Nilay Patel returns to the show. Topics include the iPhones 15, journalism in the age of AI, and what it’s like to have Barack Obama on your podcast.

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Links:

• Barack Fucking Obama on Decoder.
• Matthew Panzarino on Decoder.
• Sports Illustrated’s phony AI writers.
• Horace Dediu back in 2011: “The Cook Doctrine”.
• Searching YouTube for “LG vs. GE refrigerators”.
• Nilay’s Pulitzer-nominated investigation into how many wiper blades are on the Tesla Cybertruck.
• Doug DeMuro’s car-review YouTube channel.
• Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC.
• Steve Jobs on how most professional managers are bozos.
• Nilay’s AI-written article: “Best printer 2023: just buy this Brother laser printer everyone has, it’s fine”.
• Amanda Chicago Lewis’s crackerjack feature story at The Verge on SEO “experts”: “The People Who Ruined the Internet”.

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