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Hypercritical

Episode 35: 35: Wrestling an Alligator

Hypercritical

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News, Apple, Ars Technica, Siracusa, Mac, Tech, Sci-fi, Geek, Tech News

4.92.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2011

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk about the Netflix/Qwikster debacle and the big picture in the TV and movie industries, then continue their exploration of the Windows 8 Metro user interface. The only way out is through!

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0:00.0

This is hypercritical, a weekly talk show ruminating on exactly what is wrong in the world of Apple and related technologies and businesses.

0:10.2

Nothing is so perfect that it cannot be utterly obliterated by my co-host

0:16.8

John Syracuse. I'm Dan Benjamin. This is episode number 35 and we'd like to say thanks to our two sponsors

0:24.4

HelpSpot.com and Iraqspace. We'll tell you more about them as we go on. We also

0:30.3

want to mention that bandwidth for this show is provided by Midas Green Tech virtual private servers

0:36.0

Submerged in oil

0:37.8

Get free bandwidth today at Midas Green Tech.com slash 5 by. How are you John Syracuse? You keep changing the tagline. It's

0:48.0

nothing is so perfect that it can't be complained about. The complaining aspect is

0:52.0

supposed to emphasize the pettiness and ridiculousness of, you know.

0:55.0

But you obliterate too.

0:57.0

No, that makes it sound like I'm taking down these things.

1:00.0

But you are.

1:01.0

But I am totally not. I am mostly just whining and complaining that's why the word

1:04.6

complaining is so essential in the tagline. Otherwise it sounds too earnest. No no I mean

1:09.9

you can do that occasionally as long as it's clear that what you're doing is further

1:15.8

compounding the ridiculousness of the statement but it's repeated show after show.

1:19.6

It's like that is that the tagline?

1:21.3

I've only listened to three episodes and they always say obliterated.

1:24.0

So you got to like, get to balance it.

1:25.7

Have I said obliterated ever before?

1:28.0

Oh, I don't know.

1:28.8

Lots of synonyms for that, but I think you have said obliterated a few times before.

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