143: ‘A Squirrel Eating a Duck’ With Merlin Mann

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

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3.6 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2016

⏱️ 168 minutes

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Summary

Merlin Mann returns to the show. Topics include Winter Storm Jonas, the politics of sick kids, sweating out a fever, people going insane over the rumors that the next iPhones will omit the standard headphone jack, the seven-hour *The Godfather Epic*, and more.

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0:00.0	I'm a really great, I'm in a great mood.
0:25.4	You're kidding.
0:26.4	I'm in a particularly good mood.
0:27.4	I'm so glad.
0:28.4	You're not worried?
0:29.4	You're talking about the snowpocalypse, right?
0:32.4	Yeah, right.
0:33.4	The Joan Astrophie.
0:35.4	Yeah, what do they call it?
0:38.2	Winter Storm Jonas, which is obviously a big point of conversation here at the Gruber
0:44.1	Household.
0:46.1	Jonas is a bit impressed.
0:49.0	He's excited.
0:50.0	He's like a hashtag on Twitter now.
0:53.1	So he's very excited about that.
0:54.7	Your son is trending.
0:56.2	He is disappointed and slightly embarrassed by the fact that this is a big storm that
1:03.6	is coming on a Friday night, which is the worst possible time for a storm to hit in terms
1:10.8	of maybe getting a day off of school.
1:13.2	You could not possibly be worst time.
1:18.8	Like there was no conversation whatsoever about canceling school today in advance of
1:24.4	the snowstorm because they're so certain of when it that is not going to come until
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