Episode 420: Baby Thorin
Back to Work
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4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2019
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
DISCUSSED: Merlin is back on his old cans; Dan is pivoting to video; Cash stepped in paint, and kids are terrible storytellers; a book recommendation; a case for the Oxford comma, please and thank you; Dan starts asking for help with his new iMac; gross nickel–and-diming by Apple; praise for Southwest Airlines; Dan (finally) gets to finish asking for help with his new iMac; a cool new open source Mac video app; the Mac laptop keyboard problems ain't going away; Dan really likes Final Cut; Merlin fights with UPS, both on principle and as a game; Merlin thinks Dan's egg cooker rules.
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- Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style: Benjamin Dreyer: 9780812995701: Amazon.com: Gateway
- Fresh Air for Feb. 5, 2019: Random House Copy Chief Benjamin Dreyer : NPR
- Menu for Ted's Farm Barbecue & Coffee Austn, TX Menu
- Oxford commas, Nelson Mandela, and Stephen King | Sentence first
- IINA - The modern media player for macOS
- Amazon.com: Dash Rapid Egg Cooker: 6 Egg Capacity Electric Egg Cooker for Hard Boiled Eggs, Poached Eggs, Scrambled Eggs, or Omelets with Auto Shut Off Feature - Black: Electric Egg Cookers: Gateway
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. |
| 0:02.0 | Oh, hello, Merlin. How are you? |
| 0:04.0 | I'm fine, Dan. How are you? |
| 0:06.0 | I'm doing fine. |
| 0:08.0 | Oh. |
| 0:10.0 | Well, I switched back to my old cans. |
| 0:12.0 | Get the cans back on and switch to them. |
| 0:16.0 | That's what I'm trying to say right here. |
| 0:18.0 | Try, uh, I have some hot soup. |
| 0:20.0 | Put a hot towel over your head. |
| 0:22.0 | Ooh, that sounds good. |
| 0:24.0 | How's your allergy situation? |
| 0:26.0 | Oh, well, I've talked about this elsewhere. |
| 0:28.0 | But, um, I decided, unfortunately, it was actually a cold. |
| 0:32.0 | Oh, these sounds so much better. I went back to my old cans. |
| 0:34.0 | What were you using and what are you using? |
| 0:36.0 | Oh, you know, uh, I don't know. |
| 0:38.0 | I got some marker recommendations because I needed a second pair of cans. |
| 0:44.0 | But, uh, I think they need an amplifier. |
| 0:46.0 | Oh, yes. |
| 0:48.0 | Whereas these ones that I'm using do not. |
| 0:50.0 | Anyway, I sound great in my head. |
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