Episode 625: Chapters of Madness

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🗓️ 6 September 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Dan and Merlin have a wide-ranging discussion.

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0:00.0	Hello. Hello. Hi, Merlin. How are you? I'm doing all right. It's warm here in Texas. Yeah,
0:10.8	how warm is it? It's so warm that it's 90 degrees right now at 130 in the afternoon. It's actually
0:17.6	about 10 degrees cooler than it has been. So I'm not complaining. It's only your complaining a little
0:23.7	bit. A little. Yeah. I only complain about things I can't change. I don't know about that.
0:30.0	I don't know about that, but it's an interesting way to think of the problem. Yeah. You know,
0:35.6	because then sometimes you figure out it's something you could have changed.
0:39.2	Like by not living in this state. I don't know. I mean, it's not it's not my problem. But
0:44.6	like they say in Poland, not my circus, not my monkeys. No, but is that a polling thing?
0:52.9	I mean, I've only ever heard in English. I'm not a I'm not a I'm not a polyglot. I see. No.
0:58.7	I'm just have the one wife. Yeah, I assure you. Yeah. Yeah. That's an interesting thing.
1:04.5	Because there's a lot of things in my own life. It's too numerous to get into where I thought I
1:11.5	didn't have any control over it. You know, but then I did. Sure. You know, I don't know if you
1:16.9	should move though. I mean, you didn't move. You moved into that house not that long ago.
1:21.7	Yeah, I should feel like I should should stay in the house a little bit. You lose like,
1:25.6	I don't know, 50% of the value the day you drive your house off in a minute, it leaves a lot. I know.
1:31.4	I know. But it's like when they when they when they smash the glass at the wedding,
1:34.8	you know, the first dent you get on your house, it's actually kind of good luck.
1:37.4	Yeah. It's green on your wedding day. Yeah. We're like suing the anti-defamation leak for defamation.
1:46.8	You can hear me, right? I hear everything. Well, what do you want to do today? What's going on?
1:50.3	Um, Tuesday, it's the auspicious rabbit rabbit and yep, yep, yep, and we're coming into the home
2:00.8	stretch for a big, big apple announcement. I know. It's only a week, right? It's a week till you
2:06.0	hit the floor. Oh, it's only seven, six more sleeps and you know, you're there. And you're right
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