Episode 284: Wake Up, Van Hœt
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🗓️ 9 August 2016
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
This week, Dan and Merlin open with an unintentionally deep dive on how Merlin has been tricking out his house with home automation stuff.
The main topic this week returns to the theme of updates; in this case, how ubiquitous devices have changed pretty much everything.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. |
| 0:01.7 | Hello, how are you? |
| 0:02.7 | Thank you, young great Dan, how are you? |
| 0:04.7 | Doing good, good, good, pretty good. |
| 0:07.1 | Doing good, it's a beautiful calm, dry, clear, humid, |
| 0:12.6 | seasonable morning and summer's this go. |
| 0:14.2 | Yeah, you know, my kind of day. |
| 0:17.2 | I complain but who'd listen? |
| 0:18.8 | Nice. |
| 0:19.8 | Nice. |
| 0:20.8 | I got the humidifiers now, so everything's changed for me. |
| 0:23.8 | The humidifiers. |
| 0:24.8 | The humidifiers, yeah. |
| 0:26.3 | It's very humid here. |
| 0:28.1 | Man wants to control his environment. |
| 0:31.2 | You know, it's really nice. |
| 0:32.2 | You put it in the bathroom after I said showers and it drives everything out. |
| 0:35.2 | Everything, drives everything out. |
| 0:36.2 | You get down to like, you get into the thirties in relative humidity. |
| 0:40.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:41.0 | It's outstanding. |
| 0:42.0 | I mean, is that, do you have that clocked? |
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