420: ‘The Best Hatched Plan’, With Glenn Fleishman

Special guest Glenn Fleishman returns to the show for episode 420 on 4/20, but everyone’s sober, I swear. Topics include Trump’s dumb tariffs and Glenn’s smart new edition of his book Six Centuries of Type & Printing.

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Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good (podsearch.david-smith.org/shows/11).

Links:

• Pre-order “Six Centuries of Type & Printing: New Edition” (kickstarter.com/projects/glennf/six-centuries-…).

• My link to Glenn’s Kickstarter page (daringfireball.net/linked/2025/04/16/six-centu…).

• “.BLUE proposes to create an Internet space in which businesses, organizations and individuals can create an Internet identity tied to the color and the concept of blue.” (icannwiki.org/.blue).

• XKCD comic on open source dependencies (xkcd.com/2347).

• Pathmark’s “No Frills” Brand (duckduckgo.com/?t=h_&q=pathmark+no+frills+…).

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.