Episode 089 — Move On from the 80s
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Ben Thompson / James Allworth
4.6 • 832 Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2016
⏱️ 63 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, James. |
| 0:00.8 | Ben, how are you? |
| 0:03.2 | Honestly, well, I have two, I have two problems, a near-term one and a short-term one or a short-term |
| 0:07.7 | one and a long-term one. |
| 0:08.4 | At least you don't have 99 problems. |
| 0:10.4 | Well, the short-term one is, thank you. |
| 0:14.1 | The short-term one is I was being very productive this morning. |
| 0:18.3 | I already went to Costco and bought a bunch of about a bunch of stuff. Very good. It is good. It's still pretty warm though in Taiwan. So as I |
| 0:25.8 | carried it into my, into my office here, I got a little, a little, you know, what's the word, sweaty. |
| 0:32.6 | And the problem, though, is I don't want to run the air conditioner while talking. We've discussed this before. So I had to quickly take a cold shower, so we're starting a little late. |
| 0:40.5 | So you had to take a cold shower before you got on the phone with me, huh? |
| 0:46.4 | Nice. |
| 0:47.4 | Yes, yes, something like that. |
| 0:50.3 | The long-term problem is that I'm honestly still recovering from trying to explain relational. |
| 0:56.0 | To be fair, I thought you did a pretty damn good job. |
| 1:02.6 | It is hard to take a complicated topic like that. |
| 1:05.7 | And it's for people who understand it, it's like it's intuitive. |
| 1:09.7 | But for people who have never heard of it |
| 1:11.1 | before, it's hard to take something like that and, and explain it in a way that a layperson |
| 1:15.7 | can understand it. I thought you did a good job. Well, thank you. We'll get to in just a moment. |
| 1:19.8 | First, we want to thank our presenting sponsor, presenting sponsor, which is MailChimp. |
| 1:25.4 | Yeah, yeah, well, our only sponsor. Yeah. |
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