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The Talk Show With John Gruber
The Talk Show With John Gruber
Daring Fireball / John Gruber

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

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Episodes

414: ‘Annoying Friendliness’, With Joanna Stern

Joanna Stern returns to the show to talk about our new best friends, AI chatbots, and I chime in with... more

19 Nov 2024 · 1 hour, 54 minutes
413: ‘Holiday Party 2024’, With Merlin Mann

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

09 Nov 2024 · 2 hours, 52 minutes
412: ‘His Most Pro Shirt’, With Dan Moren

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

01 Nov 2024 · 1 hour, 41 minutes
411: ‘An Acoustic Nightmare’, With Tyler Stalman

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

08 Oct 2024 · 1 hour, 53 minutes
410: ‘Shipping vs. Shipping’, With Jason Snell

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

01 Oct 2024 · 2 hours, 12 minutes
409: ‘The Dynamic Paradox’, With Nilay Patel

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

26 Sep 2024 · 2 hours, 43 minutes
408: ‘Good Enough to Be Pesky’, With Taegan Goddard

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

01 Sep 2024 · 1 hour, 40 minutes
407: ‘Pinkie Swear’, With Chance Miller

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

29 Aug 2024 · 2 hours, 18 minutes
406: ‘Hock TUAW’, With Christina Warren

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... more

01 Aug 2024 · 1 hour, 43 minutes
405: ‘Chutes and Ladders’, With Hunter Hillegas

Special guest Hunter Hillegas, author of the excellent Vegas Mate app, joins the show to discuss euphemistic emoji, the CrowdStrike... more

28 Jul 2024 · 1 hour, 56 minutes
404: ‘Curiously Short Episodes’, With John Moltz

John Moltz returns to the show for a holiday-week look at the best of recent prestige streaming content, particularly Apple... more

01 Jul 2024 · 1 hour, 17 minutes
403: ‘150 Million Calculator Apps’, With Quinn Nelson

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... more

27 Jun 2024 · 2 hours, 34 minutes
402: ‘Live From WWDC 2024’, With John Giannandrea, Craig Federighi, and Greg Joswiak

Recorded in front of a live (and lively) audience at The California Theatre in San Jose Tuesday evening, special guests... more

12 Jun 2024 · 2 hours, 3 minutes
401: ‘Chockdingus’, With Craig Hockenberry

Craig Hockenberry returns to the show. Topics include the upcoming Daylight DC-1 monochrome “e-paper” tablet, more thoughts on the new... more

01 Jun 2024 · 2 hours, 21 minutes
400: ‘Canadian Girlfriend Vibes’, With M.G. Siegler

Special guest M.G. Siegler returns to the show to talk about the new iPad Pros, the iPadOS/MacOS functional gulf, the... more

25 May 2024 · 2 hours, 27 minutes
399: ‘I Decapitated the MacBook Air’, With Federico Viticci

Federico Viticci returns to the show to discuss MacStories’s 15th anniversary, Apple’s upcoming “Let Loose” keynote for new iPad hardware,... more

30 Apr 2024 · 2 hours, 27 minutes
398: ‘You’ve Never Seen Email Like This Before’, With John Moltz

The one and only John Moltz returns to the show to talk about the relative dearth of original content for... more

31 Mar 2024 · 1 hour, 33 minutes
397: ‘Less Space Than a Nomad? Lame’, With Jason Snell

Jason Snell returns to the show to talk about the DOJ’s antitrust lawsuit against Apple. And sports gambling.

27 Mar 2024 · 3 hours, 28 minutes
396: ‘The Essence of Stealing’, With David Barnard

Special guest David Barnard joins the show. Topics include the App Store — past, present, and post-DMA future — and the excellent new update... more

01 Mar 2024 · 3 hours, 38 minutes
395: ‘I’m a Real-World Man’, With Adam Lisagor

Adam Lisagor returns to the show to discuss, while wearing, Apple Vision Pro.

13 Feb 2024 · 2 hours, 17 minutes
394: ‘An Impossible Balcony’, With Matthew Panzarino

Matthew Panzarino -- proprietor of the excellent new website/newsletter [The Obsessor](https://www.theobsessor.com/) -- returns to the show to talk about --... more

01 Feb 2024 · 2 hours, 23 minutes
393: ‘An Asterisk on the Bento Box’, With Marco Arment

Marco Arment returns to the show. Topics include the Apple-Masimo patent dispute over Apple Watch blood oxygen sensors, the new... more

25 Jan 2024 · 3 hours, 9 minutes
392: ‘Halos and Harps’, With Casey Liss

Apple’s 2023 year in review, with Casey Liss.

01 Jan 2024 · 3 hours, 12 minutes
391: ‘Error -37’, With John Siracusa

Special holiday guest: John Siracusa. Special holiday topics: the Apple/Masimo patent dispute over the blood oxygen sensors in Apple Watches,... more

24 Dec 2023 · 2 hours, 43 minutes
390: ‘The Blurry Edge of Acceptable’, With Nilay Patel

Nilay Patel returns to the show. Topics include the iPhones 15, journalism in the age of AI, and what it’s... more

01 Dec 2023 · 2 hours, 2 minutes
389: ‘Two-Legged Stool’, With Gabe Rivera

Special guest Gabe Rivera, founder of the indispensable news aggregator Techmeme, joins the show to talk about the state of... more

22 Nov 2023 · 2 hours, 2 minutes
388: ‘What the Actual’, With Christina Warren

Christina Warren joins the show to talk about Apple’s “Scary Fast” event, introducing the new M3 MacBook Pros and 24-inch... more

31 Oct 2023 · 2 hours, 11 minutes
387: ‘Are There Ever Too Many Love Songs?’, With Sebastiaan de With and Ben Sandofsky

Special guests Sebastiaan de With and Ben Sandofsky, co-founders of Lux, join the show to talk about their apps (Halide,... more

28 Oct 2023 · 2 hours, 2 minutes
386: ‘Gate Number Two’, With John Moltz

Special guest John Moltz joins the show to discuss the various iPhone 15 “-gates”, rumors of Jony Ive working with... more

01 Oct 2023 · 1 hour, 30 minutes
385: ‘Who’s Heef?’, With Matthew Panzarino

Matthew Panzarino returns to the show to talk about the new iPhones 15.

28 Sep 2023 · 2 hours, 12 minutes
384: ‘Pleading the Fifth’, With Michael Simmons

Flexibits co-founder Michael Simmons returns to the show to talk about his experience at Apple’s developer lab for Vision Pro,... more

01 Sep 2023 · 1 hour, 18 minutes
383: ‘A Photocopy of a Fax’, With Jason Snell

Jason Snell, come on down. You’re the next contestent on The Talk Show. Special topics: John Warnock and Adobe, Disney... more

30 Aug 2023 · 2 hours, 46 minutes
382: ‘What’s Happening‽’, With Craig Hockenberry

Craig Hockenberry, the special guest with the special fleshy palms, returns to the show. Topics include Twitter/X, foldable phones, and... more

01 Aug 2023 · 1 hour, 39 minutes
381: ‘Tape Deck Dongle’, With Joanna Stern

Joanna Stern returns to the show. Topics include the launch of Threads, Apple’s Vision Pro, and iPhone/iCloud device security. Also,... more

12 Jul 2023 · 1 hour, 55 minutes
380: ‘The M Is for Magnificent’, With Matthew Panzarino

Matthew Panzarino returns to the show for a post-WWDC discussion about Vision Pro and VisionOS.

30 Jun 2023 · 2 hours, 4 minutes
379: ‘An Extra Kick in the Nuts’, With Christian Selig

Christian Selig, developer of the excellent apps Apollo and Pixel Pals, joins the show to talk about Reddit's Twitter-fication, along... more

17 Jun 2023 · 1 hour, 55 minutes
378: ‘Live From WWDC 2023’, With John Ternus, Mike Rockwell, Craig Federighi, and Greg Joswiak

Back in San Jose's historic California Theatre for the first time since 2019, special guests John Ternus, Mike Rockwell, Craig... more

08 Jun 2023 · 1 hour, 59 minutes
377: ‘guyenglish.zip’, With Guy English

Guy English returns to the show to talk about the live show from WWDC, Mac Pros past and future, Marathon... more

01 Jun 2023 · 1 hour, 58 minutes
376: ‘One True HIG’, With Neil Jhaveri

Neil Jhaveri, founder and lead developer of Mimestream, the terrific new native Mac email client for Gmail, joins the show... more

29 May 2023 · 1 hour, 43 minutes
375: ‘No False Humidity’, With Jason Snell

Special guest: Jason Snell. Topics: Headset, headseat, headset. And no baseball talk other than how games might look in VR.... more

23 May 2023 · 2 hours, 11 minutes
374: ‘The Paul McCartney of Car Salesmen’, With John Moltz

John Moltz, ace reporter from The Daily Planet, returns to the show. Topics include Apple pushing ads through its own... more

01 May 2023 · 1 hour, 48 minutes
373: ‘This Guy Reads a Lot Better’, With Quinn Nelson

Special guest Quinn Nelson joins the show to talk about Apple’s rumored AR/VR headset, Apple silicon, and more.

26 Apr 2023 · 1 hour, 53 minutes
372: ‘$8 Billion in Late Fees’, With Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie returns to the show to discuss generative AI (and what Apple might soon do with it), iPhone passcodes... more

22 Apr 2023 · 1 hour, 38 minutes
371: ‘The Skin of Your Pants’, With Daniel Jalkut

Daniel Jalkut returns to the show to talk about AI chat, new emoji, and Apple Music Classical.

01 Apr 2023 · 2 hours, 22 minutes
370: ‘Fine Hypertext Products’, With Jason Kottke

Jason Kottke returns to the show to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Kottke.org.

12 Mar 2023 · 3 hours, 12 minutes
369: ‘18-Hour Bombing Mission’, With Marco Arment

Marco Arment returns to the show to discuss some genuinely startling revelations regarding iPhone and Apple ID security; the new... more

01 Mar 2023 · 3 hours, 11 minutes
368: ‘Tweeter and the Monkey Man’, With Dan Moren

Special guest Dan Moren joins the show to talk about the new M2 MacBook Pros and Mac Minis, the state... more

01 Feb 2023 · 1 hour, 40 minutes
367: ‘Slow-Moving Hurricane’, With Craig Hockenberry

Craig Hockenberry returns to the show to talk about the demise of third-party Twitter clients, the overall Twitter shitshow, touchscreens... more

20 Jan 2023 · 2 hours, 50 minutes
366: ‘Measure Seven Times, Cut Once’, With Glenn Fleishman

Glenn Fleishman returns to the show to talk about reported setbacks in Apple's silicon division, the LastPass vault leak and... more

31 Dec 2022 · 2 hours, 33 minutes
365: ‘Permanent September’, With Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie returns to the show to talk about recent news (Twitter, Freeform, iCloud Advanced Data Protection, the EU’s new... more

22 Dec 2022 · 2 hours, 45 minutes
364: ‘Spooky Hole’, With John Moltz

Friend of the show John Moltz returns to talk about Elon Musk steering Twitter into a multi-issue spat with Apple,... more

01 Dec 2022 · 2 hours, 21 minutes
363: ‘Deliberately Churned’, With Christina Warren

Christina Warren returns to the show to talk about the drama at Disney, tumult at Twitter, and how the hell... more

24 Nov 2022 · 2 hours, 15 minutes
362: ‘Grand Scale Foot-Shooting’, With Anil Dash

Special guest: Anil Dash. A little about last week’s U.S. midterm elections, and a lot about what’s going on at... more

19 Nov 2022 · 2 hours, 14 minutes
361: ‘A Fit of Pique’, With Federico Viticci

Federico Viticci returns to the show to talk about iPads, Stage Manager, and Apple’s ill-considered foray into expanding ads in... more

01 Nov 2022 · 2 hours, 29 minutes
360: ‘Neither Fish Nor Fowl’, With Jason Snell

Jason Snell returns to the show to talk about the new 10th-gen iPad and M2 iPads Pro.

25 Oct 2022 · 2 hours, 31 minutes
359: ‘Big Booger Came After You’, With Merlin Mann

Merlin Mann returns to the show to talk about AI image generation (along with a few asides).

13 Oct 2022 · 1 hour, 37 minutes
358: ‘Double-Digit Domains’, With Paul Kafasis

Paul Kafasis returns to the show to talk about the iPhone 14 Pro, Apple Watch Ultra, AirPods Pro, and Rogue... more

01 Oct 2022 · 2 hours, 30 minutes
357: ‘Fluent Cupertinoese’, With Nilay Patel

Nilay Patel returns to the show to talk about Apple’s “Far Out” event, the iPhones 14, and The Verge’s redesign.

21 Sep 2022 · 3 hours, 14 minutes
356: ‘An Unranted Rant’, With Rosemary Orchard

Special guest Rosemary Orchard joins the show to talk about her new book, “Take Control of Shortcuts”, and the state... more

01 Sep 2022 · 2 hours, 11 minutes
355: ‘The Creaturest of Habits’, With Daniel Jalkut

Daniel Jalkut returns to the show. Topics include a serious discussion about CSAM detection at major cloud storage providers and... more

26 Aug 2022 · 2 hours, 30 minutes
354: ‘Get Me to the Fainting Couch’, With John Moltz

Very special guest John Moltz returns to the show to talk about Center Stage, Stage Manager, and all the other... more

18 Aug 2022 · 2 hours, 30 minutes
353: ‘Shop Different’, With Michael Steeber

Special guest Michael Steeber joins the show to discuss his new project, The Apple Store Time Machine — an intricately-detailed explorable walkthrough... more

01 Aug 2022 · 2 hours, 4 minutes
352: ‘I’ve Kissed That Mouse’, With Marco Arment

Marco Arment returns to the show to talk about the new M2 MacBook Air and stuff.

26 Jul 2022 · 3 hours, 8 minutes
351: ‘Here You Go, Cheapskate’, With Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie returns to the show for more on Apple’s announcements from WWDC 2022, locking devices out of Face ID... more

01 Jul 2022 · 2 hours, 2 minutes
350: ‘Your Sack of Meat With Teeth’, With Jason Snell

Jason Snell returns to the show to discuss the biggest threads from WWDC 2022 — in particular, Stage Manager and the M2... more

28 Jun 2022 · 2 hours, 33 minutes
349: ‘Live From WWDC 2022’, With Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak

Special guests Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak join me to discuss the news from WWDC 2022, in front of a... more

07 Jun 2022 · 1 hour, 25 minutes
348: ‘Joe Biden’s Gum’’, With John Moltz

Very special guest: John Moltz. Very special topics: flat Apple Watches, USB-C iPhones, and more.

01 Jun 2022 · 1 hour, 20 minutes
347: ‘After Steve’, With Tripp Mickle

Special guest Tripp Mickle joins the show to talk about his new book, *After Steve*, reporting on the last decade... more

15 May 2022 · 2 hours, 6 minutes
346: ‘Like Neo Dodging Bullets’, With Zach Gage

Zach Gage joins the show to talk about game design and creativity, including his new game Knotwords.

09 May 2022 · 2 hours, 28 minutes
345: ‘A Fake Crank on the Web’, With Michael Simmons

Michael Simmons returns to the show to talk about the Studio Display's camera (and this week's beta firmware update to... more

01 May 2022 · 1 hour, 47 minutes
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Zach Gage joins the show to talk about game design and creativity, including his new game Knotwords.