145: ‘Anthropomorphic Human Bowel’ With Ben Thompson

The Talk Show With John Gruber

Special guest Ben Thompson returns to the show. Topics include last Sunday’s Super Bowl 50 (and its mostly terrible commercials), Tim Cook’s tweet with a photo he took from the sidelines post-game, Twitter’s algorithmic timeline and the state of today’s Google- and Facebook-dominated online advertising industry, Yahoo’s dismal prospects, and more.

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Links:

• Tim Cook, Super Bowl photographer.
• The New Yorker advertising Josh Topolsky’s “The End of Twitter” article — on Twitter.
• Concussions suffered in this year’s Super Bowl.
• How we used to finger our friends in college.
• Dustin Curtis computed the 2015 revenue and profit per employee for Yahoo, Twitter, MSFT, Google, Facebook, and Apple.
• Xifaxan’s Super Bowl 50 commercial, starring a diarrhea-stricken human bowel.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Moisés Chiullan.