March 22, 2008
The March 22 show moves from consumer advocacy to professional philosophy and then into one unforgettable story. Dr. Dave sees Sony reverse a proposed fee after immediate customer criticism and takes it as evidence that ordinary people can make the market more responsive. During the CorelDRAW interview, he returns to his 80-20 principle: an artist's job is to create the work, not become a software expert, so a professional tool should help someone move from zero to finished efficiently. The brothers also preserve a small but important piece of website history when they say the imagery on DaveMason.com was made in CorelDRAW. Helping a caller prepare to replace Vista, Dr. Dave insists on recovery discs and saved drivers because a person should always have a way back; later, he vividly retells the story of a friend who stood his ground before a charging African bull elephant.
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