Episode 123: I Want to See Your Face the Whole Time (LIVE)
Back to Work
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4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2013
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
TOPIC: First Meeting, Gifts, and Grifts
This week—after 122 episodes, plus almost a decade of internet pal-dom—Dan and Merlin finally meet and record in a room together for the first time.
With only passing nods to the nominal topic of "gifts," Dan and Merlin mostly get to know each other.
Why is Dan staring so penetratingly at Merlin? Does Dan think Merlin is fat as well as old? Why does Dan keep looking at his phone? Does that look clean to you? Whose show is it, really? Is John Siracusa slender or sickly? Why can't I show you the sole of my shoe? Should we stand up? Who am I thinking of? Is it hot in here or is it just me? Which one am I?
Also, bathrooms.
Inarguably, a Very Important Episode™.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | One goes to the East Bay under the thing, under the hood, out, |
| 0:03.2 | hood, I, I, I, can't, I understand everything. |
| 0:05.9 | You want to explain what's going on here? |
| 0:08.7 | This is the show, what do you mean what's going on? |
| 0:11.0 | Well, nothing different. |
| 0:12.1 | Well, it's a little different. |
| 0:13.4 | I like looking at you. |
| 0:14.4 | Okay, it's super weird. |
| 0:15.4 | I'm not going to look at you, because it's really weird. |
| 0:16.6 | I have to look at you the whole time, right now. |
| 0:18.6 | I want to see your face the whole time. |
| 0:21.0 | That sounds like something you would say to somebody. |
| 0:23.5 | Never mind. |
| 0:24.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:25.1 | It's nice, Dan, we're in the same room. |
| 0:27.0 | I don't know if you know that. |
| 0:27.8 | I'm going to take your photograph. |
| 0:28.6 | We're in the same room. |
| 0:29.5 | We are in the same room. |
| 0:30.5 | We're literally in the same room. |
| 0:31.5 | I'm trying not to distort. |
| 0:32.5 | And that we are in the Macworld studios in San Frans. |
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