Episode 33: The Hypocrite You Can Live With
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🗓️ 13 September 2011
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin have a totally natural emotional reaction to the unreasonable demands they place on themselves after reading The Spongebob Report. Maybe they wouldn't have offended non-ex-Marines if they had just taken some time and consulted their Manager of Expectations.
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- Is SpongeBob SquarePants Bad for Children? - NYTimes.com
- kung fu grippe - ["the visual equivalent of being told you’re eating human flesh"]
- Macramé - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Guided by Voices - Game of Pricks (Amoeba Records) - YouTube
- Ashton Kutcher's Lady in Her Panties
- Hypercritical #33 [Jay-Sir on Markdown and why he doesn't use it]
- Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science - Magazine - The Atlantic
- snopes.com: Microwaving Plastic Releases Cancer-Causing Agents
- FAQs: Using Plastics in the Microwave
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- Caillou: Games, Coloring and Activities | PBS KIDS
- Designing With Web Standards, 3rd Edition
- Won’t somebody please think of the gerbils? [dive into mark]
- Blueprint: A CSS Framework | Spend your time innovating, not replicating
- The Effects of Fast-Paced Cartoons
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- Dorf on Golf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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- Build and Analyze #42 [Dan explains 'The Double Speed Bit']
- Don Draper: "No. You do not 'COVER' for me; you MANAGE people's expectations."
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good week. |
| 0:03.0 | Oh, big week. |
| 0:04.2 | Huge week. |
| 0:05.0 | Big week here. |
| 0:06.0 | Okay, here's the thing. |
| 0:07.6 | Before I'm gonna call it the pre-faith era. |
| 0:09.7 | It's the, the anti-faith, anti-withan-e, |
| 0:13.6 | not like your uncle's wife. |
| 0:15.3 | No offense. |
| 0:16.1 | Anti. |
| 0:17.0 | Sorry, or as you say, data. |
| 0:18.6 | And so you got that one twice. |
| 0:21.2 | Yeah, he did twice. |
| 0:22.0 | It was planning as a bit of thing now. |
| 0:24.0 | Also, I never heard you explain a bit before. |
| 0:25.7 | That was funny too. |
| 0:26.6 | I had to. |
| 0:27.4 | I had to because I was getting, |
| 0:29.2 | faith was on the receiving end of a lot of condolences, |
| 0:33.1 | a lot of apologies on behalf of me |
| 0:35.4 | and other things like that. |
| 0:38.0 | Talking about, oh, let's, let's, let's run back to this. |
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