Episode 239: Starving African Child
Back to Work
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🗓️ 23 September 2015
⏱️ 109 minutes
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TOPIC: Block! Block! Body blow! Uppercut!
This week, Dan and Merlin talk less about ad-blocking and more about what kind-of feels like (but might not actually be) a point of change for web advertising, podcasting, and media as a whole, which could affect, like, everything, man.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome back today we're talking about it had blocking and how it will represent the end of literally everything |
| 0:09.2 | Good morning sir. How are you today? I'm fine. How are you pretty good pretty good close call for you |
| 0:16.4 | Uh huh with your uh almost uh being gone today. Oh oh yeah yeah uh and I'm breaking the trend because usually |
| 0:26.8 | uh when I get called for duty, jury duty, I almost always have to go in. Yes. So here's I don't know |
| 0:33.2 | Here's the thing. Here's the way this works. You're ahead jury duty. No |
| 0:37.6 | God I get it hard. I get it so heavy. You have had more jury duty than anybody else I've ever met |
| 0:45.4 | Yeah, no it's pretty remarkable actually. I've got a lot of jury duty |
| 0:49.6 | So what happens is you get this notice and it says oh get ready for this week where your life's gonna be |
| 0:53.7 | Upside down maybe |
| 0:56.4 | And then and then let you know you get a you get a note that says you know you get a call in on this Friday to find out |
| 1:01.8 | I think you need John Monday. Mm-hmm |
| 1:03.9 | And then well if you come they need you to come in on Monday basically you call every day |
| 1:09.4 | So uh I dodge the big bullet the big bullet is Friday because if they don't need John Monday |
| 1:15.1 | Like that's a really good sign and then they didn't need me today either. I celebrated. I had I made Brussels sprouts to celebrate last |
| 1:20.6 | Oh wow how do you make them? Oh |
| 1:24.4 | Brother do you really want to know? Yeah, of course sure 87 a beta 87 a oh the Marco Mike |
| 1:31.0 | Yes, and then so what I do is first of all I make a package of bacon |
| 1:35.6 | And I take it out, you know, and I you know |
| 1:39.2 | Drain it off and everything I leave some of the grease in there. I cut up two pounds |
| 1:44.0 | Quote unquote two pounds of Brussels sprouts and if you ever made Brussels sprouts, you know you throw half of it away |
| 1:49.6 | It's horrible horrible once you once you feel your Brussels sprouts you throw half of it away. Yeah |
| 1:54.0 | I should make them into a stock or put in a slurry |
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