It’s Brett’s 46th birthday bash, and he’s celebrating in style with Jeff and Christina. Expect gifts like Cooks Illustrated and flood detectors, riveting overflowing toilet tales, and sampling fun with Koala. Dive into comedy insights with an ‘Elf’ story featuring James Caan, and honor Bob Newhart’s 1961 Grammy win. Plus, a TUAW domain kerfuffle and Macstock marvels. Laugh, learn, and maybe even fix your toilet seat!Sponsor1Password Extended Access Management solves the problems traditional IAM and MDM can’t touch. It’s security for the way we work today, and it’s available now to companies with Okta, and coming later this year to Google Workspace and Microsoft Entra. Check it out at 1Password.com/product/XAM.Chapters

00:00 Introduction and Birthday Celebrations00:43 Gifts and Subscriptions02:37 Home Improvement and Plumbing Stories03:53 The Best Toilet Seat Ever05:52 Plumbing Mishaps and Family History11:10 Birthday Party Plans13:40 CrowdStrike Incident19:09 Sponsor: 1Password21:20 Sponsor bonus content27:33 Reviving TUAW: A Controversial Story33:59 AI Articles and Identity Theft35:08 The Resurrection of Old Content35:48 Reflecting on Past Work37:40 The Sale of Content Rights44:50 Macstock Reunion50:09 GrAPPtitude: App Recommendations01:04:38 Remembering Bob Newhart

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Jammin' on the One

[00:00:00] Introduction and Birthday Celebrations

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[00:00:03] Brett: Hey, happy birthday. It’s my birthday. It’s Overtired. Um, we’re all here this week. It’s Jeff Severance Gunsel, Christina Warren, and myself, Brett Terpstra. Uh, how are you guys?

[00:00:16] Christina: Not too bad. Go on, go on, Jeff. Yeah, exactly. I was gonna say pretty birth I was gonna say happy birthday. I was like, not as good as you, birthday boy, but you know,

[00:00:24] Brett: I’m 46 today

[00:00:26] Jeff: Forty six.

[00:00:28] Brett: I’m not lying about my age like some people do. Um,

[00:00:33] Christina: It might be, it might be your birthday, but I’ll still tell you to fuck off. I can lie about my age as long as I want.

[00:00:37] Brett: I wasn’t singling you out. I just said some people.

[00:00:41] Jeff: Some people.

[00:00:43] Christina: Some

[00:00:43] Gifts and Subscriptions

[00:00:43] Brett: Um, yeah, I, uh, I’ve had a really good birthday. Elle, Elle knows how much I love getting gifts and I’m too old for most people to give me so they take it upon themselves to shower me. With gifts every year. [00:01:00] Um, and this year they got me a bunch of cool stuff, including a subscription to Cooks Illustrated and, uh, the book Vegetables Illustrated from Cooks Illustrated, which I’m very excited.

[00:01:11] Jeff: Print subscription? What a beautiful is this still beautiful? It’s been a long time. I don’t know if it got eaten by okay,

[00:01:17] Brett: I was picking them up at the co-op and just like, well actually, uh, one of the, one of the families that EL was house sitting for had them laying out. And I had forgotten how much I loved that magazine. Even like,