Hello and welcome to the Apple Insider podcast.

This is your host, Wesley Hilliard speaking.

And once again, I am joined by William Gallagher.

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You're going to get an ad-free show and then Apple Insider Plus at the end, which we're going to discuss, well, we brought it up on a previous Apple Insider Plus. So listeners, you'll already know about this one. What are your aspirational app or hardware purchases? And did you actually fulfill those aspirations? Did you buy an Apple pencil

and actually draw with it or maybe go diving with an Apple Watch Ultra? And, you know,

is it a bad thing to buy something with the intent to use it a certain way and then never get

around to it or, you know, are we just terrible nerds um we'll be talking about that in

the after show but william how are you feeling today uh wary suspicious um i did i used

google's notebook lm uh at the end of last week just after we recorded this and it created a podcast

out of what i told it to and it was was shockingly, shockingly believable, except it was so praising of us that it was just over the top.

We should play it out sometime instead of the real podcast, see what happens.

But other than that.

Yeah, those generated podcasts are always just awkward and unrealistic because humans don't talk to each other that way

I'm not really sure actually in this case there was one touch of realism because they gave it there was a male voice and female voice and the man was quite patronizing to the woman so you know that that's like a typical

podcast right there well because from what i've heard it's always like you wouldn't believe what

i've heard today oh please john tell me well if you didn't know this is and it's just and it's on

and on like that and it's really it's really bad but moving on um there's

there's a lot going on in the world but not really honestly like it's still a lot going on in the

world of apple and the u.s government and there's people you know suing and really this week newswise

even leaks just kind of quiet. So we're

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