The Talk Show With John Gruber
Film
The director’s commentary track for Daring Fireball. Long digressions on Apple, technology, design, movies, and more.
Location:
Austin, TX
Description:
The director’s commentary track for Daring Fireball. Long digressions on Apple, technology, design, movies, and more.
Language:
English
Episodes
430: ‘Ersatz PopSocket’, With Andru Edwards
8/31/2025
Special guest Andru Edwards joins the show. Topics include Google’s Pixel 10 event and the Pixel 10 family of devices, AI’s effect on computational photography, foldable phones, and some speculation on Apple’s September 9 “Awe Dropping” event.
Duration:02:18:29
429: ‘Weird Turtle Fake Out’, With Matthew Panzarino
8/25/2025
Matthew Panzarino returns to the show. Topics include 007 logo creator Joe Caroff’s death at 103, Google’s weird “Made by Google” event hosted by Jimmy Fallon, the UK supposedly dropping its demand for an iCloud encryption backdoor, and Apple’s workaround for the Apple Watch blood oxygen sensor patent stalemate.
Duration:02:13:44
428: ‘Michigan-Starred Fine Dining’, With Louie Mantia
7/31/2025
Special guest Louie Mantia joins the show to talk about Liquid Glass, the various OS 26 updates, and the worrisome state of Apple's UI design overall. Also: sandwiches.
Duration:03:05:39
427: ‘The Shift-2 Crowd’, With Jason Snell
7/25/2025
Jason Snell returns to the show to talk about the early PC platform rivalries of the 1980s, iOS 26 leaks (and Apple suing YouTuber Jon Prosser), the various Apple OS 26 public betas and the state of Liquid Glass, and more. (Where by “more” I mean a little baseball and keyboard nerdery.)
Duration:02:12:15
426: ‘The Cutting Edge Latest Supermodel’, With David Smith
6/30/2025
Special guest David Smith returns to the show for a developer's perspective look at WWDC 2025.
Duration:02:12:15
425: ‘Through the Wall Like Kool-Aid Man’, With Chance Miller
6/26/2025
Chance Miller returns to the show to discuss the news and announcements from WWDC 2025.
Duration:01:44:02
424: ‘Live From WWDC 2025’, With Joanna Stern and Nilay Patel
6/14/2025
Recorded in front of a live audience at The California Theatre in San Jose Tuesday evening, special guests Joanna Stern and Nilay Patel join me to discuss Apple’s announcements at WWDC 2025.
Duration:02:06:04
423: ‘Sewing Machine Repair Shop’, With Patrick McGee
5/29/2025
Patrick McGee joins the show to discuss his must-read new book, *Apple in China* -- one of the best books about Apple anyone has ever written.
Duration:01:32:42
422: ‘A Monkey on a Rock’, With Stephen Hackett
5/26/2025
Stephen Hackett, proprietor of 512 Pixels and co-founder of Relay (purveyor of many fine podcasts), joins the show. Topics include: IO (or if you will, io), the new joint venture of OpenAI and Jony Ive’s LoveFrom; the sheer fantasy of “Made in America” iPhones; and Fortnite’s return to the US App Store.
Duration:02:14:46
421: ‘The Ratchet of Flippancy’, With Craig Mod
4/30/2025
Craig Mod returns to the show to discuss his splendid new book, *Things Become Other Things*. Other topics include creating with AI tools (including programming), social media permanence vs. ephemerality, and more.
Duration:01:53:11
420: ‘The Best Hatched Plan’, With Glenn Fleishman
4/20/2025
Special guest Glenn Fleishman returns to the show for episode 420 on 4/20, but everyone’s sober, I swear. Topics include Trump’s dumb tariffs and Glenn’s smart new edition of his book “Six Centuries of Type & Printing”.
Duration:02:08:24
419: ‘Podcasting Technology Cadence’, With MG Siegler
3/23/2025
MG Siegler returns to the show to talk about the drama surrounding Siri and Apple Intelligence.
Duration:02:28:58
418: ‘Putting a Stink on the Letter X’, With Craig Hockenberry
3/8/2025
Craig Hockenberry returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s new hardware this week — M3 iPad Airs, A16 regular iPads, M4 MacBook Airs, and the M4 Max and surprising M3 Ultra Mac Studios. And we go deep on The Iconfactory’s years-in-the-making new app, [Tapestry](https://usetapestry.com/) — a universal timeline for the Internet.
Duration:02:42:03
417: ‘Nothing Is Possible’, With Paul Kafasis
2/24/2025
Special guest: Paul Kafasis. Special topics: Siri/Super Bowl nonsense, “Gulf of Mexico/America” nonsense, the iPhone 16e gets announced, and a veritable Bond villain buys the rights to the James Bond movie franchise.
Duration:02:00:43
416: ‘A Professional Internet User’, With Vlad Prelovac
12/24/2024
Kagi founder and CEO Vlad Prelovac joins the show to talk about the business of web search, the thinking behind Kagi’s own amazing search engine, and their upstart WebKit-based browser Orion.
Duration:02:32:38
415: ‘A Good Duck Butt’, With Allen Pike
12/2/2024
Special guest Allen Pike joins the show to talk about the state of generative AI and how Apple Intelligence measures up (so far). Also: some speculation on Apple’s pending acquisition of the ever-difficult-to-pronounce Pixelmator.
Duration:02:32:52
414: ‘Annoying Friendliness’, With Joanna Stern
11/18/2024
Joanna Stern returns to the show to talk about our new best friends, AI chatbots, and I chime in with how the Voight-Kampff test got it all wrong.
Duration:01:54:06
413: ‘Holiday Party 2024’, With Merlin Mann
11/9/2024
This again. Jiminy. Well, once more, let's talk *around* another election, and try, by doing so, to maybe express something *about* it.
Duration:02:52:16
412: ‘His Most Pro Shirt’, With Dan Moren
10/31/2024
Dan Moren returns to the show to discuss this week’s introductions of the first M4 Macs: iMac, Mac Mini, and MacBook Pros.
Duration:01:41:42
411: ‘An Acoustic Nightmare’, With Tyler Stalman
10/7/2024
Tyler Stalman joins the show to discuss the iPhone 16 lineup’s cameras, and the state of iPhone photography.
Duration:01:53:03