Episode 89: Burlap Sack Full of Oranges
Back to Work
5by5
4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2012
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
TOPIC: Programming Your Kid's Danger Room.
This week, Dan and Merlin discuss the parenthood racket: the advice and expectations, the doubt and the fear, the assessment, the concentric circles, the snow cones.
Parenting means programming a Danger Room that teaches you and the kid to handle the hovering, the hitting, the losing, and the play structure.
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- "The Shining" - Production Script
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- Danger Room - Marvel Universe Wiki: The definitive online source for Marvel super hero bios.
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| 0:00.0 | Now you look like a real boy. |
| 0:05.4 | Hello. Good morning, Mr. Merlin, man. How are you today? |
| 0:08.1 | Uh, I'm very well done. How are you? He sound like maybe you have a cold. |
| 0:12.4 | No, should I? Would you like me to get one? |
| 0:16.0 | Yeah. Uh, I felt a little under the weather the other night, but it's mostly just early. |
| 0:23.2 | But uh, no, let's do the show later. Let's start doing a later. Let's talk about it. |
| 0:28.5 | All right. Go ahead. So it's, it's a little stressful, you know, to get it ready. |
| 0:32.7 | This is the fast man. Not that anybody cares. |
| 0:34.7 | The home in the show, right? This isn't one. No. No. No. |
| 0:40.1 | Now do you have a cold? Did you, you went to, uh, you went for the second time in like, |
| 0:44.0 | what, almost five years, you went somewhere. You know what? We shouldn't get into it. |
| 0:49.8 | You went to this, uh, conference. Uh, did you have a good time? |
| 0:52.7 | Yeah. I mean, it was, uh, it was a great conference up there in, uh, in Brooklyn. |
| 0:58.5 | You've been in Brooklyn, right? You always hang out there a lot. |
| 1:01.3 | I was in Brooklyn for almost a whole evening once. Yeah. I had, uh, I had barbecue there, |
| 1:06.3 | which is kind of weird. Mm-hmm. We spent a lot of time in Manhattan, instead of, |
| 1:12.0 | instead of Brooklyn, because, uh, we have sponsors. I went and visited, uh, a little Ryan, |
| 1:17.2 | finally met little Ryan in person. Some photo of you guys. It was an explosion of handsome. |
| 1:21.6 | He's so little. He's so little. Oh my god. He's so tiny. He's grown so fast. So it's hard to |
| 1:26.6 | keep him in shoes. I know. I know. His hair is getting pretty long too. Oh man. Yeah. |
| 1:32.8 | But I've, I've been told by informed parties that it, uh, it, it works well for him. |
| 1:39.8 | Yeah. Hmm. We're eventually have an intervention. I remember what, I just, I just got a haircut, |
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