blades to your blisters and do them right.

1:00.7

Is that the treatment? I mean, I wouldn't recommend doing it yourself. It seems like it was

1:07.4

like a fine line between cutting off too much of the skin and too little but it hurt like

1:12.0

hell in the morning. It would just feel like I can't. It was terrible. It couldn't even

1:16.6

walk. But then after a while it just sort of, you know, you just get numb to the pain

1:21.1

and then you just play. All right. Never much for summer camp. We used to have a playground.

1:27.6

Like a local playground would run high school kids to supervise from like nine to noon

1:34.8

in the morning. And it would be like supervised kickball games and box hockey and arts and

1:41.2

crafts. It was painly insurance on that. I don't I think it was it was like a

1:47.5

you know, this would be like the very late 70s and early 80s. I think it was a holdout

1:51.4

from a smaller, simpler America. I was just going to say it's a simpler time, right?

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