Episode 224: Sugar Pills and a Pack of Cigarettes
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🗓️ 9 June 2015
⏱️ 112 minutes
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TOPIC: Poundsign Communication
This week, Dan and Merlin talk about evolutions in how we do and don't communicate with each other.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. Oh hi, Merlin. How are you? How's everything way up there? He's |
| 0:10.4 | out. You sound sick. Yeah. No, I feel really good. I feel awesome now. Oh my god. You sound |
| 0:17.9 | legitimately bronchial. I think I am. I think I may have an issue going on. You have what's |
| 0:26.0 | going on. I mean, you don't have to say no. I mean, I'm fine talking about it. It's not like I can |
| 0:31.6 | I'm not like I can hide it anymore. Well, how lucid are you? I feel good. I feel really good. |
| 0:40.8 | You sound like you might be wrapped in a blanket. No, no, I mean, I'm in the office, I'm in the |
| 0:45.4 | studio in the physical studio. It's a little blanket there. No, I don't have any blankets. |
| 0:51.6 | Your studio. What's going on? I haven't been following the trade. No, last week, I guess Wednesday. |
| 1:01.6 | I felt, you know, I had the so the week before, like seven days before, when I had the fever, |
| 1:11.6 | but it only lasted. It didn't. It would never went above like 99 and a half and it went |
| 1:17.0 | away the next day. But we re, we, I think we rescheduled it for a day. And then I seemed like I was kind |
| 1:21.6 | of just like run down for the rest of the week. I didn't feel really good. And then coming into |
| 1:28.1 | into last last week, I guess, around Wednesday, I get the it got worse and I felt worse. And I wasn't |
| 1:35.0 | sure if it was the same thing that my kid had had for like two weeks of coughing and my wife had |
| 1:40.0 | something where she was really congested and coughing and not feeling great. And, and then I guess |
| 1:45.9 | I got it, but because I'm kind of like pushing, burning the candle at both ends as you would say. |
| 1:53.7 | I think it, it was just too much and I got it much worse and I had a fever and it went up to like |
| 2:00.4 | one of one and I was just, oh my gosh, whole thing of just rolling in bed and just not. So I've just |
| 2:05.9 | been kind of taking it easy. And like tag, you know, we talked about establishing your baseline fever. |
| 2:10.8 | Yeah, right. You have, this is the day in adjusted fever. You're that's that's like 111 for |
| 2:15.2 | another person. Yeah, because I usually run at a cool 50 degrees Fahrenheit. You're like a |
| 2:20.4 | couple of Earl Gray. Yeah. So 97.998, even is my go to temperature. And it's it's kind of, it kind |
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