Episode 057 — The User Experience
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Ben Thompson / James Allworth
4.6 • 832 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2015
⏱️ 73 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, James. |
| 0:00.7 | Ben, how are you? |
| 0:02.7 | I'm tired. |
| 0:05.3 | As you can hear, I'm sure I'm still traveling, so on the travel mic, as someone griped about last week. |
| 0:13.3 | But it's travel mic or nothing. |
| 0:16.9 | This person kind of implied that they wanted nothing the way they were complaining they |
| 0:21.2 | didn't really mean that but they really were having a whinge see a what is it W-H-I-N-G-E |
| 0:28.7 | yes I always thought that was just an alternate spelling of wine but you actually |
| 0:33.2 | pronounce it winch yeah a winch Is that not a word in America? |
| 0:38.0 | And that's different than wine, like W-H-I-N-E. |
| 0:40.5 | Yeah, like we say, winging and whining. |
| 0:43.6 | Huh. |
| 0:44.7 | Well, this has been the end of vocabulary for exponent listeners. |
| 0:48.6 | Yes, I keep running. |
| 0:50.5 | It's funny, I've been over here since 2008 and I still bump into words like that |
| 0:56.2 | that I just assume are exactly the same in Commonwealth English and in American English. And I |
| 1:03.1 | still, I mean, I learnt very early on that you don't want to call flip-flops thongs. Like, |
| 1:09.6 | that was one that I learned very early on. |
| 1:11.8 | I like your thorns. |
| 1:15.8 | This episode is sponsored by Wellfront. Wellfront is an automated investment service built |
| 1:20.6 | for the modern era, and it's making it easier than ever to invest your money well. How do they |
| 1:24.9 | do it? Well, they use software instead of retail location, |
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