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We regret to inform listeners that due to a lack of reciprocity in our business relationship with Amazon, we will no longer be offering our Chef’s Specials for purchase using Dash buttons or through Amazon Fresh. In progress Prime Air drone deliveries will be rerouted to the nearest Amazon Locker. On this week’s program: pushers, dreamers, acquirers and toll collectors.

How exactly does one make a wreath out of cactus? Asking on behalf of an ethically troubled ride sharing company. This week: Bublé, flip flops, revenue matching, and iPads — again.

Just when we thought we were Out of the Woods, streaming Taylor Swift’s new album Reputation may be just a figment of our Wildest Dreams. For you see, it seems there’s still some Bad Blood, a story we know All Too Well. Look what you made her do, meager streaming royalties… This week: Star War, portrait mode fatigue, cautionary tales, and Derek Jeter is definitely getting lots of work done. ⚾️ .

Once Mueller wraps up his Russia Inquiry, perhaps he can look into cilantro’s meddling in the burrito emoji. This week: one of us has an iPhone X, TiVo has a new interface, the Astros have a championship, and nobody should have a Whopperito. And that’s 280 characters on the dot.

Under the equal-time rule of the Honesty in Podcast Programming Online Act of 2017 (HIPPO), we are bound by law to spend 20 minutes talking about playing Jeopardy with Alexa and Alex Trebek on the Echo. Sorry, not sorry. Plus: we take a sneak peek at Tim Cook’s remake of the acclaimed 1997 thriller “The Game”.

Everyone is pouring billions into the original streaming content land rush of 2017 and nobody is happy. Little do these execs know they could pick up the rights to Supermarket Sweep for the price of a Kindle Oasis; heck, Jeff just bought 400 grocery stores, do we even have to connect the dots? This week: Apple’s MacBook Pro chickens are coming home to roost, Disney’s consumer friendly video play, the nuclear waste dump that is Twitter, and sometimes Ryan calls the Comcast CableCARD support line just to say “hi”.

Some days you feel like a Dallas Star, others you might as well be on teeth collection duty for the Redmond VLOOKUPs. This week, we’re a little out of sorts, but only because we spent all our time trying to think of one current living hockey player who isn’t Wayne Gretzky. Can’t do it. Cannot be done. Plus: a step-by-step guide on how to Live Mas®, Canada asks #WTS, and putting up a permanent away message on AOL Instant Messenger.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. This week, we dive deeper into the new Echos, look at iPhone X and its probable effect on total iPhone sales, and re-litigate the merits of an actual Apple TV. Plus: we learn that the start of Ryan’s fiscal year is dictated by when IKEA has its free meatball weekend.

Episode tasting notes: hints of apple and cactus, bitter at points but with a smooth finish. This week: two very uninformed people talk about wine, the moral leadership of Coach Pop, and Amazon’s quartet of new Echos. Also, Ryan is apparently quite pupset about his Series 3 something-or-other. ⌚️.

If you accidentally create a branded podcast for a local restaurant group, how would one go about parlaying that into some type of ‘free food for life’ situation? Asking for a friend. This week, we talk Blue Barn, emergency pods, early Apple Watch reviews, and searching for purpose in The Notch®. Plus: Ryan’s laptop gives up the ghost and he gives fancy cameras one more try.

Christmas in Cupertino is here and we hope you took your change jar to the CoinStar at the Safeway because Tim Cook ain’t f***ing around with these new price points. This week, we cut through all the queso and fake news and review Apple’s September media event, the iPhone 8 and X, and look ahead to 2020.

Garlic fries and chicken tenders, Jeff Bezos as Seattle’s true 12th man, and a crash course in the time honored tradition of cheating in New England sports. Plus: two very different opinions on Apple’s upcoming iPhone pricing strategy and a preview of next week’s fall press event.

Disconnecting and staying connected, entertainment economics, and fair-trade Echo Dots. Plus: Amazon does Apple a solid and slashes the price of avocados so millenials can afford the upcoming iPhone. Don’t worry Gen Y, homeownership is just a couple of skipped brunches away.

Americans have always been innovators, pioneers and visionaries. We invented the light bulb, the television, the iPhone and most notably — the Domino's DXP. This week: bad ice cream, pizza chain reinvention, subscription fatigue and we catch utopian Olympic fever. It's okay. You can like LA while also knowing the universal truth that the Dodgers suck. ⚾️ .

Sleepless nights, 4K vindication, and extremely expensive iPhones. This week, intrepid firmware sleuths spoil Apple Christmas and Ryan posits that Apple’s doubling down on secrecy may be a fool’s errand at scale. Plus: Bob Iger cancels his corporate Netflix account.

Planes, trains and automobiles. This week: timely travel recommendations, Apple’s forthcoming “big beautiful plants”, Netflix as a relentless original content machine and scenes from the continuing decline of our democracy. Priority boarding of this episode available for all Pocket Cast Platinum Medallion Members and above. ✈️ .

Amazon moved markets but all anyone can talk about is Swole Bezos: Mr. 206. This week: meal kits, self-drowning robots, a Star War, and our quarterly productivity intervention. We also mark the 1/8th milestone for the Trump presidency. Pardons, MAGAnomics and well done steaks for everybody. ⛳️ .

The date was July 12th, 1998. A young Sammy Sosa was nipping at the heels of one Mark McGwire in the most talked about race in all of professional sports: which major league slugger could collect the most free AOL dialup hours. This week: Prime Day, single payer shipping, Nice! store brands, and continued debate over the looming iPhone Pro pricing mistake.

An ethical quandary for the digital age, some cold water for pie-in-the-sky near-term transportation disruption, and 10 years of iPhone. Plus: Ryan lives on the edge with public betas and visits to a sketchy taco joint in the Nevada desert.

With the Giants on pace for their first 100 loss season in 30 years: a little inside baseball inside AT&T Park and a run around the follow-up bases. Plus: #fakenews and magazine covers with the golfer-in-chief, the realities of Apple’s doubling down on secrecy, and Tesla’s new breakthrough recipe delivery service.