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CultCast #300 - Incredible extravagance of the Steve Jobs Theater

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• On Tuesday, September 12th, according to Bloomberg, will unveil not only its latest batch of products, but also give us all a first glimpse of its brand new campus
• The Steve Jobs Theater is as obsessively perfect as you’d expect a building named after Apple’s co-founder and former CEO should be.
• The entrance to the venue sits underneath a silver disc, which which sits 20 feet in the air, supported by gigantic glass panels.
• The auditorium itself occupies four underground stories, and to get there, journalists will descend a staircase spiraling down alongside the walls.
• In order to gain access to the subterranean theater, attendees can either descend via a spiral staircase or using two custom elevators. These elevators rotate as they descend, so that passengers enter and exit through the same door, even though they do so from different directions.
• The theater also sports a retracting wall, which opens to reveal a hidden product testing area.
• Given the theater's 1,000-person capacity, one engineer said back in March that the building's budget meant each leather seat had cost Apple the equivalent of $14,000 apiece.
• It’s a touching eponym, isn’t it?  Steve Jobs theater?  It will be

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