Episode 290: Table Scraps for Cable Cutters
Back to Work
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4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2016
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
TOPIC: Nobody's favorite thing.
This week, Dan and Merlin talk about update failures, magic, and attention.
Their ongoing dive into the fractured and frustrating world of the modern cord-cutter ecosystem continues.
It's ponderous.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. Hello. How are you? Good afternoon. I'm very well. How are you? Pretty good. Pretty good. Hello. |
| 0:10.2 | I can't believe we're adding yet another character to the Hello Pantheon. There are a lot. How many are |
| 0:14.4 | there in total? Well, you know, I'm not sure Hello Facts is currently that different from |
| 0:20.0 | my Burial. Yeah. They share a common like ancestor. Well, let me take a minute here. I haven't prepared |
| 0:26.3 | for this. You get Hello. Well, actually, there's my Hello. And then you get the Heidi Klun, which is Hello. |
| 0:34.2 | And then I think library library library of is Hello. A little more sort of enthusiasm and |
| 0:41.3 | you still a little little little dramatic. Yeah. Hello. And then what's what's Hello Facts? Hello. |
| 0:48.0 | I think Hello is a very funny word. Hello. And then it's self. It's funny. It is funny. It's |
| 0:56.4 | funny. It's funny. Word. And great. And great. Has very funny uses of the word Hello. Hello. |
| 1:02.4 | Yeah. Yeah. It's a humid humid wet morning in San Francisco. Wet wet wet wet. I'm doing more |
| 1:11.3 | experiments with the silica packets. Oh, in order to still try and resurrect the old. I don't know. |
| 1:17.6 | No, no, no. Oh, dear, no, no. Oh, I hope is the thing with silica packets as Emily Dickinson said, |
| 1:24.0 | I, no, no, I tried and I kept it in there. It's been in there for, I guess, almost two weeks. |
| 1:31.2 | Can I take it out periodically? No, it's done then. That sucks. But my daughter accidentally |
| 1:37.2 | stepped into a creek this weekend. And so I've been drying out her pizza shoes and she's got vans |
| 1:42.0 | with pizzas on them. And I've been trying that. And it hasn't been working that great. As you |
| 1:46.4 | know, I'm a humidity nerd. So I put it in the bathroom with the dehumidifier. We'll see if that helps. |
| 1:51.6 | But then I mentally calculated what I've spent on silica packets and they're about half the cost |
| 1:55.6 | of the shoes. Do you think it would survive like a trip through the dryer? They did. |
| 2:01.4 | Auntie Susie put them through the dryer and then they didn't she went in the creek again accidentally. |
| 2:05.4 | Oh, no. Yeah, no, it's all right. It's okay. You know, it's a shoes are for. You know, |
| 2:10.6 | ships are safest in the harbor, but that's not what they were built for. Right. |
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