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Episode 439: Servant of the Red Badge

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Business, Society & Culture, Barriers, Dan Benjamin, Careers, Communication, Merlin Mann, Creativity, Work, Productivity, Constraints, Technology

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2019

⏱️ 91 minutes

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DISCUSSED: finding an actor's age and height; time analogies; Merlin needs help naming two critical phenomena; Dan is dissatisfied with how cars look; could Wolverine get a Caillou tattoo, and would it grow back, hmmmm?; Merlin is getting into plants (no, not sexually); the return of that time when Danny held the license plate; and finally, Merlin has a long stemwinder on an admittedly amorphous topic: the unimpeachable benefits of undoing most of the buttons we've clicked.

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0:00.0

Hello, I think that's my favorite my favorite part of the show is that pause

0:06.6

That you wait for to help let Skype sort of coalesce and settle down and it's I can hear I can hear you in the background

0:13.3

I hear a sound I just hit the train going by I hear the train. I love that. Yeah

0:21.0

Yeah

0:22.3

Now okay this this comes up. I have somebody to talk about I can't wait now

0:27.4

I've started watching for when the call recorder. So here's what happens at some point

0:33.8

How do you explain so Skype you can get an app from a company called ecam called call recorder

0:39.5

Right, which is a very popular way to record a Skype call and it's really clever

0:44.6

If you've never used it, it's a very first of all it's very clever that you can use Skype for hot podcast

0:48.8

That's what tons of people use lucky zoom now, which we should probably try at some point but um

0:54.0

So there's this app called call recorder and it's been great for years because it does something very clever

0:59.3

It records your Skype call but further to that it records both sides

1:05.8

It records your side and then everything else right on a two track dot M O V file

1:13.2

Which can then be it's a great way it's a easy way to be able to record now at some point in the last

1:18.6

I want to say year or two call recorder has

1:22.5

Call recorder used to start immediately as soon as the Skype call started

1:27.8

If memory serves. Yeah, so everybody started discovering after one update at some point in the last year or two

1:34.1

It suddenly took a few seconds to kick in and I lost a little delay of some kind

1:40.5

I want to say about five seconds

1:42.5

But it's hard to know it's hard to tell and we tend to you know a abundance of caution

1:47.5

We err on the side of you know not missing the beginning of the call otherwise. It's really weird

1:51.9

So there's tons of nut tons. There's a handful of like Roderick on the line episodes where I missed you know

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