The Talk Show With John Gruber
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The director’s commentary track for Daring Fireball. Long digressions on Apple, technology, design, movies, and more.
Location:
Austin, TX
Description:
The director’s commentary track for Daring Fireball. Long digressions on Apple, technology, design, movies, and more.
Language:
English
Episodes
426: ‘The Cutting Edge Latest Supermodel’, With David Smith
6/30/2025
Special guest David Smith returns to the show for a developer's perspective look at WWDC 2025.
Duration:02:12:15
425: ‘Through the Wall Like Kool-Aid Man’, With Chance Miller
6/26/2025
Chance Miller returns to the show to discuss the news and announcements from WWDC 2025.
Duration:01:44:02
424: ‘Live From WWDC 2025’, With Joanna Stern and Nilay Patel
6/14/2025
Recorded in front of a live audience at The California Theatre in San Jose Tuesday evening, special guests Joanna Stern and Nilay Patel join me to discuss Apple’s announcements at WWDC 2025.
Duration:02:06:04
423: ‘Sewing Machine Repair Shop’, With Patrick McGee
5/29/2025
Patrick McGee joins the show to discuss his must-read new book, *Apple in China* -- one of the best books about Apple anyone has ever written.
Duration:01:32:42
422: ‘A Monkey on a Rock’, With Stephen Hackett
5/26/2025
Stephen Hackett, proprietor of 512 Pixels and co-founder of Relay (purveyor of many fine podcasts), joins the show. Topics include: IO (or if you will, io), the new joint venture of OpenAI and Jony Ive’s LoveFrom; the sheer fantasy of “Made in America” iPhones; and Fortnite’s return to the US App Store.
Duration:02:14:46
421: ‘The Ratchet of Flippancy’, With Craig Mod
4/30/2025
Craig Mod returns to the show to discuss his splendid new book, *Things Become Other Things*. Other topics include creating with AI tools (including programming), social media permanence vs. ephemerality, and more.
Duration:01:53:11
420: ‘The Best Hatched Plan’, With Glenn Fleishman
4/20/2025
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”.
Duration:02:08:24
419: ‘Podcasting Technology Cadence’, With MG Siegler
3/23/2025
MG Siegler returns to the show to talk about the drama surrounding Siri and Apple Intelligence.
Duration:02:28:58
418: ‘Putting a Stink on the Letter X’, With Craig Hockenberry
3/8/2025
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.
Duration:02:42:03
417: ‘Nothing Is Possible’, With Paul Kafasis
2/24/2025
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.
Duration:02:00:43
416: ‘A Professional Internet User’, With Vlad Prelovac
12/24/2024
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.
Duration:02:32:38
415: ‘A Good Duck Butt’, With Allen Pike
12/2/2024
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.
Duration:02:32:52
414: ‘Annoying Friendliness’, With Joanna Stern
11/18/2024
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.
Duration:01:54:06
413: ‘Holiday Party 2024’, With Merlin Mann
11/9/2024
This again. Once more, let's talk *around* another election, and try, by doing so, to maybe express something *about* it.
Duration:02:52:16
412: ‘His Most Pro Shirt’, With Dan Moren
10/31/2024
Dan Moren returns to the show to discuss this week’s introductions of the first M4 Macs: iMac, Mac Mini, and MacBook Pros.
Duration:01:41:42
411: ‘An Acoustic Nightmare’, With Tyler Stalman
10/7/2024
Tyler Stalman joins the show to discuss the iPhone 16 lineup’s cameras, and the state of iPhone photography.
Duration:01:53:03
410: ‘Shipping vs. Shipping’, With Jason Snell
9/30/2024
Jason Snell returns to the show to discuss Apple's September product announcements, and Meta's Orion prototype AR glasses.
Duration:02:12:58
409: ‘The Dynamic Paradox’, With Nilay Patel
9/26/2024
Nilay Patel returns to the show to consider the iPhones 16.
Duration:02:43:09
408: ‘Good Enough to Be Pesky’, With Taegan Goddard
8/31/2024
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.
Duration:01:40:45
407: ‘Pinkie Swear’, With Chance Miller
8/28/2024
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.
Duration:02:18:11