Episode 354: One Whale
Back to Work
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4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2017
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
This week, Dan and Merlin talk about (partial) resolution to Dan's Apple TV bug, some venting about delivery problems, general complaining about customer service, a good TV podcast episode, a very good Buddhism podcast episode, some excellent Buddhism talk, listener follow-up on Dan's strange video mail package, shakeups and wild innovation in the TV bidness, that creepy/mean Netflix tweet, and a listener's question about whether the tech requirements at a promising new job should be a deal-breaker.
Links for this episode:
- Chapo Trap House | Free Listening on SoundCloud
- What Buddhism got right about the human brain — The Ezra Klein Show — Overcast
- Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment: Robert Wright: 9781439195451: Amazon.com: Books
- The Best TV of 2017 With Sam Esmail (Ep. 210) — The Watch — Overcast
The Ringer’s Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald are joined for their annual best TV of 2017 discussion with ‘Mr. Robot’ creator Sam Esmail. They cover what they are looking from their own television experience, this year in television (2:00), and their top-10 favorite shows of the year, including ‘Game of Thrones,’ ‘Mindhunter,’ ‘Handmaid’s Tale,’ and more (14:00).save in overcast
- Verizon, NFL agree to new 5-year deal worth nearly $2.5 billion
- Comcast continues to inject its own code into websites you visit
- You Are Two - YouTube
- Netflix US on Twitter: "To the 53 people who've watched A Christmas Prince every day for the past 18 days: Who hurt you?"
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. |
| 0:02.0 | Hey, Merlin, how are you? |
| 0:03.3 | I'm very well, Dan. How are you? |
| 0:04.6 | I'm doing all right. |
| 0:05.8 | I'll look at that. You got to tweet out about this. I'll retweet it. |
| 0:11.2 | Retweet to followers. |
| 0:13.6 | I've retweeted. I've told people that we're recording a program. |
| 0:16.4 | Good. Ah, December 12th. How does it happen? |
| 0:19.7 | Yeah, really. |
| 0:21.2 | Jim, any Christmas. Ah, |
| 0:23.8 | you doing all right? Yeah, I'm pretty good. What's uh, |
| 0:27.0 | what's it like up there? It's nice. It's very pleasant. |
| 0:29.9 | Let me see what the watch says. It's 59 degrees, which is perfect. |
| 0:34.6 | That's my kind of weather. I got three, three layers. |
| 0:39.5 | Feeling pretty good. Do wear a hat. |
| 0:42.6 | I can't wear a hat when I got my cans on. |
| 0:45.3 | Oh, yeah. You know, because we get what they call bleed. |
| 0:49.0 | I would wear a hat all the time because believe it or not, |
| 0:52.6 | I'm overdue for a haircut again. |
| 0:55.4 | You know, I was thinking about that. How much difference it makes when you wear a hat? |
| 1:02.9 | You know, bleed is an issue. You got to really get those cans on tight. |
| 1:06.6 | And that'd be too loud. Oh, I was talking about for the, for the warmth. |
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