Episode 527: Classic Mentos Situation
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4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
DISCUSSED: Merlin is reporting live from the show floor; sleep is complicated; food is complicated, too; Dan tries to build muscles the right way; he also has strong feelings about TV shopping; Merlin just wants someone to tell him which is The Good One.
Links for this episode:
- Feeling Blah During the Pandemic? It's Called Languishing - The New York Times
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- The Importance of Routines, Even Interrupted by a Pandemic - The New York Times
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- Reviews and Ratings - RTINGS.com
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- ::: LG | webOS TV Developer :: Discover webOS TV
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- LG CX 65 inch Class 4K Smart OLED TV w/ AI ThinQ® (64.5'' Diag) (OLED65CXPUA) | LG USA
Merlin's beloved fancy TV.
- LG CX OLED Review (OLED48CXPUB, OLED55CXPUA, OLED65CXPUA, OLED77CXPUA) - RTINGS.com
- TV Tools - RTINGS.com
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- TV Size to Distance Calculator and Science - RTINGS.com
Use our size to distance calculator to see which size TV you should get based on how far away you'll be sitting from the screen.
- Reconcilable Differences #150: The Stands - Relay FM
"Next, the focus turns to TV stands. While pretty much all of them are incompatible with John's house, this generates a careful visual interrogation of the bizarre manner in which Sony thinks your home works."[Siracusa, picking nits at his best]
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. |
| 0:02.0 | Oh, hello, Merlin. |
| 0:04.0 | Hello, Dan, and good. |
| 0:06.0 | Morling. |
| 0:07.0 | Good Morling to you. |
| 0:08.0 | Are you live and direct from the show floor? |
| 0:10.0 | Oh, Jesus, I forgot I am. |
| 0:12.0 | You want it? |
| 0:13.0 | This is really embarrassing. |
| 0:14.0 | Hey, can I get more of that out of Walla? |
| 0:16.0 | Well, you don't have any more in the box lunch? |
| 0:18.0 | Oh, man, things are crazy here. |
| 0:20.0 | Busy down there. |
| 0:21.0 | The rumors are flying. |
| 0:22.0 | Yeah, it's going to be a smaller chin and a taller forehead and multiple pistols, |
| 0:27.0 | colors, a number one. |
| 0:30.0 | It's feeling a little electric in the air. |
| 0:35.0 | Somebody's just rolled Eddie off the couch and he's untucked to shirt and re-tucked it |
| 0:42.0 | and then thought better and untucked it and laid back down. |
| 0:44.0 | Yes. |
| 0:45.0 | Back to you, Dan. |
| 0:46.0 | I mean, that's all I have. |
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