The Talk Show With John Gruber

The Talk Show With John Gruber

The director’s commentary track for Daring Fireball. Long digressions on Apple, technology, design, movies, and more.

Episodes

438: ‘2025 Year in Review’, With Rene Ritchie

December 31, 2025 • 162 mins
A look back at Apple’s 2025, with special guest Rene Ritchie.
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437: ‘A Naughty Citizen’, With Quinn Nelson

December 24, 2025 • 148 mins
Special guest Quinn Nelson returns for a two-part holiday spectacular: the iPad in the wake of iPadOS 26, and Apple's executive changes as Tim Cook seemingly nears the end of his time as CEO.
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436: ‘Financial Boner’, With Tyler Hayes

November 30, 2025 • 95 mins
Special guest: Tyler Hayes. Topics include how to get a small phone today, which way foldables should fold, the state of Apple TV (including its new “sonic logo”), and some holiday gift gadget recommendations.
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435: ‘Lincoln Bio Services’, With Stephen Robles

November 21, 2025 • 78 mins
Special guest Stephen Robles joins the show. Topics include indie media and YouTube, Shortcuts and automation, and the state of podcasting.
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434: ‘Knee-Jerk Contrarian’, With Dan Frommer

November 18, 2025 • 114 mins
Special guest Dan Frommer returns to the show. Topics include the indie media business, the iPhone Pocket, the iPhone Air (including rumors about the second generation model), AI “personalities”, and five years of Apple Silicon Macs. Also, six years of Dan’s site, The New Consumer.
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433: ‘Meat Bags’, With Brian Mueller

October 31, 2025 • 87 mins
Special guest Brian Mueller, developer of Carrot Weather, joins the show to commemorate the 10th anniversary of his utterly ridiculous but totally serious weather app.
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432: ‘You and Frank Sinatra’, With Dan Moren

October 26, 2025 • 128 mins
Dan Moren returns to the show. Topics include Atlas, ChatGPT's new web browser (or anti-web browser) for the Mac; Apple's loss in a "landmark" regulatory lawsuit in the UK regarding App Store commission rates; multiple reports of poor sales for the iPhone Air; and Apple's M5 product announcements: MacBook Pro, iPads Pro, and Vision Pro.
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431: ‘Iconic Pig Lipstick’, With John Moltz

September 30, 2025 • 73 mins
John Moltz returns to the show to talk about the iPhone 17 lineup: the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max, iPhone 17, and the no-number iPhone Air. Not one word about baseball, but some *Star Wars* talk may or may not have snuck in.
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430: ‘Ersatz PopSocket’, With Andru Edwards

August 31, 2025 • 138 mins
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.
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429: ‘Weird Turtle Fake Out’, With Matthew Panzarino

August 25, 2025 • 133 mins
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.
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428: ‘Michigan-Starred Fine Dining’, With Louie Mantia

July 31, 2025 • 185 mins
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.
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427: ‘The Shift-2 Crowd’, With Jason Snell

July 25, 2025 • 132 mins
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.)
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426: ‘The Cutting Edge Latest Supermodel’, With David Smith

June 30, 2025 • 132 mins
Special guest David Smith returns to the show for a developer's perspective look at WWDC 2025.
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425: ‘Through the Wall Like Kool-Aid Man’, With Chance Miller

June 26, 2025 • 104 mins
Chance Miller returns to the show to discuss the news and announcements from WWDC 2025.
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424: ‘Live From WWDC 2025’, With Joanna Stern and Nilay Patel

June 14, 2025 • 126 mins
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.
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423: ‘Sewing Machine Repair Shop’, With Patrick McGee

May 29, 2025 • 92 mins
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.
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422: ‘A Monkey on a Rock’, With Stephen Hackett

May 26, 2025 • 134 mins
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.
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421: ‘The Ratchet of Flippancy’, With Craig Mod

April 30, 2025 • 113 mins
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.
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420: ‘The Best Hatched Plan’, With Glenn Fleishman

April 20, 2025 • 128 mins
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”.
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419: ‘Podcasting Technology Cadence’, With MG Siegler

March 23, 2025 • 148 mins
MG Siegler returns to the show to talk about the drama surrounding Siri and Apple Intelligence.
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