{"id":2495,"date":"2012-05-25T14:40:45","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T18:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/?p=2495"},"modified":"2012-07-07T12:41:17","modified_gmt":"2012-07-07T16:41:17","slug":"the-talk-show-with-john-gruber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/2495\/the-talk-show-with-john-gruber","title":{"rendered":"The Talk Show With John Gruber"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the past few years, John Gruber and Dan Benjamin recorded an informal, off-the-cuff-seeming podcast called The Talk Show<\/a>. I didn’t listen to every episode<\/em>, but I\u00a0listened from the very beginning, before Dan had even founded the 5by5<\/a> network that later became its home.<\/p>\n

I see\u00a0The Talk Show’s\u00a0format as the prototype for many other successful 5by5 podcasts: Dan plays the cool, somewhat disinterested straight-man to a “star,” whose own temperament, philosophies and interests ultimately define the show.\u00a0After the initial success of The Talk Show, Dan threw the net wide, inviting folks such as Marco Arment<\/a>, Andy Ihnatko<\/a>, Merlin Mann<\/a>, John Siracusa<\/a>, Horace Dediu<\/a>, and Jim Dalrymple<\/a>\u00a0to indulge audiences with their own personalities and areas of expertise. I even had the pleasure of playing the star myself on one episode of Build & Analyze<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Last week, John\u00a0announced matter-of-factly<\/a> that The Talk Show would no longer air on the 5by5 network, and would be joining the lineup at the fledgling Mule Radio Syndicate<\/a>. Dan does a great job at 5by5 of emphasizing that the star of each show is who makes the show what it is. Nonetheless, Dan’s personality is unavoidably material to the mood and progression of these shows, so it’s safe to say that The Talk Show’s\u00a0departure from 5by5 marks the end of an era.<\/p>\n

The good news for fans of John Gruber, is it doesn’t mark the end of The Talk Show. John’s obsessive, meandering, sometimes distracted personality lives on at Mule, and I think this promises to be another great era in The Talk Show’s history. Episode 1<\/a> featured John Moltz<\/a> of Crazy Apple Rumors<\/a>\u00a0fame, and the two delved into all the kinds of topics I’d expect. I thoroughly enjoyed the show.<\/p>\n

I enjoyed it so much, I decided to co-sponsor this week’s episode, along with my good friends from\u00a0Bare Bones Software<\/a>:\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Talk Show Episode #2: Dare I Say, Kubrick?<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Much to my delight, the episode turned out to feature one of my favorite “internet stars,” Mr. Adam Lisagor of Sandwich Video<\/a> fame. John literally can’t go wrong<\/em> if these folks are representative of the stature of future guests. So, give the new Talk Show a try, won’t you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the past few years, John Gruber and Dan Benjamin recorded an informal, off-the-cuff-seeming podcast called The Talk Show. I didn’t listen to every episode, but I\u00a0listened from the very beginning, before Dan had even founded the 5by5 network that later became its home. I see\u00a0The Talk Show’s\u00a0format as the prototype for many other successful […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2495"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2586,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions\/2586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}