It’s Brett’s 46th birthday bash, and he’s celebrating in style with Jeff and Christina. Expect gifts like Cooks Illustrated and flood detectors, riveting overflowing toilet tales, and sampling fun with Koala. Dive into comedy insights with an ‘Elf’ story featuring James Caan, and honor Bob Newhart’s 1961 Grammy win. Plus, a TUAW domain kerfuffle and Macstock marvels. Laugh, learn, and maybe even fix your toilet seat!

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Chapters

00:00 Introduction and Birthday Celebrations

00:43 Gifts and Subscriptions

02:37 Home Improvement and Plumbing Stories

03:53 The Best Toilet Seat Ever

05:52 Plumbing Mishaps and Family History

11:10 Birthday Party Plans

13:40 CrowdStrike Incident

19:09 Sponsor: 1Password

21:20 Sponsor bonus content

27:33 Reviving TUAW: A Controversial Story

33:59 AI Articles and Identity Theft

35:08 The Resurrection of Old Content

35:48 Reflecting on Past Work

37:40 The Sale of Content Rights

44:50 Macstock Reunion

50:09 GrAPPtitude: App Recommendations

01:04:38 Remembering Bob Newhart

Show Links

Best toilet seat ever

Major Windows BSOD issue hits banks, airlines, and TV broadcasters - The Verge

A Beloved Tech Blog Is Now Publishing AI Articles Under the Names of Its Old Human Staff (404media.co)

Early Apple tech bloggers are shocked to find their name and work have been AI-zombified - The Verge

Apple blog TUAW returns as an AI content farm (engadget.com)

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Transcript

Jammin' on the One

[00:00:00] Introduction and Birthday Celebrations

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[00:00:03] Brett: Hey, happy birthday. It’s my birthday. It’s Overtired. Um, we’re all here this week. It’s Jeff Severance Gunsel, Christina Warren, and myself, Brett Terpstra. Uh, how are you guys?

[00:00:16] Christina: Not too bad. Go on, go on, Jeff. Yeah, exactly. I was gonna say pretty birth I was gonna say happy birthday. I was like, not as good as you, birthday boy, but you know,

[00:00:24] Brett: I’m 46 today

[00:00:26] Jeff: Forty six.

[00:00:28] Brett: I’m not lying about my age like some people do. Um,

[00:00:33] Christina: It might be, it might be your birthday, but I’ll still tell you to fuck off. I can lie about my age as long as I want.

[00:00:37] Brett: I wasn’t singling you out. I just said some people.

[00:00:41] Jeff: Some people.

[00:00:43] Christina: Some

[00:00:43] Gifts and Subscriptions

[00:00:43] Brett: Um, yeah, I, uh, I’ve had a really good birthday. Elle, Elle knows how much I love getting gifts and I’m too old for most people to give me so they take it upon themselves to shower me. With gifts every year. [00:01:00] Um, and this year they got me a bunch of cool stuff, including a subscription to Cooks Illustrated and, uh, the book Vegetables Illustrated from Cooks Illustrated, which I’m very excited.

[00:01:11] Jeff: Print subscription? What a beautiful is this still beautiful? It’s been a long time. I don’t know if it got eaten by okay,

[00:01:17] Brett: I was picking them up at the co-op and just like, well actually, uh, one of the, one of the families that EL was house sitting for had them laying out. And I had forgotten how much I loved that magazine. Even like,