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We’re off this week, but we’ve got a cappuccino-sized episode for you anyhow. In this mini: Carlos finds new ways to make sleep as complicated as humanly possible and Ryan has surprisingly strong feelings about candy nomenclature. 🍬.

Tax day is approaching and while you should have filed months ago, we got your back in case you’re just barely trying to log into TurboTax. Stay on the right side of Uncle Sam by keeping the following in mind: 1) You cannot claim your Roomba as a dependent. 2) Having watched Ted Lasso means you legally have to change your declared occupation to “football hooligan”. 3) If you bought a Tesla with Bi...

The Pepsi challenge, but make it Bubly. This week: Hamilton comes to Cupertino, putting iPad OS on a PIP, and a stroll down the freezer aisle at TJ's. 🍨.

You know, a phone company with the defacto podcast directory is a little like the mule with a spinning wheel. No one knows how he got it, and danged if he knows how to use it! This week: Taylor Swift B-sides, ZIP disks, and a newly jacked Tim Apple continues flirting with antitrust regulators.

Just once, I want Michael Barbaro to break character and start The Daily with “Act One: a Texas high school’s challenge to reopen in the era of the coronavirus. From WBEZ in Chicago, it’s This American Newspaper.” He’ll never do it, but with second dose fever dreams looming, anything is on the table. This week: bad Scooters, remotes get a little less universal, and half-hearted predictions around...

Now congregants, if you would please turn to Exodus 31:18, we will read of Phil Schiller’s arduous journey to Mount Sinai where he received the App Store rules — rules that persist to this very day! This week: keyboards that go clickety clack, Tim’s relationship with the truth is sort of whack, and a new Sonos speaker small enough to take to the track. ⌨️.

“Mr. Owl, how many bites does it take to get to the shame center of In-N-Out Animal Style fries?” Let’s find out. One... Two... Two bites…¹ oh no was that american cheese? This week: tax shelters, email notifications, and a meatless alternative to Sunday Night Football. 🏈. ¹ If you don’t get this reference, ask your nearest boomer.

We’re almost done writing our screenplay: “The Curse of the iPod Hi-Fi”. It’s a working title, but we think it’d be a great fit for TV+. Any listeners know someone who can get us a meeting with Tim or Eddy? This week: new threads, slow streets, and Larry Page watches you sleep. 💤 .

Seems kind of unprofessional for a veterinarian to write “a bit chonky” under weight on a dog’s chart, tbh. This week: Britishisms, millennial chip marketing, and yet another entrant into the very un-socially distanced streaming wars. 🐶.

We’ll get Blue Barn to stop calling sandwiches “sandos” if British folks agree to stop calling vaccinations “jabs”. Deal, Boris? This week: food and beverage reviews, vine voices, and the lead barrister of AFC Richmond finally gets the recognition he deserves. ⚽️.

This new generation with their dabbing and Tiktok will never understand what it was like in the 1990s. There was no Spotify. We had to walk uphill, in the snow, both ways to Fry’s to get a spindle of CD-Rs for our sick Sugar Ray mixes. This week: chicken sandwiches, mass transit, and a more jacked era of the Gerber baby. 🍼.

Up is down. Black is white. Congress is effective. Carlos had embraced the multi-pad lifestyle? This week: barnstorming the HGTV vault, swiping on niche dating apps, and supercruising in the new Mach-EUV. 🚗.

Sure an Apple Car might sound fine on paper, but how is your average driver supposed to flip it over to plug in the Lightning cable for charging? This week: living más, steering the climate climate policy agenda, and going over the top in Waco. 🏡.

Short squeezes over quiet sneezes all day every day. This week: cable sports, ultra wideband figs, and the case for why Apple might give in and make the computer people actually want. 💻.

New administration who dis? This week: crimes against coffee and eggs, sparkling water bitters, and Apple's plan to restore dignity and decorum to the Mac. 🇺🇸.

Well, we certainly won't make the mistake of mixing up Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio again after this week. This week: deplatforming, flight simulating, and America's favorite new game: bourbon or old timey candy? 🥃.

Excerpt from the Disney earnings call: “You get a Star Wars spin-off! And you get a Star Wars spin-off! Everyone gets a Star Wars spin-off!” This week: Miami’s Gavin Newsom, NBA bubble coffee shops, and Tim Cook presses the thumbs down button on his TiVo remote.

Just in time for your long holiday car rides to distant family get-togethers, we have a special Max-sized episode for ya'll. Wait, there's a global pandemic going on? And you should all stay the h*ck home? Oh... This week: Fieri chat, home audio talk, and the big deal that is WarnerMedia's 2021 streaming strategy. This is a good one. 🎥.

How’s the weather in Yountville this time of year? This week: washing dishes is as easy as 1-2-3, picking an espresso machine for all of you but mostly me, and home audio upgrades for boomier Bublé around the Christmas tree. 🎄.

Capitalism is a fickle beast. Sure it’s why a health emergency can bankrupt a family, but sometimes Apple will only charge you 6x what something should cost instead of 12. So there’s that. This week: beefy camera bumps, mid-Atlantic coffee chain merch, and your hosts’ surprisingly diametrically opposed takes on Apple’s new app store commission scheme. Email tcook@apple.com to let us know who is ri...

It’s time to settle the age old question of the what the correct viewing order is for newcomers to the Star Wars films. The definitive answer is: Episode 4, Episode 5, The Lion King because Han Solo played Mufasa, the Clone Wars, the one with BB-8 bein’ all cute, and then maybe the one where Buzz Lightyear had a cameo in it. This week: corporate money in elections, more on Apple TV+’s Theodore Las...

Quiet week. Certainly there was nothing anyone should have remembered in November. Wait, why is everyone wearing a sticker... This week: seven year old Carlos' pragmatic approach to Halloween, Still or Sparkling with Ted Lasso, and Price is Right rules on wool runner crab t-shirts. 🦀 .

Sometimes on a Sunday in between chores, it’s important to lie down on the couch for a minute to see how the Instagram Corgis are doing. It’s not scandalous, it’s called self care. #normalizesiestas. This week: fancy camera-ing, recycling day market research, and a Disneyland for Tesla drivers except it’s in the Nevada desert to help them test their sketchy af autopilot software. 🚗.

Variety has off-the-record sources that are totally not us reporting that Oprah and Tom Hanks are in a bidding war to buy the rights to the show for upwards of $220 million. The ball is in your court, Spotify. This week: direct democracy, accidental Kalanick, and Quibi we hardly knew ye.

You have a new memory! "Existential dread for American democracy through the years." Would you like to continue receiving those notifications? "No, thanks." This week: yurt living in rural Idaho, buying wine at a MittMo in Utah, and a speed run through the October Apple event. 🍎.