Episode 419: The Elephant in the Sword
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🗓️ 26 March 2019
⏱️ 103 minutes
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DISCUSSED: allergy attack!; big anniversary today; elegy for Two Cats Comics; some D&D talk; Dan got a sword!; yet more D&D talk; key commands for line-moving; Dan got his YouTube URL back; a Theranos book recommendation; Dan almost got cast in a TV show; some observations and reckons about Apple's big Services event.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. Hello, Merlin. How are you? Not fine, Dan. How are you? Pretty good. Pretty good. |
| 0:06.4 | Now, are you still live reporting live from the floor, even though it was yesterday for the |
| 0:12.6 | big Apple event? I'm still here. All the celebrities are around. They're still enjoying |
| 0:18.3 | craft services. Dan, I have a week hold. There's something going on in the allergies. So, |
| 0:25.8 | I sound really dusky today. I don't. As long as it's just allergies and nothing serious, |
| 0:30.4 | I need to be concerned about. Well, I don't think you'll get it, but I don't know. Oh, man. |
| 0:36.5 | Yeah, this is the show floor. Oh. Yeah, we should talk about that. What do we got today? We've got |
| 0:46.6 | some odds. Hello, good morning. We have some odds. We have some sods. We've both prepared a little |
| 0:52.8 | bit for some sods and odds. I think you wanted to talk about the Apple event. Do you wish we |
| 0:57.6 | wanted to save that for the primary topic? Yeah, I think so. That could work. I'd be down for that. |
| 1:02.3 | I have a lot to learn on that. Oh, yeah. It was interesting. I definitely think we should |
| 1:08.8 | care and share about that a little bit. Yeah. I need to learn about that. I was recording |
| 1:15.1 | with our friend John Roderick yesterday. I had it up in my iPad muted while we recorded a really |
| 1:20.4 | good episode yesterday. That was a very, very good episode. But I did have Oprah in the background. |
| 1:26.7 | Just, you know, I had actually turned it off before she came on stage, not because I thought she |
| 1:31.9 | was coming on. Wow, Dan. I had gotten bored. Do you always, is it that she's a woman or |
| 1:39.2 | that she's a person of color? What is it that makes you want to turn off the TV when people come on? |
| 1:43.5 | I would actually say if I had known she was going to come on, I might have kept watching. But |
| 1:49.2 | after they started parading out the celebrities one after another after another, I just, |
| 1:55.2 | I found it to be tedious. Boy, I hope that's better than it looked. |
| 1:58.6 | And I just said I can't do this anymore. If I had known Oprah was coming on, |
| 2:04.6 | I would have kept it on just so I could see her giving away the iPads because I understand |
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