Episode 605: A Case for a Life
Back to Work
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4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
DISCUSSED: Dan begins a new journey into smart home living, and Merlin is excited about common misconceptions.
Links:
- List of common misconceptions - Wikipedia — Each entry on this list of common misconceptions is worded as a correction; the misconceptions themselves are implied rather than stated. (via Sam Enright)
- The Cabinet of Wikipedian Curiosities – Sam Enright — Carl Sagan was involved in this plan to nuke the moon for unclear reasons, including “a possible boosting of domestic morale”.
- Pluralistic: Tiktok’s enshittification (21 Jan 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
- The Food Expiration Dates You Should Actually Follow - The New York Times
- The Thoughts of a Spiderweb | Quanta Magazine — Spiders appear to offload cognitive tasks to their webs, making them one of a number of species with a mind that isn’t fully confined within the head.
- Reconcilable Differences #200: The Genius Who Keeps Retiring - Relay FM
- Home Assistant
- “Monorail!” How Conan O’Brien Came Up With an Iconic ‘Simpsons’ Episode - The Ringer
- An Oral History of 'Marge vs The Monorail', the Episode That Changed 'The Simpsons'
- Home | Archive of Our Own — A fan-created, fan-run, nonprofit, noncommercial archive for transformative fanworks, like fanfiction, fanart, fan videos, and podfic
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. Hello. Oh, hello, Merlin. How are you? I'm very well, Dan. Good morning. Good |
| 0:08.1 | morning to you all so. Feeling good. Yeah. Yeah. I'm really I'm in the pocket. Oh, yeah. |
| 0:18.6 | I like that. Yeah. I mean, I'm not sure who's pocket. I don't know if it matters at this point. |
| 0:24.0 | I mean, somebody's pocket. I mean, that's where you want to be. That's a sign of success. Yeah, |
| 0:28.2 | get into the groove. Boy, you've got to prove your love to me. Yeah. That's going up on your feet. |
| 0:34.9 | Oh, Dan, here we are again in Spain. And we're coming at you again with the back to work program. |
| 0:41.1 | That's right. We're here for to do that. I, uh, we do that. We do. Yeah. And like, whether you |
| 0:51.0 | want it or not, I mean, we're here, whether you want us to be or not, that's clear. It would be |
| 0:55.6 | self-involved, not to imagine that somebody wishes we would stop. But there's people out there |
| 1:00.7 | who are just hoping that we're done. Oh, Dan, everybody's mad about everything. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. |
| 1:05.7 | You don't find out how much people hate you until you have the opportunity. It's a bummer. |
| 1:10.4 | You know, really is this the last day or they're 31 or 32 days in January. |
| 1:15.1 | According to my wife, it is. Yeah. Yeah. I'm just trying to be I'm just trying to be |
| 1:19.3 | convivial and make conversation. I'm over here working with DJ Fact Check title. And I go, Oh my |
| 1:25.9 | God. Can you believe the Tuesday is already rabid rabid? And DJ Fact Check goes meat moop, meat |
| 1:34.1 | moop. Yeah. Actually, that's Wednesday. Now, Dan, that is, that is a misconception in some ways. |
| 1:40.1 | And that is the almost the sole thing that I prepared this week. But it's my, my, my misconception |
| 1:46.9 | preparation. That might be a stereo lab album is good. But then you rush in at the last moments |
| 1:55.9 | and say that you've got a topic, which is, well, it doesn't excite me, but it interests me. |
| 2:00.4 | You're curious. So you're curious minded person. I'm topic curious. Yeah. Yeah. I just want |
| 2:08.3 | the people on the last of us to be happy. Are you caught up? I finished episode three last night |
| 2:13.7 | at night. And not a hell of a thing. What a, what a, what a story. I never played the video game. |
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