Episode 368: Call the Mouse Guy
Back to Work
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4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2018
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
This week, your hosts discuss Steely Dan, digital mastering, The Police, Dune, high-quality VCRs, and Dan's brother-in-law's close call.
Next, they dive into a fascinating article on why projects fail.
Finally, the boys respond to a listener's question about cautious workplace enthusiasm.
Links for this episode:
- The meaning of snafu, clusterfuck, and shitshow: There's a difference — Quartz at Work
- SPARS code - Wikipedia
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. |
| 0:02.0 | Oh, hi, Marlin. How are you? |
| 0:04.0 | I'm very good. You seem at peace. |
| 0:06.0 | Well, there's a new fart in the app called Skype. |
| 0:12.0 | Oh, yeah. What is it doing? |
| 0:14.0 | You should be aware of, I verified this with some other people. For some reason, this is not interesting. |
| 0:21.0 | But for some reason, recently, Call Recorder misses the first at least one or two seconds. |
| 0:27.0 | Oh, yeah. No, it's been doing that for a long time because when you send me your end, it always is missing your hello. |
| 0:34.0 | So I have to grab the hello from the end that I record from you and then and then drop it onto the yeah. |
| 0:40.0 | Three, two, hello. |
| 0:46.0 | Keep it all in. |
| 0:48.0 | Yeah. But it's very upsetting for people who listen to the Rottergawn Line Podcast because we have a certain way that the show usually begins. |
| 0:55.0 | And it's been, it's it seemed first because it wasn't right. |
| 1:00.0 | Right, right, right, you're going to have to like count them in now or something. |
| 1:03.0 | Yeah, well, you know, whatever's in the shows in the show that's what you said. |
| 1:06.0 | Let's listen to our curse, Dan. Yeah. |
| 1:08.0 | Did you took this out? |
| 1:10.0 | I probably can do. I could do that. |
| 1:11.0 | We need to do it. |
| 1:13.0 | Can I tell you the reason? Don't even, Sub for Goffers. |
| 1:18.0 | Okay, I'm going to close that tab. |
| 1:20.0 | Done. |
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