Episode 358: Dumb Ohio Mouth
Back to Work
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4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2018
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
This week, your hosts cover some odds and sods, share some recommendations, design some fantasy podcast apps, and introduce an exciting new feature involving the Internet Science Site.
They also respond to a listener's thorny question about dealing with negative chatter in the workplace.
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- Ungainly X-Mann Meetup #20 — Merlin Mann
MERLIN MANN (Back to Work, Roderick on the Line, Reconcilable Differences, Do By Friday, You Look Nice Today, et al.) invites you to drop by Two Cats Comics on the evening of Thursday, January 18th to hang out, talk about comics, and just say, “Hi.” It's free and it's fun.
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Link to your audio and web links and play them through your Amazon Echo. - Yerkes–Dodson law - Wikipedia
Research has found that different tasks require different levels of arousal for optimal performance. For example, difficult or intellectually demanding tasks may require a lower level of arousal (to facilitate concentration), whereas tasks demanding stamina or persistence may be performed better with higher levels of arousal (to increase motivation).
- Marchetti's constant - Wikipedia
Marchetti's constant is the average time spent by a person for commuting each day, which is approximately one hour.
- Ship of Theseus - Wikipedia
The ship of Theseus, also known as Theseus's paradox, is a thought experiment that raises the question of whether an object that has had all of its components replaced remains fundamentally the same object.
- Bruce Timm - Wikipedia
- Ep. 273: "One Kilometer" - Roderick on the Line - Merlin Mann
The Problem: It was the first thing that John had ever finished.
- Huffduffer
- Horace Dediu on Twitter: "Studies show that the health benefits of riding without a helmet generally outweigh the safety benefits of riding with a helmet, so if helme… https://t.co/zosIxcuwmN"
- Ditching bike helmets laws better for health
- Exploring an Alternate Universe | Lapham’s Quarterly
- John Waite - Missing You [OFFICIAL HQ VIDEO] - YouTube
- It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding) | The Official Bob Dylan Site
- Journey (2012 video game) - Wikipedia
- Amazon.com: Batman: Mad Love and Other Stories (9781401231156): Paul Dini, Bruce Timm, Various: Books
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. Hello, Captain. Hello. How are you? Left-handed. How are you? What's up? Hello, Governor. |
| 0:08.6 | Oh, what is up? Yeah. What is up? What are you doing up there? What am I even doing? |
| 0:15.8 | I'm not even doing. What is happening? Gosh. Oh my God. What? What is? Oh, oh, you |
| 0:29.5 | should try a different mic. Yeah. Do it right now. Okay. I wonder if I should try the |
| 0:37.8 | the other sure again. You're on the SMB SM7B or okay. This is the Marco suggests. Right. |
| 0:46.6 | Like 87A something like that. Is that right? Yeah. Is that a mic beta? Sounds all right. Yeah. |
| 0:54.4 | Yeah. Well, I don't know. I don't know. I want to try and mix things up a little bit. |
| 0:57.8 | You know, microphones are so subjective. It's impossible to say this is a good mic. What you can say |
| 1:07.0 | is here's the microphone's dynamic range. Here's how much gain it requires. I mean, those are the |
| 1:14.6 | facts. But my favorite mic might be the worst mic for your voice and vice versa. It's so subjective. |
| 1:24.5 | But I want to sound like a drive time DJ. I want a super compressed. Then you want to sound like |
| 1:29.4 | I'm on the radio. You want like a condenser mic with a really good sound insulation. Yeah. |
| 1:36.4 | Yeah. Press it down. Yeah. I don't know. I shouldn't mess with it. You know, if it works, |
| 1:40.6 | don't break it. You know, like they say. Yeah. Right. Yes. You know what I mean? They do say that. |
| 1:45.9 | You could probably put that in a more clever and sticky way. Yeah. Okay. I'm closing my windows. |
| 1:52.6 | I'm closing. See, I like to when I come in, I bring a 100 percent. I know. That's why we that's |
| 1:58.6 | why people listen. Thank you, man. I really try to get my focus. I either tag her. |
| 2:06.5 | So things going all right. Yeah. Things are fine. Things are good. Today's a good day so far. |
| 2:11.4 | Yeah. Yeah. Good day for us to schools back in. We survived that. We had a fantastic Jubilee. |
| 2:16.8 | Really, really good Jubilee this year and and a so far, you know, not on my stolen table. |
| 2:25.1 | It's been pretty stress-free getting back to school, which is good. Getting back in this |
| 2:29.1 | way. This is this year I got a little in a happy way. I got a little blue with the end of |
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