The Talk Show With John Gruber

331: ‘John Was the Problem’, With Merlin Mann

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Merlin Mann returns to the show to discuss two brief topics (with a few asides): my dream of opening a steakhouse, and Peter Jackson’s Beatles documentary Get Back.

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    • Links:

    • Who’s who in “Get Back”? A guide to the non-Beatles in Peter Jackson’s documentary.
      • “And Your Bird Can Sing” (Take 2) April 20, 1966.
    • Amazon.com: iSi Classic MeshSodamaker for Making Carbonating Beverages, 1 Quart, Stainless Steel: Industrial & Scientific.
    • American Giant.
      • Farhad Manjoo: “This Is The Greatest Hoodie Ever Made”.
    • YKK Zippers.
    • Bern’s Steak House in Tampa.
    • Jamie Zawinski.
      • DNA Lounge.
    • “Now you have two problems.”
    • The Sharper Image’s Bacon Express Toaster.
    • Helen Rosner in The New Yorker: “Pellet Ice Is the Good Ice”.
    • Hal’s New York Seltzer Water.
    • “What makes Ringo a Great Drummer”.
    • “World’s Great Drummers Salute Ringo Starr”.
    • ‎David Sims, Letterboxd one-sentence reviewer extraordinaire.
      • “Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle”.
    • “Free Solo”.
    • “A Quiet Place”.
    • RoboCop: Blank Check with Griffin & David.
    • Amanda Hess in the NYT: “The Sublime Spectacle of Yoko Ono Disrupting the Beatles”.
    • “Futura and Wes Anderson: A Love Story”.
    • Atkinson Hyperlegible — an accessibility typeface.
    • Hop Sing Laundromat:
      • Hop Sing on Twitter.
    • Lê on Twitter.
    • Rare photos from inside.

      • This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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