5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2011
⏱️ 72 minutes
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John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk about the death of Steve Jobs: personal remembrances, the less-obvious lessons of his life, and the dangers of his deification. Also, misspeaking vs. failing to communicate, Star Wars blu-rays, and John's attempt to politely decline charity.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Hypercritical, a weekly talk show |
| 0:05.4 | reminating on exactly what is wrong in the world of Apple and |
| 0:08.0 | related technologies and businesses. |
| 0:09.8 | Nothing is so perfect that it can't be complained about by the host of this show |
| 0:14.7 | John Syracuse. I'm the co-host Dan Benjamin. This is episode number 37. Today is |
| 0:20.8 | October 7th, 2011 and we would like to briefly mention our sponsors before we tell you more about them later. |
| 0:28.0 | The first sponsor is MailChimp.com. |
| 0:31.0 | The second sponsor is a new one, Square Space. |
| 0:33.5 | dot com. |
| 0:34.8 | And we will tell you more about them later. |
| 0:36.6 | Hi, John, how are you? |
| 0:39.3 | Okay. |
| 0:40.6 | Sad week. It's a sad, very sad week. |
| 0:42.5 | a very sad week. |
| 0:43.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:45.0 | I think that's what we're going to talk about. |
| 0:48.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:49.0 | Because even before follow-up, Breaking in the format. |
| 0:54.0 | Probably is a good occasion to break with the format. |
| 0:56.0 | Yeah, because the follow-up tends to be kind of flip and this is not flip. |
| 1:00.0 | So, right. |
| 1:01.0 | So we'll do this first. |
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