The Gift Job

Speaker 3
What was his personality that you had to spend a little time with him?
Speaker 4
Yeah he
Speaker 1
seemed really nice. I mean he was like obviously very enthusiastic about Apple because I think he was famously the first person in the UK to buy a Mac. Thanks Stephen Fry
Speaker 4
was second. And he was
Speaker 1
really nice just kind of I didn't need to find the exact quote but we were talking about the
Speaker 5
G4
Speaker 1
Cube and he called it something like an elegant
Speaker 4
answer
Speaker 1
to a question that nobody was asking and that phrase is kind of stuck in
Speaker 4
my
Speaker 1
head. But yeah he gave me his time and when I actually met him he didn't say who the hell are you.
Speaker 3
He said it was
Speaker 1
nice to meet me and all that and this is one of these things of like sometimes when you kind of meet a person like that. Just that five minute interaction or
Speaker 5
whatever
Speaker 1
just means probably way more to the person receiving it than maybe the person giving it but
Speaker 5
it's
Speaker 2
yeah. I think you just accurately described how people feel when they meet you James. So
Speaker 3
congratulations
Speaker 4
on that.
Speaker 1
I have only once felt mildly famous and that was I think it was 2018 WWDC where we arrived and we went to the Apple Park whatever it's called.
Speaker 2
The gift job. Yes. Yes.
Speaker 1
And I was recognized three times within the first half hour and I thought
Speaker 4
oh no this is going to be this is I
Speaker 1
don't know what this is going to mean for the rest of this conference. I'm not sure how I feel about this. It didn't actually like after that it kind of settled down and I was running around with a big peak out
Speaker 4
of T-shirt and
Speaker 1
there was a on the top of the visitor center there's a bit where you could look out and you could see like a vague outline of a roof of Apple Park and a lot of trees and people were getting the photos taken
Speaker 4
up
Speaker 1
there and there was an Apple employee whose job it was to basically take photos of people and be nice
Speaker 4
and the
Speaker 1
guy there
Speaker 4
pointed
Speaker 1
at my T-shirt or whatever and said that's a great app and I said oh thank you and then you know took pictures and five minutes later you went wait are you James? And yeah that is the kind of thing that can only happen well okay I say only happen mostly only happens when you're like within one mile radius of WWDC that there are enough people who might recognize you. However there was one time I stepped out of my house and there was a guy in a car that was parked just outside and he kind of beckoned me over and
Speaker 4
I expected him
Speaker 1
to say you know do you know the way to someone so street or
Speaker 4
whatever and he
Speaker 1
said I just saw you on on Twitch I was
Speaker 5
like oh and I thought
Speaker 1
you just saw me come out of my house
Speaker 3
that's not good yeah
Speaker 2
yeah
Speaker 3
well they say oh yes I was just visiting a friend yes are
Speaker 2
you a nice person I hope you're a nice person.

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