Just days after CNN host Kyra Phillips forgot to turn off her microphone and was heard on-the-air in the bathroom, a recording of Apple CEO Steve Jobs in the bathroom at WWDC has surfaced.
Sources on the sound crew at WWDC forwarded to Crazy Apple Rumors Site a recording of a conversation between Jobs and Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller – which apparently took place just after the keynote – in the Moscone Center men’s room.
JOBS: [Whistling what sounds like John Lennon’s Imagine.]
[Sound of the bathroom door opening.]
SCHILLER: Steve!
JOBS: Oh! Hi, Phil.
[The sound of a zipper being opened]
SCHILLER: Good… good keynote!
JOBS: Yeah? You think? I thought it might have been a little… flat.
SCHILLER: Oh, no! No! No. No. Well… no. We killed ’em with the iChat bit.
JOBS: Heh. Yeah. Yeah.
SCHILLER: Heh-heh. Yeaaaaaah.
[A prolonged silence followed by more whistling.]
JOBS: Sooo…
SCHILLER: Sooo…
JOBS: Uh… see that… game… last night?
SCHILLER: Uh, hockey doesn’t start until October.
JOBS: Oh. Isn’t there… baseball or something?
SCHILLER: Nyeah, but the Sox are…
JOBS: The… Sox?
SCHILLER: The Red Sox.
JOBS: Oh. I’ve heard of them. I like that Damon guy.
SCHILLER: Uh… yeah. He’s, um… not… well. Yeah.
[A prolonged silence followed by more whistling.]
SCHILLER: I’m just realizing this but… we’ve never… been in the bathroom at the same time before.
JOBS: No. I guess you’re right.
SCHILLER: How is that possible? We’ve been working together for a long time.
JOBS: Well, I don’t go to the bathroom at Apple.
SCHILLER: You… don’t…
JOBS: No. I find that if I have a full bladder, I work better. I have a bigger sense of urgency in everything I do.
SCHILLER: Oh. Wow. That’s… that’s cool. Sort of twisted zen kind of thing. Maybe I should try…
JOBS: I’m so messing with you.
SCHILLER: Wha… Oh! Ha-ha! Ahhh, you got me!
JOBS: Yeah. I don’t really do that.
[A prolonged silence followed by more whistling.]
SCHILLER: So, what’s the deal with [VP of platform experience Scott] Forstall?
JOBS: The… deal?
SCHILLER: Yeah. Kind of an attitude problem.
JOBS: Oh. I hadn’t noticed.
SCHILLER: Yeah, I was talking about it with Peter.
JOBS: Hmm, well, I haven’t experienced that. I did notice he smells like feet.
SCHILLER: Oh. My. God! What is that?!
JOBS: I’m guessing it’s his feet.
SCHILLER: Oh, man, I hope so!
JOBS: Ha-ha!
SCHILLER: Ha-ha!
[The sound of a bathroom stall opening followed by sharp footsteps.]
FORSTALL: I have a condition!
[Sharp footsteps followed by the sound of the bathroom door opening then closing.]
SCHILLER: Did you see that?
JOBS: I did.
SCHILLER: He didn’t wash his hands.
JOBS: Tsk.
SCHILLER: Tsk. And on top of that, he’s got an attitude problem.
JOBS: Yeah, I heard that. Oh… hey… wait a minute. Is this microphone still on?
You know, I often feel compelled to provide some kind of analysis for these transcripts but I’m just never sure where to go.