TOPIC: Sunrise, Sunset.

This week, Dan and Merlin celebrate their 250th episode with an extensive discussion of McDonaldland and its horrific culture and citizenry.

The main topic addresses the ““sunsetting”” of the Mailbox iOS app—and what it highlights about deciding where to put our stuff, what apps we choose to use, and what contingency plans it's probably wise to have in place.

Links for this episode:

• Saying goodbye to Carousel and Mailbox | | Dropbox Blog
  
• Dropbox Kills Mailbox, an App It Bought for $100M | WIRED
  
• Upgrade #66: Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good Apps? - Relay FM
  
• Crazy Walls
  
• Our Incredible Journey
  Putting the ack! in acquihire
  
• Phil Gyford (@philgyford) | Twitter
  
• Top Scallops - Top Chef Podcast
  
• Ep. 182: "House Trotter" - Roderick on the Line - Merlin Mann
  
• You Look Nice Today - "Parlor Parlor" (XOXO 2015) on Vimeo
  Recorded live on stage at XOXO Fest in Portland, Oregon in September, 2015.
  
• Coulrophobia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  A specific fear of clowns has sometimes been discussed in terms of a specific phobia.
  
• McDonald's Relaunches New, Grown-Up Hamburglar Mascot
  
• Why? by They Might Be Giants on Spotify
  
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps - YouTube
  
• Maps (Yeah Yeah Yeahs song) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  She explains: "They were real tears. My boyfriend at the time [Angus Andrew] was supposed to come to the shoot – he was three hours late and I was just about to leave for tour. I didn't think he was even going to come and this was the song that was written for him. He eventually showed up and I got myself in a real emotional state."
  
• Ted Leo - Since U Been Gone / Maps - YouTube
  
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps [Acoustic][Sessions@AOL] - YouTube
  
• 5by5 | The Frequency #82: A Road Paved in Bones
  
• The Chicken and the Pig - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• List of mergers and acquisitions by Google - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• List of McDonald's characters - McDonald's Wiki - Wikia
  This is the list of McDonald's characters that appeared in McDonaldland commercials, merchandise, or other media related to its franchise.
  
• Hamburglar - McDonald's Wiki - Wikia
  He was revised in 1985, when his look changed from a trollish old man to a red-head Dennis the Menace-type child who spoke and wore a shorter-brimmed hat and a black cape with yellow on the inside.
  
• Fagin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  In the preface to the novel he is described as a "receiver of stolen goods", but within the text he is more frequently identified as the "merry old gentleman" or simply "the Jew."
  
• Japanese McDonald's Ad - YouTube
  
• This Photo Of The Original Ronald McDonald Will Give You Nightmares
  
• Creepy First Ronald McDonald Commercial Featuring Willard Scott | Village Voice
  
• Barry Manilow - BarryNet - His Music - Commercial Jingles
  Barry Manilow performed or co-wrote a number of commercial jingles early in his career, most notably the following:
  
• Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Ted Leo - Biomusicology - YouTube
  
• Ted Leo - Parallel Or Together? - YouTube
  
• School House Rock -The Preamble - YouTube
  
• Ed Gein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  His crimes, committed around his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin, gathered widespread notoriety after authorities discovered Gein had exhumed corpses from local graveyards and fashioned trophies and keepsakes from their bones and skin.
  
• Collyer brothers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Homer Lusk Collyer (November 6, 1881 – March 21, 1947) and Langley Wakeman Collyer (October 3, 1885 – c. March 9, 1947), known as the Collyer brothers, were two American brothers who became infamous for their bizarre natures and compulsive hoarding.
  
• Shark Tank - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Easy Com-mercial, Easy Go-mercial - Bob's Burgers Wiki - Wikia
  

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