The Talk Show With John Gruber

The director’s commentary track for Daring Fireball. Long digressions on Apple, technology, design, movies, and more.

Episodes

420: ‘The Best Hatched Plan’, With Glenn Fleishman

April 20, 2025 • 128 mins

Special guest Glenn Fleishman returns to the show for episode 420 on 4/20, but everyone’s sober, I swear. Topics include Trump’s dumb tariffs and Glenn’s smart new edition of his book “Six Centuries of Type & Printing”.

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419: ‘Podcasting Technology Cadence’, With MG Siegler

March 23, 2025 • 148 mins

MG Siegler returns to the show to talk about the drama surrounding Siri and Apple Intelligence.

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418: ‘Putting a Stink on the Letter X’, With Craig Hockenberry

March 8, 2025 • 162 mins

Craig Hockenberry returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s new hardware this week — M3 iPad Airs, A16 regular iPads, M4 MacBook Airs, and the M4 Max and surprising M3 Ultra Mac Studios. And we go deep on The Iconfactory’s years-in-the-making new app, [Tapestry](https://usetapestry.com/) — a universal timeline for the Internet.

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417: ‘Nothing Is Possible’, With Paul Kafasis

February 24, 2025 • 120 mins

Special guest: Paul Kafasis. Special topics: Siri/Super Bowl nonsense, “Gulf of Mexico/America” nonsense, the iPhone 16e gets announced, and a veritable Bond villain buys the rights to the James Bond movie franchise.

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416: ‘A Professional Internet User’, With Vlad Prelovac

December 24, 2024 • 152 mins

Kagi founder and CEO Vlad Prelovac joins the show to talk about the business of web search, the thinking behind Kagi’s own amazing search engine, and their upstart WebKit-based browser Orion.

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415: ‘A Good Duck Butt’, With Allen Pike

December 2, 2024 • 152 mins

Special guest Allen Pike joins the show to talk about the state of generative AI and how Apple Intelligence measures up (so far). Also: some speculation on Apple’s pending acquisition of the ever-difficult-to-pronounce Pixelmator.

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414: ‘Annoying Friendliness’, With Joanna Stern

November 18, 2024 • 114 mins

Joanna Stern returns to the show to talk about our new best friends, AI chatbots, and I chime in with how the Voight-Kampff test got it all wrong.

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413: ‘Holiday Party 2024’, With Merlin Mann

November 9, 2024 • 172 mins

This again. Jiminy. Well, once more, let's talk *around* another election, and try, by doing so, to maybe express something *about* it.

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412: ‘His Most Pro Shirt’, With Dan Moren

October 31, 2024 • 101 mins

Dan Moren returns to the show to discuss this week’s introductions of the first M4 Macs: iMac, Mac Mini, and MacBook Pros.

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411: ‘An Acoustic Nightmare’, With Tyler Stalman

October 7, 2024 • 113 mins

Tyler Stalman joins the show to discuss the iPhone 16 lineup’s cameras, and the state of iPhone photography.

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410: ‘Shipping vs. Shipping’, With Jason Snell

September 30, 2024 • 132 mins

Jason Snell returns to the show to discuss Apple's September product announcements, and Meta's Orion prototype AR glasses.

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409: ‘The Dynamic Paradox’, With Nilay Patel

September 26, 2024 • 163 mins

Nilay Patel returns to the show to consider the iPhones 16.

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408: ‘Good Enough to Be Pesky’, With Taegan Goddard

August 31, 2024 • 100 mins

Special guest Taegan Goddard, longtime writer and founder of Political Wire, joins the show to talk about the past, present, and future of independent media.

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407: ‘Pinkie Swear’, With Chance Miller

August 28, 2024 • 138 mins

Chance Miller, ace reporter (and editor-in-chief) for 9to5Mac, joins the show to talk about the latest changes to Apple's DMA compliance plans with iOS, expectations for the September Apple event, and more.

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406: ‘Hock TUAW’, With Christina Warren

July 31, 2024 • 103 mins

Christina Warren (a.k.a. “Mary Brown”) returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s new iOS 18.1 and MacOS 15.1 betas (featuring Apple Intelligence), a little reminiscing about Gil Amelio and Steve Jobs, and the bizarre saga of TUAW, resurrected as a zombie AI slopsite.

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405: ‘Chutes and Ladders’, With Hunter Hillegas

July 28, 2024 • 116 mins

Special guest Hunter Hillegas, author of the excellent Vegas Mate app, joins the show to discuss euphemistic emoji, the CrowdStrike fiasco, and the closing of the iconic Mirage resort in Las Vegas.

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404: ‘Curiously Short Episodes’, With John Moltz

June 30, 2024 • 77 mins

John Moltz returns to the show for a holiday-week look at the best of recent prestige streaming content, particularly Apple TV+. And, yes, a bit on the latest Apple/EU/DMA drama.

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403: ‘150 Million Calculator Apps’, With Quinn Nelson

June 26, 2024 • 154 mins

Quinn Nelson, renowned host of [Snazzy Labs](https://www.youtube.com/@snazzy), returns to the show to recap the highlights of WWDC: Apple Intelligence, platform updates, and the latest salvos from the EC regarding Apple’s compliance with the DMA.

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402: ‘Live From WWDC 2024’, With John Giannandrea, Craig Federighi, and Greg Joswiak

June 11, 2024 • 123 mins

Recorded in front of a live (and lively) audience at The California Theatre in San Jose Tuesday evening, special guests John Giannandrea, Craig Federighi, and Greg Joswiak join me to discuss Apple’s announcements at WWDC 2024.

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401: ‘Chockdingus’, With Craig Hockenberry

May 31, 2024 • 141 mins

Craig Hockenberry returns to the show. Topics include the upcoming Daylight DC-1 monochrome “e-paper” tablet, more thoughts on the new iPad Pros, and what we expect/hope for from Apple at WWDC. Also: a one-button keyboard.

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