94: ‘Very Few Outhouses Anymore’ With Jason Snell

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

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🗓️ 8 September 2014

⏱️ 146 minutes

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Summary

Special guest Jason Snell joins the show on the cusp of Apple’s September 9 event, where the company will purportedly introduce two new iPhones and a breakthrough wearable device. Topics include the purpose and advantages of a 5.5-inch iPhone, why only the 5.5-inch iPhone will (I think) get an @3x retina display, speculation on the nature and purpose of an Apple wearable/watch, the intrigue surrounding the event’s venue, and more.

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0:00.0	Hello there
0:02.3	Hello, I
0:04.3	Was the Yankee game
0:07.8	It was
0:10.3	Emotional and then it was extraordinarily disappointing and because I was at the Yankee game today
0:16.0	I probably gonna sound like I've taken the chain smoking
0:22.0	Well, you know they they can set up the special events, but they can't usually can't fix the outcome
0:28.6	No, you know
0:31.6	I'm not gonna go all baseball
0:33.6	We've got tons and tons of nerd stuff to talk about, but you know it was bad that I don't even know why I haven't because it's funny
0:40.2	When you go to a game sometimes you don't you know and like the cell phone reception's bad because there's 48,000 people all trying to use the same network and
0:48.2	So I didn't follow the Twitter. I don't I didn't follow any of the Yankee beatwriters
0:51.8	I don't know what the explanation is but
0:54.5	The Yankees designated hitter today was Stephen Drew who was hitting
0:59.9	160 and has five home runs on the season
1:03.6	They like picked him out of like off waivers
1:07.1	Three weeks ago and they never pinch hit for me
1:09.8	They got to the end of the game. They had a man on first. They're down by two and Drew is up again
1:14.2	And there's nobody on the bench and this is after the the roster expansion
1:18.8	That's how that's how bad
1:20.8	Yeah, that reminds me as a
1:23.8	Fan of a nationally team this happens a lot when nationally teams again. Yes, we're talking about baseball
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