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#715: Aliens From Mechanical Pencil Land

May 7, 2026 · 53 minutes

Hosted by Brad Dowdy and Myke Hurley.

This is a “Brad buys things episode,” with no item more important to the future of this podcast than the Pilot AIRSTEP.

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#614: $100 Billion Is the Floor

May 4, 2026 · 105 minutes

Hosted by Jason Snell and Myke Hurley.

We read between the lines of Apple's latest record financial results to see how they will impact future products and aquisitions in the Ternus Era. Plus: An Ultra name conundrum, Johny Srouji's burnout, and F1's stateside debut.

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David and Stephen take stock of where AI is actually useful right now. They cover dictation, browsers, agentic workflows, MCP, and Apple Intelligence, plus the real projects each runs today, including email triage and a customer-service robot.

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#117: Love to Your Mothers

May 1, 2026 · 37 minutes

Hosted by Jason Snell.

It's time to say goodbye. But before we go, we read some final letters, Steven hides in Sports Corner, and Jason answers a bit of podcast lore. Thank you all for listening to Downstream.

In honor of Tim Cook's pending retirement, Federico, Myke, and Stephen rank some of his quotes from the last 15 years.

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