The Thing Is
Anywhere between 2 to 4 ex-Apple Store Geniuses shooting the breeze.
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 54 minutes
- Episodes
- 79
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2021
God’s Got a Lot of People Trying to Impress Him; You Gotta Stand Out Somehow
Talking about the Panic Playdate, lawn maintenance, and pinning money to one's shirt on a birthday
The Secret Campus Where They Do Their Hardware Horseshit
Apple, Vegas, Margaritas, and Siri
Cybernetic Mesh
A lot of Apple, just a little mayonnaise, Vegas, parenting, and more mayonnaise.
Force Quitting Apps is Connected to Nazis
Elevators, New York City, the plague of force quitting apps, bedbugs, and TV commercials
Horribly Monotonous, Boring Stuff
iOS apps moving to the Mac, Apple's new services, and Stevie's podcast habits. Colin's reverse pick: Pet Semetary Stevies picks: Do By Friday and Roderick on the Line
Pump It Out of the Hole Instead of Shoveling It
Bees, Eyes, Scripting, old iPads, new Mac Pros, and holes, both shit- and black-
Super Volcanoes Don't Give a Sh*t
Mike, Stephen, and Colin talk about jobs, Macs, Macs at jobs, Macs at schools, dads and iPads, software update and Apple Music gripes, nuclear annihilation segueing very abruptly into talk about a $…
Deep and Nerdy
In a real change of content, Colin joins Mike and Stevie and they talk about having a podcast, what little Mike knows about allergy shots, doctors and the relationships with them, the Sentinelese, ve…
More Chaotic and Less Controlled
Apple ID passwords, complaints about the new iPad Pro, Stevie goes really deep on some smart HDMI switch, AppleTV vs. Roku, right to repair advocation.
Don't Be a Fool!
Stevie’s new watch, details of semiconductor design, sleep tracking, waking up, Stevie’s iPad situation and general financial responsibility, Stevie’s mass storage addiction, AirPod battery life (dir…
I'm Freaking Out Right Now!
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 th…
Hottest Take Yet!
iPhone X, phone cases in general, Mac and iPad predictions for Tuesday’s event.
Recommendations:
Stephen: Hunger Games movies
Mike: Good Eats: Reloaded (TV)
I Insisted
Bootleg watch faces, Stevie’s watch order, Adobe pricing, quitting Amazon Prime, AirPods’ dirty little secret, Apple Store fraud, and phone sizes.
Spoilers Wasn't Even a Concept
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…
If It's Got a Hole in it I will Recommend It
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: …
Pepsi Maxx!
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…
On My Way to Go Swim in the Gold
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: Fo…
You Missed One
Twitter, iPad predictions, 3D/Force touch, and home theater setups.
Recommendations:
Mike- Halloumi (cheese)
Stevie: Interstellar (movie)
They Should Fix the Website
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…
It's All Tupperware
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, Mi…