Episode 233: Emotional Density
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🗓️ 11 August 2015
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
TOPIC: Can I ask you a question?
This week, Dan and Merlin talk about the complexities of communicating effectively via email. They also begin to sketch out a unified field theory for escalating communication media based on informational and emotional destiny.
Also, more thoughts on The Smiths, plus some recommendations on books and comics for kids.
Links for this episode:
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- The Podcast Resurgence: Your Definitive Listening Guide - WSJ
- SUPERMAN FAMILY ADVENTURES #1 | DC Comics
- Amazon.com: Superman Family Adventures, Vol. 1 (9781401240509): Art Baltazar, Franco: Books
- The Complete Wreck (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Books 1-13): Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist: 9780061119064: Amazon.com: Books
- Harry Potter Paperback Box Set (Books 1-7): J. K. Rowling, Mary GrandPre: 9780545162074: Amazon.com: Books
- Dutch angle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Dutch angle, also known as Dutch tilt, canted angle, oblique angle or German angle, is a type of camera shot where the camera is set at an angle on its roll axis so that the shot is composed with vertical lines at an angle to the side of the frame, or so that the horizon line of the shot is not parallel with the bottom of the camera frame. - R.E.M. - Letter Never Sent - YouTube
- Reconcilable Differences - Relay FM
- Fans Petition Fox To Sell Fantastic Four Rights Back To Marvel Studios | Comicbook.com
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. |
| 0:02.0 | Oh, hello, Marlin. |
| 0:03.0 | How are you? |
| 0:04.0 | Hello, Dad. |
| 0:05.0 | How are you? |
| 0:06.0 | Hmm. |
| 0:07.0 | Hmm. |
| 0:08.0 | Lots of people have contacted us regarding the Marcy and Smith thing. |
| 0:18.6 | And I think I have never said anything more true than that statement of I can, whenever |
| 0:24.3 | I hear Marcy singing, I now only think of you. |
| 0:29.2 | Oh my God. |
| 0:30.2 | It's a good thing. |
| 0:31.2 | I mean, it's a positive. |
| 0:32.2 | No, it's not. |
| 0:33.2 | It's bad. |
| 0:34.2 | Why? |
| 0:35.2 | It's great. |
| 0:36.2 | It's an literally an international tragedy. |
| 0:37.6 | First of all, thank you to everybody. |
| 0:40.0 | Yes, we've received numerous tweets and emails from people who think that when they hear |
| 0:46.8 | Marcy, all they hear is me now, which is weird because my first of all, I'm Marcy |
| 0:49.8 | impersonation is not particularly good. |
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