October 12th, 2011 // 7 Comments
Filed: Tech
The latest edition of the Double D Guys podcast has arrived, and it is titled Fake Steve Jobs Remembers Steve Jobs. It’s also available on iTunes, as always. This one takes a somber tone. We recorded it last Friday, less than two days after the news broke. I did most of the talking, and explained how the Fake Steve blog began (it was totally a joke, never meant to be permanent) and how, through the blog, I came to learn about Steve Jobs and to admire him. People are often surprised to hear this, but before I started the blog I really didn’t know much about Steve Jobs. I was trying all sorts of fake CEO blogs and this one just happened to be the one that caught on. When that happened I had to go buy some biographies and start learning about him. When I read Steve’s life story I really became intrigued. He was such a complex, complicated figure. He was good and bad, dark and light. I came to believe that the dark energy inside him was what fueled his brilliance, and that his challenge was to harness the power of that dark energy without being consumed by it. Needless to say, he succeeded. As Woz told me in our long conversation, “If he were to sit back and say, `When I was young, what was my dream in the world?” well he achieved that 100 times over.”
Also: I contributed a small piece to the Newsweek special edition about Steve. It’s called “Garage Band,” and talks about the early days, which I have always found fascinating. I hope you will check it out and enjoy it.
“As Woz told me in our long conversation, “If he were to sit back and say, `When I was young, what was my dream in the world?” well he achieved that 100 times over.””
Aw…shucks, thanks Lyons.
But why didn’t quote me on my childhood dream? And that achieved getting laid 1000 times over?!?!!! HAHAHAHAHA!
But, honestly, you sound so smarmy on this podcast, like an East coast metrosexual with a man crush on Jobs….oh. wait…nevermind.
You wouldn’t be so enthralled with the guy if, every time he saw you, he faked a hug and gave you a gargantuan wedgie. Fuck, I’ve had to get coffee enemas to clear out the Hanes!!!
Hey Lyons –
Are you gonna interview me?
I invented the Macintosh – have you heard of it?
Andy – come on the show. It would be awesome. Lord knows we need someone who can disassemble our mutual protagonist-pal.
Woz, my retinas are burning with the script-based revelation of wedgie-making. Did the oft-repeated experience not leave you with the urge to go ‘clean commando’?
Hi Dave –
Thanks for your concern.
If I were to go commando, there would be nothing clean about it. Just ask Kim Komando.
Unlike Lyons, she got the “full” interview, if you get my drift.
Oh, and Dave…just between us boys…
Have you ever heard of the term “shart”?
Let’s just leave it at that, OK?
Cue frenzied assault on the urban dictionary for validation of shart.
Urgh. Seeks darkened room. Not dark enough. Finds spot inside Quentin Tarantino’s hungover mind. Still too much light.
Hey Dan
Just read the obit on the FSJ blog. Like many others who responded there, I hope you leave that blog up…it’s a great tribute to just how influential Steve Jobs became in our ever evolving technical world. I will also echo some of the other sentiments there….I think you should start writing in the blog regularly again. FSJ could have some very funny, insightful commentary from beyond the grave. The fans of the blog would really have a blast with that.