The History of Hacking with Captain Crunch - The Retro Hour EP129
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
The Retro Hour
4.9 • 558 Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2018
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
We chat to legendary "phone phreaker" John Draper AKA Captain Crunch about hacking, the Homebrew Computer Club and how he helped Woz and Steve Jobs start Apple.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I can't believe it. |
| 0:03.5 | Max has asked me to move in with him. |
| 0:05.9 | I mean, you practically live with each other already, but that's great. |
| 0:09.8 | Did you hear that, Joe? |
| 0:11.5 | Yes, thanks for letting us know. |
| 0:14.3 | I see you've updated your universal credit claim. |
| 0:17.1 | Now you're going to be living together. |
| 0:21.3 | If you're telling other people about a change in your circumstances, |
| 0:25.4 | tell us too to avoid a penalty. |
| 0:27.8 | Search tell DWP. |
| 0:30.0 | Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast, episode number one to nine, |
| 0:34.1 | your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me, |
| 0:37.4 | Denwood, and me, Denwood. |
| 0:38.0 | And me, Ravi Abbott. |
| 0:39.1 | I've got to say how nice it is to be in this lovely air-condition studio tonight. |
| 0:43.3 | I've seen photos of the wild melting. |
| 0:46.2 | Have you seen pictures in Australia with the roads melting? |
| 0:49.3 | Even in Ireland, they had some of the tarmac going up. |
| 0:52.6 | It's been ridiculously warm. |
| 0:53.9 | And I mean, here in the UK, I think it's been around 30 degrees Celsius, which to people abroad might stand like, what you want about, you know, that's like our winter. Well, my fiance is from South America. She's kind of like, oh, the sun here is so intense. And I think it's, we've probably got a big ozone hole above us or something. And we don't have air conditioning in most of our house. |
| 1:11.6 | No, no. |
| 1:12.1 | So which is why it's nice to be in this cool studio this evening. |
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