Grab your tissues, it's our most guest filled episode ever.

We also discuss what Conduit is, what it means to us, and how it has affected our lives.

- Kathy ❌ - Journaling

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- Kathy - Journaling for real this time

Pre-Show: Getting emotional about 100 episodes

Shōgun gets another season, Match Game re-revived, binge behavior calculated, bonus content promoted, Netflix results parsed, Apple TV+ losses pondered, and our TV picks explained.

Josef Adalian

TV Picks:

Joe: The Studio (Apple TV+), Running Point (Netflix)

Jason: Andor (D+)

This week: Myke is learning, Federico saw a rumor, Stephen comes clean, and Apple launched a weird webpage.

"tvOS 18 introduces intelligent features like InSight, which displays timely information about actors, characters, and music from every live-action Apple TV+ movie and show onscreen in real time."

How sycophantic we want our chatbots to be, Google ending Nest support, what we've learned from Reddit recently, and whether developer conferences are still about developers.

Paul Kafasis and Florence Ion

It’s a very Pen Addict episode with LAMY, TWSBI, and Tactile Turn leading the new releases. And then we talk about tariffs, and how they are affecting us, and the industry we love. Oh boy!

Apple tiptoes a line between the U.S., China, and India, while Europe hits back with a big fine. Is the solution to the iPad's high-end malaise... the Mac menu bar? And for Google, no thermostat is forever.

YouTuber and podcaster Chris Lawley joins the show to talk to Stephen and David about how the Mac has replaced the iPad as his primary computer.

Chris Lawley

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Stop blaming the dog.

Things kick off with a second episode in which John has to force a context transition, then Merlin commiserates about how bad apps and institutions can be.

In Follow-Up, Merlin introduces both new data and new methodologies to Things It Took Me Too Long to Realize, and John shares yet another instance of erroneously blaming an animal for something bad happening.

Topic one seems like it'll be a topic about how an aging gentleman grooms, but then it ends up being about follicle madness, acceptance, and retaining the sort of friends who'll tell you when your fly is down.

Finally, John has a really good music topic that ends up going into feelings and the sublime subtleties of ardent fandom.

(Recorded on Tuesday, April 15, 2025)

Grey and Myke watch the 2010 biopic 'The Social Network'. They discuss their thoughts on the film, its portrayal of Facebook’s early days, and how it prompted them to reflect on their own use of social media today.

YouTube is almost old enough to drink, just in time for the sky to fall on Google Search.