Episode 392: Gentleman's Calling
Back to Work
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4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2018
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
A classic odds-and-sods episode, featuring important discussions about sleep tracking, the Apple Watch, Succession, sound bars, Chris Nolan's Batman, and Nintendo Online.
Links for this episode:
- Amazon.com Help: About AmazonSmile
- Ungainly X-Mann Meetup #24 — 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, September 27th to hang out, talk about comics, and just say, “Hi.” It's free and it's fun.
- Ep. 305: "The Hostess" - Roderick on the Line - Merlin Mann
The Problem: John has more of a comment than a question.
- Sleep Watch App — Apple Watch Sleep Tracker App
- Apple drops official Apple Watch Link Bracelet price, some already sold out | 9to5Mac
- Watch - Apple
- Marvel Studios' Captain Marvel - Official Trailer - YouTube
- Succession: Roman Roy Doesn’t Know How Chairs Work
- Pricing Plans – Nintendo Switch Online – Nintendo Switch™ Official site
- Nintendo Entertainment System – Nintendo Switch Online – Nintendo Switch™ Official site
- Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) - IMDb
Scott Pilgrim must defeat his new girlfriend's seven evil exes in order to win her heart.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. |
| 0:01.0 | Hello, Merlin. How are you? |
| 0:03.8 | Good morning. I'm very well. |
| 0:05.6 | You sound quite alert and awake today. |
| 0:07.8 | I do. I sound alert. |
| 0:09.4 | Yes. |
| 0:10.4 | Huh. Huh. |
| 0:12.4 | What? That's not you're not feeling it. |
| 0:16.0 | It's improbable. |
| 0:17.0 | No, I'm alright. I'm alright. You know, I got stuff to do in the morning. So I wake |
| 0:20.8 | up a little bit. |
| 0:21.8 | You're up early in that day out there. |
| 0:24.4 | Um. |
| 0:25.2 | What do you have with like five? |
| 0:26.6 | Oh, no, no, not if I can help it. |
| 0:30.1 | Um. |
| 0:31.1 | It varies, but usually by like six or six thirty. |
| 0:34.0 | I find that one of the reasons that I've done, I've talked to a doctor about this, not, |
| 0:38.4 | not. It wasn't, I didn't go to the doctor to talk about this. Let's be clear. But I, |
| 0:44.0 | I asked. |
| 0:45.0 | Are you on a bus with a doctor? |
| 0:46.0 | I asked a doctor. |
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