The Talk Show With John Gruber

Hosted by Daring Fireball / John Gruber

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Jun 2026

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

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June 10, 20261 hr 59 min

449: ‘Live From WWDC 2026’, With Joanna Stern and Nilay Patel

Recorded in front of a live audience at The California Theatre in San Jose on Tuesday 9 June 2026, special guests Joanna Stern and Nilay Patel join John Gruber to discuss Apple’s announcements at WWDC 2026.

June 1, 20261 hr 50 min

448: ‘Twins Named John’, With Stephen Hackett

Stephen Hackett returns to the show to help me make sense of a problem that is hard even to describe, let alone solve, regarding Apple One, family sharing, a separate Media & Purchasing account, and iCloud storage space. Also: what we're expecting from WWDC 2026.

May 16, 20262 hr 15 min

447: ‘A Sociopathic Father’, With Adam Lisagor

Adam Lisagor returns to the show to talk about Hovercraft, his new virtual presentation camera app for Mac, and how he's developing it with AI coding tools. Also, delicious Japanese spite sandwich cookies.

May 1, 20262 hr 46 min

446: ‘Food and Beverage Director’, With MG Siegler

MG Siegler returns to the show to discuss Apple’s announcement that Tim Cook is stepping aside (into the role of executive chairman) and John Ternus will become CEO.

April 1, 20262 hr 34 min

445: ‘Apple at 50’, With John Siracusa

Who better to join the show to commemorate Apple’s 50th anniversary than John Siracusa?

March 29, 20261 hr 37 min

444: ‘You’re Going to Have the Niggles’, With Christina Warren

Christina Warren returns to the show to discuss Apple’s big month of product announcements — in particular, the iPhone 17e and MacBook Neo. And we pour one out for the Mac Pro.

March 18, 20261 hr 25 min

443: ‘The Pogue Feature’, With David Pogue

Special guest David Pogue discusses his excellent, entertaining, and amazingly comprehensive new book, “Apple: The First 50 Years”.

March 1, 20262 hr 16 min

442: ‘Bad Dates’, With Jason Snell

Jason Snell returns to the show to discuss the 2025 Six Colors Apple Report Card, MacOS 26 Tahoe, Apple Creator Studio, along with what we expect/hope for in next week’s Apple product announcements.

February 25, 20262 hr 10 min

441: ‘Serious Opinionators’, With Adam Engst

Adam Engst returns to the show to talk, in detail, about certain of the UI changes in iOS 26 and Apple's version 26 OSes overall. In particular, the new Unified view in the Phone app, and the Filter pop-up menu in both the Phone and Messages apps. Also: a shoutout to Balloon Help.

February 1, 20262 hr 6 min