Episode 349: The Kid Who Never Won Anything
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4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2017
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
TOPIC: Trials, Trophies, and Trying Harder.
This week, the boys arrive from either the past or future to talk about Dan's spoon problem, the refuse racket, the slog of incremental improvement, the perils of black and white thinking, folding paper seven times, and Dan’s mad cart-riding skills.
This leads to this week’s main topic: an epic exploration of success and failure. No spoilers, but this is a good one.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. |
| 0:02.0 | Hello, Merlin. How are you? |
| 0:04.0 | I'm very well. Good afternoon to you, Dan. |
| 0:07.0 | Good afternoon to you. |
| 0:09.0 | Good afternoon. We're speaking to you from the past, from the future. |
| 0:12.0 | From the future. |
| 0:14.0 | From, is it the future of the past? |
| 0:16.0 | Yes. |
| 0:17.0 | I think yes. |
| 0:18.0 | Yes, it is. |
| 0:19.0 | It is the future of the past. |
| 0:20.0 | We're the wabby, timey, whimy. |
| 0:22.0 | Mmm. |
| 0:23.0 | Mmm. |
| 0:24.0 | Mmm. |
| 0:25.0 | Mmm. |
| 0:26.0 | Oh, boy. |
| 0:28.0 | It feels good. It feels good to be in this limbo. |
| 0:31.0 | It feels just back back in the New York groove. |
| 0:33.0 | Oh, we, uh, spent a big week. |
| 0:37.0 | Huge week. |
| 0:38.0 | It's been a huge week. |
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