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 (podsearch.david-smith.org/shows/11).

Links:

• RAM Doubler (tidbits.com/2019/01/24/25-years-ago-in-tidbits…) and DiskDoubler (tidbits.com/1991/01/21/double-stuff), which came from two different developers.

• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StuffIt and Compact Pro (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Pro).

• “Apple in China (amazon.com/Apple-China-Capture-Greatest-Compan…)” by Patrick McGee.

• Patrick McGee on The Talk Show last year (daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2025/05/29/ep-423).

• “Go Computer Now! (gocomputernow.com)”, Ben Zotto’s book on Sphere Computer Corporation.

• Movies:
• The Player (themoviedb.org/movie/10403-the-player?language…)

• Airplane! (themoviedb.org/movie/813-airplane)

• Monty Python and the Holy Grail (themoviedb.org/movie/762-monty-python-and-the-…)

• "Apple Faced Bipartisan Opposition When It Last Lobbied to Buy Chinese RAM in 2022 (daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/27/apple-fac…)".

• Gnome (lexfriedman.com/gnome), Lex Friedman's clever new animated GIF search/library utility for Mac and iOS. (Also: My link to Gnome at DF (daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/30/gnome).)

• Biff! (theincomparable.com/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.