Episode 235: This is a Thing
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4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2015
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
TOPIC: Losing hit points.
This week, Dan and Merlin talk about the stuff you have to do to stay healthy and well—and the rocky path to realizing when you have to actually "make it a thing."
There's also some follow-up on OTA antennas, car keys, and how little most of us really understand about the media industries.
Links for this episode:
- Ungainly X-Mann Meetup #10 — Merlin Mann
- Strandpromenade / By the seaside Ringtone iOS LOOP 10 Min - YouTube
- Sutro Tower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sutro Tower is a 297.8 m (977 ft) three-pronged antenna tower near Clarendon Heights in San Francisco, California. Rising from a hill between Twin Peaks and Mount Sutro, it is a prominent part of the city skyline and a landmark for city residents and visitors. - Nalgene | The original water bottle. Made in the USA. BPA Free.
- Amazon.com | Thermos 12 Ounce Funtainer Bottle, Pink: Thermos For Kids: Pasta Bowls
- Amazon.com | Thermos 12 Ounce Funtainer Bottle, Batman: Pasta Bowls
- Lumberjanes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Nimona: Noelle Stevenson: 9780062278227: Amazon.com: Books
- Noelle Stevenson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Harry Houdini - The Death of Harry Houdini
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. |
| 0:02.0 | Good morning. |
| 0:03.0 | Good morning, Dan. |
| 0:04.0 | How are you? |
| 0:05.0 | I am doing quite well. |
| 0:07.0 | Ah. |
| 0:08.0 | How about you? |
| 0:11.0 | How's everything? |
| 0:12.0 | How's it going all right? |
| 0:13.0 | I had, um, having a, having a, uh, iced coffee. |
| 0:18.0 | Boistings are good. |
| 0:20.0 | It's warm out there in San Francisco. |
| 0:22.0 | Sure. |
| 0:23.0 | You, uh, you get these from the Whole Foods and it's 10.66 fluid ounces of blue bottle coffee. |
| 0:29.0 | New Orleans iced coffee. |
| 0:31.0 | Oh, I know. |
| 0:32.0 | You know, like, like a little thing your kid would drink milk out of. |
| 0:34.0 | You know, like a little thing. |
| 0:36.0 | Are you supposed to dilute it with regular water or do you drink it just as it comes? |
| 0:39.0 | Like you're just supposed to drink it. |
| 0:41.0 | Okay. |
| 0:42.0 | I mean, you could, you could do lots of stuff with it. |
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