The Talk Show With John Gruber

Special guest Dave Wiskus joins the show to talk about the new teaser trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and just-announced title and cast for the 24th EON Productions Bond movie, Spectre. Other topics include the untapped potential of podcasting and YouTubing, cutting babies in half, turtle copulation, and kangaroo genitalia.

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Links:

• Star Wars: The Force Awakens teaser
• Spectre, the upcoming 24th EON Productions James Bond film
• Midnight Run
• Original 1976 Star Wars trailer, sans John Williams’s score, with uncolored lightsabers and a Helvetica Bold logotype
• John Brownlee: “In Defense of the New Star Wars Lightsaber”
• BBC’s Fleming miniseries (It’s currently streaming on Netflix.)
• Everything or Nothing — good documentary on the Bond films, also streaming on Netflix currently
• Fantastic re-cut Never Say Never Again intro, including Dionne Warwick’s unused recording of John Barry’s “Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang” for the opening credits
• Dave Addey: “Typeset in the Future: Alien”
• Unprofessional
• Wiskus’s “Better Elevation” video show, and the recent “Podcast Intervention” and “How to Make a Hit App” episodes
• CGP Grey