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The Xbox Nearly Destroyed Him - EP 87 Seamus Blackley

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This episode is nerd catnip unlike anything I’ve ever seen before.

Ashlee sat down with Seamus Blackley, who you might know as the man who talked Microsoft into building the Xbox. Nowadays, you can find Blackley in a Pasadena laboratory making the world’s best chocolate. If you’re just here for the cacao, well, we did a video on it.

Blackley grew up in rural New Mexico and studied electrical…