You know how on NPR’s “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me”, you used to be able to win Carl Kasell recording your outgoing voicemail message? A modern day version of that except it’s Patrick Fabian. Make it happen, Eddy.
This week: Carlos gets uncharacteristically riled up about movie theaters, Ryan takes his Peloton to Geek Squad, and the Apple Cart gets upset.🎥.
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What major Hollywood event would you get by crossing a grouch with Cookie Monster? Oscar Noms.
That one’s for Reed. And Sal Saperstein.
This week: durable goods orders, George Stephanopoulos, and the Don Draper HBO Max meme comes full circle (this time in 4K). 📺.
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“You either retire an Angel or you live long enough to become the villain.” - Shohei Ohtani’s biographer, probably.
Nah, he rocks. But fr, the Dodgers suck and no amount of World Series rings can change that.
This week: Fixer Upper Marin, max contracts, and two middle aged dudes kinda sorta embrace AI. 💸.
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In an effort to juice sales, Apple is rumored to be reworking its in-store Vision Pro demo to swap out Encounter Dinosaurs for Immersive LeBron.
This week: cookie dunking with Pauly H., first class luggage warranties at coach prices, and Ryan tries and fails to pick Ira Glass out of a police lineup.🎙️.
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“You might not like it now but one day when you’re older, you’ll thank me for this.” Rivian’s CEO, probably.
This week: extreme couponing with premium travel cards, Roundball Rock’s return, and the nothingburger-est wearables update there ever was. 💦.
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While the San Francisco ‘doom loop’ was never real, we stan and co-sign the ‘boom loop’ comeback story. It’s the 2012 Giants but with Waymos humming in the background.
This week: peanut butter creme (not cream, per legal), pumpkin spice Apple hardware, and SCDP tries to win the Heinz light switch account. 🫘.
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Get in loser, we’re driving down to the 280 to go watch an extended iPhone ad in Cupertino.
This week: Timmy C., the other Timmy C., and Carlos got an electric car. Zoom zoom. 🏎️.
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Not trying to Matt Levine you here, but the modern American economy can be perfectly explained in two stories: Taylor Swift’s engagement and the new Reese’s Oreo.
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This week: bangin’ sound on your next Alaska flight, the tragedy of Roomba, and televised sports. 🥌.
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Wait wait, Eddy Cue prints out his calendar like they’re MapQuest directions in 1999? Are we getting this right?
This week: hypebeast coffee pop-ups, electric cars, and Wemo is Nomo.💡.
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Despite David Z.’s best efforts, we’re still solidly in a golden age of TV. Your favorite “famously sparkling” pod has fresh recs and picks just for you.
This week: Big Bird auditions for the “Die Another Day” remake, Etsy copyright infringement, and a ProPublica style exposé of the Target App. 🎯.
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Bears hibernate for the winter, sometimes podcasts hibernate for the spring. What’d we miss?
This week: escape room Google Sheets, demo day for real this time, and a quick check in with everyone’s favorite increasingly problematically monopolistic fruit company. 🪚.
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Every year we think we’ve hit ‘peak tenuously-linked brand integration’ and year after year we’re shown that no, there’s no lemon that a David Zaz-type won’t try to squeeze into a diamond.
This week: dank memes, TV for boomers, and asking Alexa+ to pour one out for Skype. 📺.
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At this point, we’re like eighteen months away from the Property Brothers having their own cereal. Honestly it’s been a slippery slope ever since Reese’s Puffs.
This week: TCL’s bush league OLED fear-mongering, Detroit style cookware, and the predictable end of the fast casual city challenge. 🌁.
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This Sonos shakeup is the biggest corporate drama to hit the Santa Barbara area since the Silvergreens in Isla Vista closed.
This week: a change of Venu, entertainment centers frozen in time, and more intrigue in the fast casual running challenge world. 📺.
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Why aren’t business deals related to streaming services more like pro athlete deals?
Fubo, you’re heading to Disney. Venu? You’re cut. Elmo? You’re the new power forward for the Pelicans. Hope you like humid summers buddy.
This week: running for a [fast casual] cause, robot on robot crime, and EV showrooming. 🌯.
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On the third day of Christmas my true love sent to me,
Three inflatable snowmen
Two sets of string lights
And a home improvement store finally rolling out support for contactless payments.
That’s right folks, it’s the 2024 Holiday Spectacular.
This week: Inside Bob Iger’s NBA, Italian smart lights, and the lump of coal that is Apple Intelligence (so far). 🪨.
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“Dear Mr. Hanks,
As you know, our Client owns all intellectual property rights globally in and to the concept of “your body breaking down and becoming a slow healing, creaky pile of mush after the age of 28.” Your blatant alteration and repurposing of this concept in the media constitutes unauthorized use and dilution of our Client’s prior art.
We immediately demand you cease and desist all future activity related to conveying a specific date as to when aging really hits you like a ton of bricks. Or give us some of that Forest Gump money.”
This week: make it a Blockbuster night. 🏎️
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Kinda nice of Apple to spend the week before the election giving us all little bite size Mac updates as a distraction. Wait, new notification hold on.
From the NYT: “Here’s why the Mac mini power button is bad news for Harris amongst undecided voters.”
ffs.
This week: cracklin’ lattes, Excel productivity, and defunct startups. ☕
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How long until we have the Chipotle Burrito Assembly Line by Fisher Price® on every five year old’s Christmas list i mean really now.
This week: Bay Area childless dog man parenting corner, EV door handles as a troubling metaphor, and Ryan backslides into his dangerous case-free lifestyle. 🐣.
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The kids want media that’s quicker, more concise, and timely. That’s why we’re introducing the podcast equivalent of baseball’s pitch clock: “one quick thought”. Judging by the episode length, it’s a work in progress.
This week: spiced is the new spiked, freemium is the new spon-con, and brining some Barlow energy to Waterloo.💦.
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