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Episode 212: That Tuesday Feeling

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Business, Society & Culture, Barriers, Dan Benjamin, Careers, Communication, Merlin Mann, Creativity, Work, Productivity, Constraints, Technology

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2015

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: A lotta ins, a lotta outs, a lotta what-have-yous.

This week, Dan and Merlin are all thrown off since they're recording on a Monday. Weird, right?

They mostly talk about the respective states of comics and Apple fandom.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

God even his black widow looks like Phil Noto. This is this is awful. What a bad person.

0:07.6

Hey, Dan. Hey, so who are you talking about? Who are you looking at?

0:11.1

I don't want to name names, but I was just looking at the Tumblr and there's this guy who

0:16.9

has a style of comic art that is very very very similar to the comic artist Phil Noto. I mean, you know,

0:26.8

Phil Noto is notable for such titles as right now with the ongoing black widow. He does a lot of

0:34.6

alternate covers, but right now he's doing black widow. If you go and if you go look at Phil,

0:39.8

it just goes Google Phil Noto and you'll know his style instantly. Yeah, so this guy,

0:45.5

he draws like Phil Noto and then the crazy thing turns out Phil Noto has this distinctive way

0:49.9

of signing his things where he uses like a typewriter font at turn to 90 degrees and just says Noto.

0:56.5

This guy even signs his name the same way. Anyway, is this the show? This is a show. I mean, it could be. We could do it.

1:02.2

How are you doing, man? Pretty good. It's a it's a Monday, which is weird. Yeah.

1:07.1

Got you on Monday. Yeah, it is weird. It is weird. I think you're for doing it today.

1:11.4

And we're not gonna stream this. It's just you and me talking. Yeah, I mean, we can stream it when

1:15.0

right now the DLC show is going on, but as soon as that's done, I can hit start and people will just

1:20.3

they'll just get it. They'll just get it. But who would know to listen?

1:24.0

Well, we'll tweet it out. All right. Phil Noto.

1:28.5

Bill, you know, Phil Rosuto. He's the money store. I think so. He used to walk out. They would sort of roll him out.

1:35.8

And he'd see he'd be, uh, look, it's Phil Rosuto. Did he used to play for the Yankees?

1:43.3

Was it just a was that just a Florida thing? Was it just Florida that that had the Phil Rosuto?

1:49.0

It's one of those ads like, uh, five eight eight two three hundred empire,

1:54.7

that I associate with basic cable commercials. Yeah. I think it wasn't it. It wasn't it like they

1:59.4

would cash checks or something like that for you. Well, the name like the money store. It's

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