145: ‘Anthropomorphic Human Bowel’ With Ben Thompson

Special guest Ben Thompson returns to the show. Topics include last Sunday’s Super Bowl 50 (and its mostly terrible commercials), Tim Cook’s tweet with a photo he took from the sidelines post-game, Twitter’s algorithmic timeline and the state of today’s Google- and Facebook-dominated online advertising industry, Yahoo’s dismal prospects, and more.

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Links:

• Tim Cook, Super Bowl photographer.
• The New Yorker advertising Josh Topolsky’s “The End of Twitter” article — on Twitter.
• Concussions suffered in this year’s Super Bowl.
• How we used to finger our friends in college.
• Dustin Curtis computed the 2015 revenue and profit per employee for Yahoo, Twitter, MSFT, Google, Facebook, and Apple.
• Xifaxan’s Super Bowl 50 commercial, starring a diarrhea-stricken human bowel.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Moisés Chiullan.