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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Geek Memories of Steve Jobs

Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

Tech News, Technology, News, How To, Education

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2011

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Dave and John take a departure from their normal course today to share their memories of Steve Jobs and how he impacted their lives, both separately and together. While this is a Premium episode, John and Dave have decided to simply release it to all for anyone who wants to listen and join in.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Mac Geek Oh, uh, yeah. Thanks folks. It is the Mac Geek Cab Premium and it is Thursday. Did you say the 6 John? It is. It's October 6th. So we are here. We had this

0:38.1

show scheduled to record today and as I'm sure most of you know, but if you don't, please sit down.

0:48.2

Steve Jobs passed away last night. Not exactly a huge surprise given his health and the recent events

0:56.2

with his retirement and all of that. But with this show schedule we John and I talked about this a lot actually earlier today and it was do we not do a show it's it seemed

1:11.0

Simultaneously it seemed strange to just do a regular show and also maybe that that would actually be a great thing to do but but we decided that that we weren't quite ready to do a regular show today so we decided we would sit and in our own way reflect on a lot of the good that came into our lives and collectively, right? I mean we're a community here that came into our lives and collectively, right?

1:32.7

I mean, we're a community here.

1:34.6

That came into all of our lives.

1:36.9

You know, I have to, and I, there's one particular thing

1:40.7

that impacted both of us, John,

1:41.9

that I think would be a good place to start but I want to say that

1:45.3

When I found out about him passing away and I of course you know being what we do I found out about it very shortly after it was announced.

1:53.0

And the first thing that I did was,

1:54.8

I was in very much business mode.

1:56.4

It was similar to when he retired.

1:58.3

It was a shock of news, but it was, okay,

2:02.2

I need to call Brian because he was on, you know, on duty at

2:06.1

TMO and just make sure he knows so that he can, you know, write up his story and

2:09.7

we'd had an obituary prepared and that sort of thing.

2:13.0

And there's actually an interesting story behind that

2:16.0

and how it actually got deleted.

2:18.0

And we had to rewrite it.

2:19.0

Jeff actually rewrote it last night.

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