Hello, hey, Marlin. How are you? I'm good. How are you doing? I'm doing very well. Good.

How's your afternoon? Fine. It's going good.

I'm reporting live from Apple's new campus.

Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs Theater. No, I should really say I'm reporting from very near the new campus.

I don't know if you've had a chance to review the videos. Beautiful, beautiful videos.

People are not allowed on the campus. Just in the theater part or the theater part, you're allowed

to come in as long as you're taking a photo of the theater to put on Instagram. The office buildings.

It has been determined at a high white level that people would detract from the naturalistic surroundings and the 9,000 trees.

So people will not be allowed in the building. I see. Did that seem weird at all? Am I wrong? No. It's like those minimalist desk photos.

Yeah. Where are the no people in the, even just for scale? I don't think there was a single person in any of those shots of the new building. It's weird.

They could put a cardboard cut out of a console or something. Put the black widow in there. Yes. Exactly.

I don't know. I get it. I mean, I guess it's just, it's strange. It just, it's not a weird tone to me. I think it's weird. It's a weird event.

It felt weird. Well, you watch the event. Yes. We rescheduled our recording studio to our special live breaking coverage. That's right.

Because you won't get a lot of that today. I thought it was weird. I don't know. I was weird. Well, I mean, Apple is a weird company.

If something felt weird about it, like what? I don't, you know, the thing is, I don't know how much of this I can write down to the fact that there was a big leak.

Late last week and a lot of the stuff that they were announcing was out there. You can't discount what that.

That does to your impression of the big event, but I don't know. I don't know. I mean, the stuff about Steve was nice.

I hope we're about done with all that. Yeah. I think we can be. I mean, you know, yeah, he had a big deal.

And obviously Tim, it was, you know, a lot of people were, you know, very moved by that. It was, it was nice. But like, my God, it's really, I don't know.

I don't know. I thought it was weird. I thought it was weird. I think, I think the fetishization of that building is odd.

I get that it's a big deal. We did a whole episode of another podcast that you, not a whole episode, part of an episode talking about this. But I don't know. I just, I think it's, I think it's strange.

The extent to which Apple's aesthetic relies on having a minimal number of human beings in it, except where it's necessary in order to demo the device.

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