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Episode 175: The Transamerica Period

November 7th, 2018  |  1 hr 49 mins

"It's been said that iPads are the worst form of computing, except for all those other forms that have been tried." - Winston Chruchill, working at an Apple Store, probably.

This week: crawl spaces, elections, and Internet shoes for thirty somethings. 👟.

Episode 174: London BART

October 24th, 2018  |  1 hr 49 mins

Apologies for the two week absence but Carlos really wanted a fresh croissant. This week: travel business, baguette spotting, electric car pricing shenanigans, and Ryan goes about kid-proofing his light switches. 💡.

Episode 173: Sun Opulence

October 4th, 2018  |  1 hr 48 mins

If the past three decades have proven anything, it’s that new software solves every problem This week: diving into to OmniFocus 3, getting things done, and fractured attention as a service, FAaaS for short. 🤯.

Episode 172: Applesauce and Jeans

September 26th, 2018  |  2 hrs 10 mins

PITCH MEETING, Sand Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA: “we believe we’re strongly positioned to be the market leader for direct to consumer cute lil’ Apple Watch sleeping bags. We’ll give them quirky names like Jasper and Thimble, offer a home try-on, and we’ll be super passive aggressive to anyone that doesn’t sign up for our dumb newsletter and coupons.”

This week: talking microwaves, lox and schmear, some grade-A flip floppin’, and as a special bonus — an avocado toast recipe from a prolific Michelin-starred chef! 👨🏻‍🍳.

Episode 171: Hospital White

September 19th, 2018  |  2 hrs 20 secs

“imma let you finish but the lakers had one of the best sports dynasties of all time.” Not quite, but 1989 and 2014 share more in common than you might expect! This week: color temperature, Guy Fieri, an in-car navigation summer miracle, and iOS automation with our pal, British Siri. 🇬🇧.

Episode 170: Edition Cubed

September 12th, 2018  |  1 hr 37 mins

Like the Swallows back to Capistrano each year, as do the press to Cupertino every September. This week: Apple hits the clay with their new iPhone Tennis and Tennis Max, fall detection gets added to the Apple Watch just in time for PSL season, and Ryan does his best to argue a small uppercase “S” and a lowercase “s” are different things. 😑.

Episode 169: A Window Into My Phone

September 5th, 2018  |  1 hr 54 mins

Stumpgrades and cold brew, smart homes and scooters. This week: Ryan is tired of seeing those Uber ads while Carlos is watching Giants games just for that one Buster Posey commercial at Picco. 🛴.

Episode 168: Putting the Banana Back Together

August 29th, 2018  |  1 hr 47 mins

Grammarians and mobile payments aficionados, rejoice! There’s a little something for everyone in this [v good] episode.

This week: teaching your pup fetch using your busted eeros, the problematic tweets of a perennially problematic CEO, Amazon’s pie hands, and a supremely awkward comparison of musical taste. 🎧.

Episode 167: Sparkling Water Specialists

August 22nd, 2018  |  1 hr 42 mins

With Twitter and @jack struggling to make the hard choices about their platform, we play a round of everyone's favorite game: Incompetence, Ambivalence, or Willful Abdication of Responsibility!

This week: Pepsi ramps up adoption of Apple Pay, Tesla moves to integrate SodaStreams into the Model S, and Saul Goodman is installed as Uber's new CFO. Wait. I may have jumbled my notes. 🥤.

Episode 166: The Happy Episode

August 15th, 2018  |  1 hr 17 mins

After a month away for summer vacation, we’re back — and for one week and one week only, this is an all good news show. Join us to hear tales of marital bliss, calming Italian mountain roads, contactless transit payments, and the best canned cold brew you can find this side of The East Cut. 🥂.

Episode 165: Between the Trunk and Frunk

July 18th, 2018  |  1 hr 21 mins

And now the 2-2 pitch. A swing and a high drive to left. Runners back. It is out of here! A, uh, 107 meter home run for the Montreal Expos?

This week: Ryan bricks his electric car, the DOJ takes another swing at blocking the AT&T/Time Warner merger, and Apple drops a mid-cycle diss track for the MacBook Pro haters. It’s lit, fam. 🔥.

Episode 164: There's No Autopilot On My Mac

July 11th, 2018  |  1 hr 41 mins

Location, location, location. LeBron is leaving the dreary, post-RNC wasteland that is the city of Cleveland for the blue skies of Los Angeles, while the Apple Maps team works on charting out just how far it is from Cupertino to the Canadian province of Bublé-ton.

This week: taking your electric car down the California coast, Casper out-Caspers itself, and MoviePass looks for change in the theater seat cushions. ¡Dale! 😎.

Episode 163: A Bridge to Nowhere

June 27th, 2018  |  1 hr 42 mins

If a bipartisan coalition of legislators installed some Hue lights and a Nest in the Capitol building, would that be enough to make it a ‘Smart House’ … of Representatives? Ha. It’s funny because compromise is dead and we’re all so screwed.

This week: eight of nine Supreme Court justices make it through busy season, Carlos gets peer pressured into connecting his front door to the Internet, and Ryan says “I do” to Elon Musk. 🚗.

Episode 162: High End of the Low Tier

June 20th, 2018  |  1 hr 17 mins

Legend has it, the original WALL-E screenplay was actually about the development of the next generation Mac Pro but was scrapped when it didn’t test well with the pro workflows team. This week, we go to the movies and stack rank all the Pixar films.

Also: AMC pulls a MoviePass, ESPN’s AM radio aesthetic, and the donkey that couldn’t find its way out of the barn because it was too busy yelling at Maggie Haberman. 📽.

Episode 161: Big MUNI

June 13th, 2018  |  2 hrs 12 mins

Steal a pod on the road, steal a Doritos Locos Taco. This week: public/private pizza pothole partnerships, the return of Still or Sparkling, and a tale of two Amazon retail concepts.

Re: last week's absence. We were trying out App Limits and locked ourselves out of Skype. Whoops. 🤷‍♂️.

Episode 160: Hors d’oeuvre Singles

May 30th, 2018  |  1 hr 30 mins

Ryan has low expectations for WWDC, Carlos has low expectations of Disney, and Larry Bird has low expectations of scooter regulatory compliance. This week: Basketball Twitter®, grilled cheese, and assigning a special counsel to french fries. 🏀.