David Rosenthal: recommendation

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…Well it might be because I have the Sonos ones and the firmware in the Sonos ones is different from the ones that Amazon actually makes. Mine will just light up when people say things that are not that word and are just like in a movie. When dialogue sounds too much like that word. Interesting. Here's my proposal. I think we should do one of these big tech companies a year for two reasons. One, for Microsoft, for Apple, I think those are going to be three-plus episodes to do it right, even at Acquired-length episodes, so it's a huge lift. Also, I think we should spread it out because like you said, the cheat code would be if we just do them all back to back, but we have a diversity of interest here on Acquired. We want to go for many years. I even have a lot of fear around doing a three-part Microsoft series where people are going to be like I'm just out for the next three months. Next year, what we've decided is—this is a little bit approximate; we're going to average it—we're going to do a season episode and a special. Either a season being like Apple part one, or a special being an interview with someone, or an Acquired session or something that doesn't fit the normal format. That literally means that it's like, oh, you're doing a three part Microsoft thing. Well, I'm out for Q1 on Acquired.…

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