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451: ‘Taking Drugs to Get Fat’, With John Moltz
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Episode 451: ‘Taking Drugs to Get Fat’, With John Moltz
The great John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s hardware price hikes in response to the global RAM/SSD shortage, and some spitballing on what we like about the UI changes in the MacOS 27 Golden Gate beta.
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Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good.
Links:
• RAM Doubler and DiskDoubler, which came from two different developers. • StuffIt and Compact Pro. • “Apple in China” by Patrick McGee. • Patrick McGee on The Talk Show last year. • “Go Computer Now!”, Ben Zotto’s book on Sphere Computer Corporation. • Movies:
• The Player • Airplane! • Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• "Apple Faced Bipartisan Opposition When It Last Lobbied to Buy Chinese RAM in 2022". • Gnome, Lex Friedman's clever new animated GIF search/library utility for Mac and iOS. (Also: My link to Gnome at DF.) • Biff! -- Moltz's fun superhero TV/movie podcast cohosted with Dan Moren and Guy English.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
Links in the notes 17
- https://coaxtheapp.com
- https://evenrealities.com/
- https://squarespace.com/talkshow
- https://tidbits.com/2019/01/24/25-years-ago-in-tidbits-ram-doubler-debuts/
- https://tidbits.com/1991/01/21/double-stuff/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StuffIt
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Pro
- https://www.amazon.com/Apple-China-Capture-Greatest-Company/dp/1668053373/?tag=df-amzn-20
- https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2025/05/29/ep-423
- https://gocomputernow.com
- https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/10403-the-player?language=en-US
- https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/813-airplane
- https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/762-monty-python-and-the-holy-grail?language=en-US
- https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/27/apple-faced-bipartisan-opposition-to-chinese-ram
- https://lexfriedman.com/gnome/
- https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/30/gnome
- https://www.theincomparable.com/biff/
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