Zac and Andrew sit down with Executive Editor of The Verge Dieter Bohn to discuss crazy podcast setups, Mac customization, Apple’s awkward spot with the MBP keyboard, mixed feelings about Surface, why Dieter thinks Mac should have touch screens by now, why the future of input methods might be every input method, some discussion about AR, and we touch on all of the things should have discussed with Dieter instead!

The Menu Bar: Episode 20 - This Was a Huge Mistake, With Dieter Bohn

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Josh Centers is the managing editor of long running Apple blog TidBITS, and he joins Zac at the bar to discuss Apple’s recent iPad and MacBook event.

The Menu Bar: Episode 29 - People Seem To Be Liking iPads, With Josh Centers

Zac sits down with Ben Watkins AKA Juno Reactor to discuss what turns him on creatively, the delight of collaborating with The Wachowski Siblings on The Matrix sequels, our shared love of Barbarella, and his latest album ‘The Mutant Theater’

The Menu Bar: Episode 27 - The Mutant Theater, With Juno Reactor

We sit down with Micah Redding to discuss how each of us came to our individual belief structures, Micah’s attraction to Christian Transhumanism, institutional denial, the ever present need for deeper interpretation, ways Christianity agrees with the truth of Buddhism, how religion has been disrupted, and how cooperation and conversations can spring the cosmos to life.

The Menu Bar: Episode 25 - Religion Disrupted, With Micah Redding

Rob Sheridan visits the bar to discuss how he came to join Nine Inch Nails at 18, his creative kinship with Trent Reznor, finding happy accidents in doing things the wrong way, the inception and lasting impact of Year Zero, Trent and Rob’s role in architecting the Beats Music vision + insight into the Apple Music transition, his current comic book project 'High Level', and lot more.

The Menu Bar: Episode 24 - Beauty in Accidents, With Rob Sheridan

Zac and a slightly woozy Andrew meet and discuss acupuncture, being hugged by a dominatrix, pseudoscience, synchonicity and quantum physics, the pathology of extreme’s, the secret darkside of buddhism, and how we all use Twitter to escape.

The Menu Bar: Episode 20 - This Was a Huge Mistake, With Dieter Bohn

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