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#239: Sacrificial Anode
July 19th, 2024 · 116 minutes
John has updates on some recent elective plumbing.
#238: We Have a Bowl
July 5th, 2024 · 98 minutes
What does it mean to be a young person in the age of ubiquitous capture?
#237: Filmographies Directors
June 21st, 2024 · 79 minutes
Merlin can't tell whether John is mad at him, but John claims that he's not.
#236: Big Magazine
June 9th, 2024 · 95 minutes
John complains about a podcast that Merlin likes, and Merlin announces that professional eye care is a racket.
#235: Red Thing Get Hot
May 23rd, 2024 · 90 minutes
John thinks Merlin drinks too much water, which naturally leads to a deep dive on the landscape of consumer ice machines.
#234: The Bulgarian Punching Channel
May 9th, 2024 · 84 minutes
Merlin shares two recent experiences with Apple technology that were unqualified successes. Which, of course, leads to a jeremiad about some consumer tech that's a good deal less successful. John explains how writing books is like jazz, man.
#233: Monkeys in the Hose
April 26th, 2024 · 56 minutes
Follow-Up opens with a correction from John and an admission that he's very disappointed in you, the listener. John clocks Merlin's sudden overuse of some given word.
#232: Ham Means One
April 11th, 2024 · 104 minutes
John guides Merlin through an unusual form of communication.
#231: The Seventh Segment of a Seventh Segment
March 29th, 2024 · 88 minutes
Topic include perception, misdirection, binaries, and how it is that "Survivor" so rarely leaks.
#230: The Definite Particle
March 15th, 2024 · 101 minutes
A new season of Survivor brings an amazing new dingaling with a novel definition of "several." Then, John chats with Merlin about his recent Apple Vision Pro experience.