The Thing Is

New Macs Mini, Las Vegas, new MacBooks Air, no new Airpods, vintage Apple device repair, new iPads Pro: Will Stephen get one (hint: yes) & Mike blows open a (soon to be) giant scandal—the price of the iPad Pro 10.5", Lightning vs. USB-C, iPhone XR and battery life, pop socket fever!

iPhone X, phone cases in general, Mac and iPad predictions for Tuesday's event.

Recommendations:

Stephen: Hunger Games movies

Mike: Good Eats: Reloaded (TV)

Bootleg watch faces, Stevie's watch order, Adobe pricing, quitting Amazon Prime, AirPods' dirty little secret, Apple Store fraud, and phone sizes.

Talk about the idea of an Apple Watch series 4 and an iPhone XR, Stevie's new car(play),the Bloomberg weirdness and a brief touch on what's ruining America.

Recommendations:

Stevie: Sorry to Bother You (movie)

Mike: Teen Titans Go! To the Movies (movie)

Stevie: Solo (movie)

Lots of hotish takes on the iPhone XS, XS Max, XR, Apple Watch Series 4 and other tidbits from Apple's September 12th event.

Recommendations: Mike: Donut County (iOS game) and This is Not a Game: the Game (iOS game)

Stephen: nada

New iPhones, dumb names, new iPads, more new iPhones, that kind of customer/employee at the Apple Store this time of year, prices for new iPhones.

Recommendations:

Stephen: Ozark (Netflix)

Mike: The Good Place: Season 2 (Netflix)

Mike's long, boring story about troubleshooting a weird MacBook Air issue, 'laptop talk,' Stephen's broke watch, AirPower and Qi charging, underwater iPhone photography.

Recommendations:

Stephen: Forged in Fire (TV- Hulu)

Mike: Holedown (iOS app)

Twitter, iPad predictions, 3D/Force touch, and home theater setups.

Recommendations:

Mike- Halloumi (cheese)

Stevie: Interstellar (movie)

Reminiscing iPod, digging deep on models and prices of upcoming (unannounced) new iPhones, moms and bank websites.

Recommendations:

Mike: The Circle by Dave Eggers (book—not the movie!)

Stevie: Ready Player One (movie—not the book!)

Not the last update on Mike's busted MacBook Pro, legacy ports and things, AAPL earnings, the Apple-verse fringe; Twitter and the feedback loop, and old devices.

Recommendations: Stevie: Billions, Mike: Silicon Valley (again)