Episode 258: Means of Egress
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🗓️ 9 February 2016
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
TOPIC: Feelings, Slide Rules, and The Franklin Test
This week Merlin hasn't had enough coffee and may have early-onset toxoplasmosis, so he and Dan respond to great feedback from listeners, mostly on feeling feelings.
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| 0:00.0 | Don't be a jerk said his older brother. I know what to do said his father to his mother |
| 0:07.9 | Hello good mollings sir good mollin dad. How are you doing well doing well doing well by doing good? |
| 0:17.1 | I don't know what the deal is with this this fake accent. I like it. I like it more every week |
| 0:21.7 | I don't know it's awful. What is it? What is it? What what am I supposed to be am I like John houseman? What am I? |
| 0:26.1 | barriers outside communication? I like it. Do left. Do left. I look to your right now. Stop looking in other places. Look at me |
| 0:36.4 | And it reminds me of the the thing my driving instructor said to me look left go left |
| 0:43.4 | Hmm. Don't know what it means. You lead with your eyes. You also eat first with your eyes |
| 0:52.4 | This one sees salty |
| 0:56.4 | Oh my eyes. How was the super how was the Super Bowl up there? |
| 1:00.9 | How was how was the game the event the impact yeah? Yeah, all good yeah five by five |
| 1:08.1 | Big wins everybody's happy. Yes, bud light to lose any money on the game |
| 1:15.4 | Just my soul just your soul just my soul. Yeah, I had to soul it three to two |
| 1:19.9 | I don't know what that means I I watched most of the game. I watched a lot of the game |
| 1:25.7 | Yeah, it's been it's had quite an impact. Excuse me a little bit of horse. I'm a pony. I'm a tiny horse. I'm a tiny one |
| 1:30.7 | I just bought I bought my little girl a little horse today |
| 1:34.6 | Like a humanity horse. No, it doesn't move or anything. It's a bread bread or a prayer horse a prayer horse |
| 1:40.5 | I think it's like a donkey like a donkey horse. It's a hold on it says |
| 1:45.7 | It's a it's a you know, it's a little it's a little prayer. It's it's one of those horses that some |
| 1:50.9 | Looks very realistic, but it's frozen in a single position for all eternity. I know what you mean. It's a high quality horse |
| 1:56.9 | Yeah, yeah, I've seen those they come in the government bins |
| 1:59.9 | Did they oh, oh those are different. Okay. This is this is a bespoke prayer. Braille is a higher end than the I think the |
| 2:07.7 | Shlake shlake shlake. Oh, I was thinking the shleg. Yeah, I was thinking the shleg bins |
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