You Chose Poorly - A Podcast about being wrong

You Chose Poorly S05E05: I'm a Family Man

K Sawyer Paul — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 21:40:26 GMT

Mikey and Sawyer talk about apologizing for purchases, the iPhone Air, storage tiers, and how family accounts might be the stickiest thing companies make.

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You Chose Poorly S05E04: Mikey meets Team Coco

K Sawyer Paul — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 14:22:26 GMT

Mikey and Sawyer talk about fandom, meeting Conan O'Brien and his team, and an update to our fitness journeys this year.

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You Chose Poorly S05E03: Sawyer Leaves Apple

K Sawyer Paul — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 14:02:20 GMT

Mikey and Sawyer talk about the year of tech turning heel, leaving apple, Samsung Fold phones, Windows Phones, and more.

Show notes:

Jonathan Ive on Blue Peter ("Sorry, I think I don't remember this right!" - Mikey)

You Chose Poorly S05E02: Swedish Death Clean

K Sawyer Paul — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 18:46:00 GMT

Mikey and Sawyer talk about tech left behind by a late family member. They wrestle with how to feel about that.

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You Chose Poorly S05E01 - Tech Turns Heel

K Sawyer Paul — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 03:15:33 GMT

Mikey and Sawyer start the new season with tech news, and it's bleak! It's a politically-charged episode, but tech is politically charged right now. Maybe it always was. We discuss cancelling products and people, what good that seems to do for us, and how to find small victories during tough times.

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You Chose Poorly S04E07: Wrong About Cameras

K Sawyer Paul — Sat, 18 May 2024 18:19:15 GMT

Mikey and Sawyer talk about dedicated new cameras, old cameras, phone cameras, and doing a thing vs being a type of person.

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You Chose Poorly S04E06: VO2 pro max

K Sawyer Paul — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 21:02:07 GMT

Mikey and Sawyer talk fitness, losing weight, tracking calories, the importance of video game points, and Apple Watch.

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You Chose Poorly S04E05: I'm Looking Forward to the Tantrum I'm Gonna Have

K Sawyer Paul — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 03:42:39 GMT

⁠Mikey ⁠and ⁠Sawyer ⁠talk about CM Punk, iPhone 15 Pro Max, Readwise, and video games. Show Notes:

You Chose Poorly S04E04 - What About The iPod Shuffle???

K Sawyer Paul — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 16:06:35 GMT

Mikey and Sawyer talk about CM Punk, Apple Watch Series 9, iPhone 15 Pro Max, Finewoven stuff, Playstation 5, and console-quality games on iPhone.

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You Chose Poorly S04E03 - Tears of the Kingdom

K Sawyer Paul — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 12:34:48 GMT

Mikey and Sawyer talk about Tears of the Kingdom, gaming as a family, Zelda dates, and living in a golden age of gaming.

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You Chose Poorly S04E02 - Coffee Dinguses

K Sawyer Paul — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 17:27:27 GMT

Mikey and Sawyer almost talk about Zelda but end up reviewing a few home coffee solutions. Links: Flair Classic Overview | Affordable Espresso Maker | Flair Espresso AeroPress Coffee Maker Official Store Vertuo Pop+ Pacific Blue Nespresso Coffee Machine | Nespresso Canada Ember®: The World’s First Temperature Control Mug The Bialetti Moka Express (Episode #1) - YouTube How do you use the Ember with Health Kit? – Ember Help Bar Ember Mug: Not staying connected – Ember Help Bar John Siracusa | The Incomparable Wiki | Fandom All remaining Nordstrom stores in Canada to close for good by Tuesday | CBC News James Hoffmann Seinfeld: Sponge Worthy (Clip) | TBS - YouTube

You Chose Poorly S04E01 - A Bicycle For Your Face

K Sawyer Paul — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 12:43:00 GMT

Mikey and Sawyer discuss the Apple Vision Pro.

Links:

[Torment Nexus | Know Your Meme](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/torment-nexus)

[The gold Apple Watch Edition will start at $10,000 - The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/2015/3/9/8161553/apple-watch-edition-price-how-much)

[Apple Vision Pro - Apple](https://www.apple.com/apple-vision-pro/)

https://youtu.be/lJ_X_1Hv2lg - brock lesnar

[Bluetooth Audio Sunglasses | Bose](https://www.bose.com/en_us/products/frames.html)

[Spectacles by Snap Inc. • The Next Generation of Spectacles](https://www.spectacles.com/ca-en/)

[Steam Deck™](https://store.steampowered.com/steamdeck/)

You Chose Poorly S03E04 - Face Stuff

K Sawyer Paul — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 01:42:08 GMT

Mikey and Sawyer discuss Italy, The Canon M50 Mark ii, the iPad Mini, rating things, and vacation blogging.

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You Chose Poorly S03E03 - A Few Inches Always Matters

K Sawyer Paul — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 15:37:31 GMT

Mikey and Sawyer discuss the middle device between a phone and a computer, which is almost always an iPad. They review Mikey's iPad Mini and figure out exactly the one thing the iPad does best. Topics include: why the iPad didn't eat the computer, why it might eat the phone, and why the Surface Duo is so attractive as a concept, but not as it currently exists.

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You Chose Poorly S03E02 - I'm Stuck With the Eyes I Have

K Sawyer Paul — Tue, 31 May 2022 15:24:59 GMT

Mikey and Sawyer talk about the Canon M50 Mark II and decision-making.

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You Chose Poorly S03E01 - 10% worse for 90% off

K Sawyer Paul — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 00:16:55 GMT

Mikey and Sawyer discuss replacing broken Apple Watches, replacing broken Apple Watch straps, and replacing reality with Apple's face dingus. All this and more on the season premiere of You Chose Poorly!

Links:

Mikey's Series 7 Watch Face:

Knockoff Apple Watch Straps:

You Chose Poorly S02E08 - WiiU

K Sawyer Paul — Fri, 31 Dec 2021 17:01:23 GMT

Mikey and Sawyer detail the history of the Wii, the WiiU, and the Switch, and why one just quite isn't like the others.

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You Chose Poorly S02E07 - Zune

K Sawyer Paul — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 16:21:18 GMT

Mikey and Sawyer talk about the Nintendo Switch OLED, and then dive into the Zune and how it might be one of the biggest You Chose Poorly objects so far, especially now that Windows has finally dropped all those live tiles.

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You Chose Poorly S02E06 - Pro Wrestling

K Sawyer Paul — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 15:01:58 GMT

Mikey and Sawyer discuss being lifelong pro wrestling fans, being open and social about their fandoms, off seasons, being forced to watch WCW in 2000, buying into WWE's ethos, and having AEW change the conversation.

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You Chose Poorly S02E05 - Typing and Teaching

K Sawyer Paul — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 01:40:01 GMT

Sawyer and Mikey talk about keyboards, life being easy, Guess Who, teaching online and during the pandemic, and new retro portable video game consoles.

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You Chose Poorly S02E03 - Cheating

K Sawyer Paul — Sat, 05 Jun 2021 22:16:49 GMT

Mikey and Sawyer talk about messing with Apple Watch data. It leads into a larger topic of cheating in video games.

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You Chose Poorly S02E02 - Follow Up -

K Sawyer Paul — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 14:30:16 GMT

Mikey and Sawyer follow up the debut episode with some more insights on their new machines, old habits and muscle memory, audio fetishization, and text files. Remember: the real fetish object is the time alone.

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You Chose Poorly S02E01 - Put More Lights in Me!

K Sawyer Paul — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 22:36:36 GMT

Mikey and Sawyer discuss new computers, if they deserve to be happy, iPhones, filling the bars, AMD & M1 vs Intel, Da Vinci Resolve, and more in the first episode of You Chose Poorly Season 2!

Apologies for the audio quality in this episode. Did we mention we got new computers and haven't quite figured it out yet?

You Chose Poorly S01E14 - season finale

K Sawyer Paul — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 18:52:00 GMT

Mikey and Sawyer cap off the first season of You Chose Poorly by talking about what comes first (hint: it's people, not products), the impossibility of buying the right camera, and when you have to turn off the "product hunt" and just deal with what you've got.

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You Chose Poorly S01E13 - Pokemon Go

K Sawyer Paul — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 13:48:00 GMT

This week, Mikey and Sawyer discuss Pokemon Go, the wisdom of avoiding never-ending video games, and how good the game might be for society. Also, a little bit of iOS 10 Beta chat at the beginning.

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You Chose Poorly S01E12 - Ebook Readers

K Sawyer Paul — Thu, 21 Jul 2016 13:42:00 GMT

In this day and age, what’s the best way to read a book? Sawyer and Mikey try to figure out why “use an ebook reader” isn’t automatically the answer.

They also talk about the ebook readers they’ve owned, and if any of them were wrong.

In this day and age, what’s the best way to read a book? Sawyer and Mikey try to figure out why “use an ebook reader” isn’t automatically the answer.

They also talk about the ebook readers they’ve owned, and if any of them were wrong.

Sawyer's ebook Readers:

Mikey's ebook readers:

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You Chose Poorly S01E11 - Photos

K Sawyer Paul — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 22:41:00 GMT

Sawyer tells a story about recommending a service that recently shut down, and this brings Mikey to the topic at hand: photos. What do you do with them? How do you trust they'll still be there if you want to see them later? How much money do you have to throw at this problem? And can there just be one place where they live (tldr: no).

Mikey's photo life:

Sawyer's photo life:

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You Chose Poorly S01E10 - Workflows

K Sawyer Paul — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 22:21:00 GMT

Is trying to get everyone on board with new workflows always a mistake? Do you just drive yourself nuts knowing the future is right there, just out of reach, while everyone else around you is fine just faxing stuff? Sawyer and Mikey begin to unpack an issue that plagues early adopters and automation enthusiasts.

Show notes and homework for next week:

You Chose Poorly S01E09 - Keynotes

K Sawyer Paul — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 22:50:00 GMT

Mikey and Sawyer talk WWDC 2016, and in the process wrestle with spending personal time watching corporate keynotes. Is it a waste of time for a regular consumer? What is it about nerdy drama that keeps us coming back? And is it about the products, the people, or the (once again) weird feeling of unearned superiority from knowing stuff faster than other people?

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You Chose Poorly S01E08 - Instant Messaging 2

K Sawyer Paul — Wed, 08 Jun 2016 22:45:00 GMT

Sawyer's apartment didn't burn down, but most of his messaging apps might as well have. This week, he and Mikey dive deeper into the strange cesspool of the psychology of messaging services.

You Chose Poorly S01E07 - Instant Messaging

K Sawyer Paul — Mon, 30 May 2016 22:27:00 GMT

Sawyer has ten messaging apps. Mikey has nine. Most everyone with a smartphone has at least five. How is this the new normal?

Also, Mikey has a new phone, and Sawyer's apartment is burning.

What Sawyer is currently using:

iMessage/SMS
Facebook Messenger
WhatsApp
Google Hangouts
Slack
Miitomo
Skype
Twitter
Instagram
Tumblr

What Mikey is currently using:

Line
Viber
WhatsApp
Facebook Messenger
Twitter
Instagram
iMessage/SMS
Slack

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You Chose Poorly S01E06 - Rdio

K Sawyer Paul — Mon, 16 May 2016 22:21:00 GMT

What happens when you fall in love with a failing music service? What do you tell the people who signed up due to your evangelism? What happens when the boat sinks? Mikey Llorin and Sawyer Paul discuss Rdio, the dead and loved online music service.

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You Chose Poorly S01E05 - TurboGrafx-16

K Sawyer Paul — Wed, 11 May 2016 22:15:00 GMT

Sawyer Paul explains how his interest in offbeat and weird technology began with being the only kid he knew with a TurboGrafx-16. Mikey Llorin makes a revelatory statement about the narcissism of going against the grain.

Note: We mention Contra a few times but we both totally meant R-Type.

You Chose Poorly S01E04 - Apple Services

K Sawyer Paul — Mon, 02 May 2016 22:06:00 GMT

Mikey Llorin and Sawyer Paul discuss Apple's quarterly results, Sawyer's iPhone 6, Apple Music, iTunes Match, Zune Pass, and whether or not it is a poor choice to put all your stuff into iCloud.

You Chose Poorly S01E03 - Palm Pre

K Sawyer Paul — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 22:04:00 GMT

Sawyer and Mikey break open the beautiful and troubled little pebble that effectively killed Palm. Also discussed: Palm Pilots, Apple lifting features from the Prē, and if there's anything to learn from Palm's demise.

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You Chose Poorly S01E02 - iPads

K Sawyer Paul — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 22:00:00 GMT

iPad. It's almost impossible to pick the "right" one, even if they're all pretty great.

Links and Show Notes:

The “right” iPads:

The "wrong" ones that Mikey owned:

iPad
“The New” (3rd Gen) iPad — Hurry up the Cakes: You had me at retina
iPad Air 1

Mikey's current iPad: iPad Pro 12.9”

Sawyer's iPad: iPad 2 (Early 2011 - Late 2012)

As of March 22, 2016, the iPad Air 2 remains Wirecutter's "Best tablet"

You Chose Poorly S01E01 – iPods

K Sawyer Paul — Mon, 11 Apr 2016 21:56:00 GMT

Mikey and Sawyer discuss a small handful of iPods, what they meant in their lives, why certain models were chosen over others, and what the iPod meant in the 2000s before ubiquitous internet music streaming.

Links

Daring Fireball: The iPod Juggernaut

iPod Photo

iPod video

Basic iPod earbuds

Steve Jobs says it again: no video iPod

Powermac g3

How lithium batteries work

iPod touch

Apple Music Event 2007: The iPod Touch Introduction

Another iPod touch deficiency: No volume buttons

iPod Nano 3rd Generation

iTunes Store launches in Phillipines June 27, 2012

Timesline of File Sharing

iPod shuffle 3rd Generation

Unboxing a Stanless Steel iPod Shuffle 3rd Gen

Steve Jobs reveals the 4th Generation iPod Shuffle