Episode 418: This Man…This Monster!
Back to Work
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🗓️ 19 March 2019
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
DISCUSSED: Top o' the Morling!; praise for the home release of Spider-Verse; Dan and Merlin offer some more TV recommendations; Merlin endorses an excellent "turns out" podcast; a deep dive on slow-rise squishes and related stress toys; Merlin wears his childhood privilege on his sleeve.
Finally, the guys answer an excellent listener question about the complex work of maintaining a household with someone you love.
Links for this episode:
- Ungainly X-Mann Meetup #25 — 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, March 21st to hang out, talk about comics, and just say, “Hi.” It's free and it's fun.
- You're Wrong About... — Overcast
Returning to misremembered history
- PEN15 - Wikipedia
- Love Death + Robots Trailer: David Fincher Presents Animated Anthology | IndieWire
- Stranger Danger — You're Wrong About... — Overcast
- Amazon.com: TrimakeShop Jumbo Cute Cartoon Dinosaur T-Rex Kawaii Cream Scented Squishies Very Slow Rising Kids Toys Doll Gift Fun Collection Stress Relief Toy Hop Props, Decorative Props Large: Gateway
- Amazon.com: AIKEMI Easter 6.5'' Slow Rising Squishies Slice Jumbo Soft Rainbow Sheep Cream Scented Squeeze Hand Wrist Gifts (Sheep): Toys & Games
- Pomodoro Technique - Wikipedia
- Reconcilable Differences #98: You’re Killing Your Father - Relay FM
John has a mental model about how the TV remotes flow, but no one seems very interested. Unsurprisingly, this leads to the airing of household grievances.Can't we just always have the flaps face the same way? Shouldn't we just stack the forks here in the forks area? Why is Daisy leaving caltrops in the hallway? Does a child's backpack really need to extend seventeen feet? Can we please just leave some space that accommodates the snack bags? Do we really need all this toothpaste?
- Question from Listener Sophie
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello big dog. How are you doing today? Good morning, other dog. |
| 0:06.2 | I think it's flying all over the place. I know, Gary, it sounds like a big morning |
| 0:11.9 | over there for you. Huge, huge morning. This is not interesting to our listeners, but |
| 0:17.4 | I've finally been forced to use the news guys. Welcome, welcome to 2019. How do you like |
| 0:23.2 | it here? Well, it's like having a terrible iPhone on my eye, Mac. Yeah. |
| 0:28.2 | Good. This is by design, Merlin. This is what people, this is what the people want. |
| 0:33.4 | Welcome to the future. Bitches. This is stupid. I know. Oh, God, your faces are everywhere. |
| 0:39.9 | No offense. You're a handsome man. But oh my goodness. Okay. Anyway, hey, how's it going? |
| 0:43.9 | Happy, happy Tuesday. Happy Tuesday. Happy, happy, belated St. Patrick's Day. |
| 0:47.9 | Oh, you too, too, too, as well. Top. Stop on the moryling. So over the weekend, I watched |
| 0:55.9 | with my whole family. We watched the spiderverse film, which my son and I had seen in the theater, |
| 1:04.7 | but hadn't seen since, even though even though I pre-ordered it and we got it, I think |
| 1:08.7 | the day that it came out in late February, we had it for two or three weeks without watching |
| 1:13.3 | it. And I was finally able to corral everyone together. And my wife said, I'm, oh, I'll |
| 1:19.2 | watch it. My daughter said, I don't think I'm going to like it. My son said, I can't |
| 1:24.0 | wait to watch it again. So we, we all sat around and watched it. And it was everybody |
| 1:29.9 | loved it. My daughter loved it. I think more than I do, which is almost impossible. She's |
| 1:35.5 | watched it two or three times since she's seven. She's watched it two or three times since |
| 1:40.6 | we've, we've already watched it. She now wakes up in the morning early to go down and |
| 1:44.8 | watch it before she does anything else. That's so huge. We watched the Theranos HBO |
| 1:50.3 | thing. This one, we're a big Theranos family. Oh, I heard about that documentary. I would |
| 1:56.4 | still go and listen to the multi-part ABC podcast. That is my favorite of the things. |
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