{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Insanely Great Podcast","title":"Six Hands, One Hernia","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/8ef33fca\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4436,"description":"The Insanely Great Podcast — Episode 16\n\"Six Hands, One Hernia\"\nChris is back live (and post-surgery) with his buddy DJ for another action-packed, no-filter episode. This one goes long — beta bugs, AirPods that won't behave, AppleCare horror stories, foldable phone skepticism, the death of the game disc, local AI on an M5 Ultra, a very opinionated Apple September preview, tariffs, data centers, and a $20 million six-armed surgical robot named the Da Vinci 5. Buckle up.\nIn this episode:\nWhy the iOS/watchOS/AirPods betas have been an absolute mess this cycle\nThe secret trick to actually catching an AirPods firmware update\nSpotify vs. Overcast — the podcast app cage match\nAppleCare: the good, the bad, and the \"just put it in the washing machine\"\nFoldable iPhone price anxiety and the case-off-the-outside-screen problem\nMemory prices, hard drive prices, and why now is a terrible time to build a PC\nThe $899 anniversary Xbox and the slow death of the game disc\nRunning local AI models on an M5 Ultra (spoiler: it's rough)\nNew Siri's lag problem, and why it can't keep up with Gemini\nA full preview of the September 9th Apple event rumors\nTariffs, government stakes in Intel and NVIDIA, and the $40 trillion debt\nChris's hernia surgery and the genuinely wild robot that performed it\n\nFollow the show\n🎙️ Subscribe wherever you listen (all 320-ish of you — we see you) 💬 Got a topic you want covered? Send it in for next episode\nChapters:","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/2bd-B6IhLKQpZJme_YE2tCybjjoR2sTeTMQ8o-Ye9uE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85MDhl/MzQ1MTg1NzA0MDk5/M2E0YmRiODc2MmJi/OGNhZS5qcGVn.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}