Episode 357: Scrolling Carousel of Pain
Back to Work
5by5
4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2018
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
This week, Dan and Merlin talk about why they're trending, an exciting update on the Mr. Robot ATV bug, the frustrating opacity of using Apple's stuff, Dan's love for Nintendo Switch, nostalgia for NASA, Merlin's love for the Amazon Spot, the problem of fish food and regret, updates on your hosts' sleep technologies, possible solutions for killing spam on iPhone, and some more thoughts on dealing with Netflix's filtering, ratings, and…jeez kinda just everything about their dingaling interface.
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My heart races as that familiar bubble pops up on my screen. My supervisor is typing for what seems like forever. In reality, it’s only a few seconds, but that’s still enough time for me to fall into a full-on worry spiral: Did I make a mistake? Is she mad at me? Finally, the text message appears: “Thank you.”
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@hotdogsladies Back to Work made it into the bug report on the Mr Robot problem! And it's fixed! Maybe you heard already. Catching up on my B2W eps atm and heard you talking about it in Dec 19 show.
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- Introducing Echo Spot - Amazon Official Site - Stylish, compact Echo with a screen
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- Nintendo Entertainment System - Wikipedia
- Amazon.com: Nintendo Switch with Joy-Con Pick You Own System Bundle Options: Edition, Color, Games, Extra Controller, Case: Nintendo: Video Games
- Amazon.com: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Nintendo Switch: Video Games
- Apple Will Replace the Battery in Your iPhone 6 or Later Even if It Passes a Genius Bar Diagnostic Test - Mac Rumors
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | hello hey marlin hi dan how are you i'm doing good how are you who freaking out a |
| 0:07.1 | little bit what's going on what happened well i went and i looked at the |
| 0:10.9 | twitter machine uh... and uh... i was on the website because i'm a monster |
| 0:16.1 | yes and uh... go look at the twitter and you can see uh... that that that's the |
| 0:21.9 | the top trending things on the trend there |
| 0:25.4 | okay |
| 0:26.4 | pound signback to work |
| 0:29.0 | all of that that's all about the show |
| 0:32.3 | for now right now thirty two thousand tweets about the show |
| 0:36.0 | people are very very excited about our program now |
| 0:38.4 | this is gonna mean something i think for our future here is a huge and finally |
| 0:42.4 | gonna help us out thirty eight thousand merlin thirty eight point three my |
| 0:46.1 | friend oh my god we're gonna finally take a piece out of that bill clinton |
| 0:49.4 | character |
| 0:50.2 | this is the god damn book i know i'm sick of it |
| 0:53.2 | say that he screwed up he screwed up right when our show was really catching on |
| 0:56.4 | fire we've done way more than three episodes |
| 0:59.1 | that didn't like that book up back to work and break |
| 1:02.2 | do your research sir |
| 1:05.4 | well the lawyers the lawyers are still working on our on our case so we'll |
| 1:09.6 | we'll see if we get it oh gosh it's a very litigious society we live in |
| 1:13.4 | down |
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