Episode 34: Rectangular Door Conspiracy
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🗓️ 20 September 2011
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
How to say "no."
Merlin talks with Dan about saying No to toilet paper diamonds, mints on pillows, and things you don't have the wallet for instead of saying Yes to a crate of bananas you don't have enough information about or giving a qualified Yes to planning Christmas parties you don't have any interest in.
Links for this episode:
- THE SHINING (1979) analysis by Rob Ager
- Amazon.com: Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy (9780385531733): Martin Lindstrom: Books
- 5by5 | Hypercritical #34: Pride in Craftsmanship
- Cognitive dissonance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- How Whole Foods "Primes" You To Shop | Fast Company
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is a barley cornstake with peppercorn side gluing. If I slip, lives are in the balance. |
| 0:08.5 | Hello, I'm Erlin. I'm Dan. |
| 0:12.6 | How are you? I'm pretty good, how are you? Pretty good, you want to button this up? |
| 0:17.1 | I love you. I love you too. How many people would just love it if that was the whole show? |
| 0:22.4 | We should release that and then do a bonus episode. So I'm really glad you stopped talking about |
| 0:28.2 | things. You got a lot of feedback on that, didn't we? |
| 0:32.9 | An email? Yes. I don't understand someone Twitter also. |
| 0:37.7 | Well, you tell me what people send an email. What I read on Twitter is a lot of people like it. |
| 0:42.9 | Yeah, that's just that's what I heard. That's because people with kids know how to use Twitter. |
| 0:47.9 | People with cats use email. That was, I think I was craft edbing first discovered that |
| 0:54.4 | and the 40s or the 1700s how to look it up. No, I would not mind breaking that off. I don't know |
| 1:02.4 | if that's interesting just as a topic. It's pretty broad. I'm being a contrarian because that's |
| 1:12.2 | what I do. I totally understand how annoying that is. I felt the same way, but it might get a little |
| 1:18.0 | old. What do you think? There's, god damn, there's so much. Daddy, |
| 1:23.2 | food, and mommy bar out there, right? There is. You're not doing it. Baby bat. |
| 1:32.9 | I think I just made a blogging joke, a parenting joke, and potentially a programming joke. All |
| 1:36.9 | in the same. Extremely not funny joke. I think you need more shows. Apparently you need a lot |
| 1:43.7 | more shows. You're not doing enough shows. Here's the thing. If you chase two rabbits, they will |
| 1:47.2 | both escape. You should write that down. I know a kid named Chase when I was working at |
| 1:54.3 | public. I know that name. Chase, Chase, Chase Reeves is on the internet. I know a chase. Chase is |
| 1:58.3 | a pretty good name. That's a good name. Not as good as cash. If we had had a second boy, |
| 2:03.6 | if our second kid had been a boy, I had an agreement with my wife of standing, standing agreement |
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