Episode 615: An Attractive Nuisance
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🗓️ 17 May 2023
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
DISCUSSED: Merlin's family doesn't understand him; an extremely funny TV show is recommended; your hosts address some of the trade-offs that continue to hinder easy smart home adoption; Dan teases a big smart audio episode next week; and Merlin starts trying to tackle an unusual Thought Technology that's become very important to him: First, Make a Hole.

Links:
- Your Twitter Feed Sucks Now. These Free Add-Ons Can Help | WIRED
- BlueLiteBlocker/BlueLiteBlocker: A Chrome & Firefox extension for filtering out tweets from Twitter Blue users based on if they follow you and their follower count.
- 30 Best Mac Menu Bar Apps: Supercharge Your Mac! - TechPP
- Home - Netflix
- Kasa Smart Plug Ultra Mini 15A, Smart Home Wi-Fi Outlet Works with Alexa, Google Home & IFTTT, No Hub Required, UL Certified, 2.4G WiFi Only, 1-Pack(EP10), White - - Amazon.com
- The endless uses for an always-on Mac – Six Colors
- BBC Precision The Measure of All Things 1of3 Time and Distance PDTV - YouTube
- Merlin's Wisdom Project
- humanity.horse
- unwilling.horse
- 🧵 Merlin's big announcement — So honored to announce that Werner Herzog will be directing a documentary about what it’s like to be on a casual 1-hour family hike with me.
- Documentary Now! - "Soldier of Illusion"
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, Dan. How are you? I'm all right. I can't you know, I'd complain, but who would listen? Oh |
| 0:13.3 | Maybe you could get somebody on Fiverr |
| 0:16.8 | You could hire someone to listen. Yeah. Yeah. I saw |
| 0:22.0 | An advertisement on |
| 0:24.0 | Television for that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's like a place for mom, but for you know middle-aged men who |
| 0:31.1 | Dan, Dan, is your does your family listen to and understand you? Oh |
| 0:36.8 | I haven't even tried something like that in a long time |
| 0:40.6 | So I put in I would help |
| 0:43.1 | It's a it's a real you |
| 0:45.6 | Dan what I'm asking no, I mean it's like asking somebody like you know should your should your poopy yellow |
| 0:54.0 | I think you know the answer |
| 0:56.0 | By the way, I was out last week. Are you okay? Yeah, my poop was yellow. I was very very I was yellow or like a light like a beige |
| 1:04.0 | I don't want to get into it because I'll gross people out, but I don't know something happened on |
| 1:08.7 | It doesn't matter, but like yeah, I was under the weather. Oh |
| 1:12.3 | And so that's why I wasn't here last week. Hi everybody |
| 1:16.2 | But I've been I've been as busy as a don't know I've been a wet sweater lately |
| 1:20.4 | I've just been setting them up and knocking them down. You know doing things |
| 1:25.0 | Continuing my my journey, you know what I mean? Yeah, I know I mean it's an endless journey |
| 1:28.7 | It's a journey that never ends the journey that keeps on giving for me |
| 1:33.1 | But like I I came I got my family doesn't understand me down |
| 1:37.1 | Do you think it's that they don't care or that you're too complex? Oh |
| 1:42.1 | Those are the only two options what's funny you should I'm thinking of this wonderful |
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