172: ‘Holiday Party’ With Merlin Mann

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

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3.6 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2016

⏱️ 127 minutes

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Summary

Merlin Mann returns to the show to discuss the election, by which I mean we mostly talk *around* the election. I hope we never do another show again with such heavy hearts, but whatever you think about this election, I think you'll like this show.

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0:00.0	And a heck of a day.
0:02.0	I had a very interesting 30 hours.
0:07.0	Yesterday morning we woke up early.
0:12.0	I knew I had jury duty at the Spiracourt.
0:15.0	Wow.
0:16.0	Yeah, yeah.
0:17.0	And on voting day.
0:19.0	I only found out finally yesterday that I'm registered under two addresses and basically
0:24.0	that's why I get called constantly.
0:27.0	And I'm jury crack.
0:28.0	I always get called.
0:29.0	I always get picked.
0:31.0	And no matter what I say, they're like, that's great.
0:33.0	We could really use you.
0:34.0	So, and in this case, Spiracourt, oh my god, what's it going to be?
0:37.0	Long story short, we get up early.
0:39.0	The three of us go to the polling station.
0:41.0	My daughter drops in the ballot for Hillary Clinton.
0:46.0	I go to jury duty.
0:47.0	I narrowly, narrowly avoid a multi-month attempted murder.
0:53.0	Jury duty.
0:55.0	I'm literally rocking in my seat and making this noise.
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