April 14, 2015 at 6:45PM •
1 hour 11 minutes
TOPIC: Kremlinology and Verbing
This week, Dan and Merlin follow-up on Dan's neighbor and The Trailer Incident. They also undertake a rather circuitous exploration of how little we understand about how stuff gets made. This leads to a semi-useful discussion of how the verbs we verb do and don't constitute the nouns we noun—and when we realize that.
April 7, 2015 at 3:45PM •
1 hour 40 minutes
TOPIC: With great power comes…uh, uh, what-have-you.
This week, Dan and Merlin cover a lot of ground. What makes a great comics movie. What movies to show (and not show) your kids. The majesty of The Big Lebowski. And, what exactly Dan should do about a construction trailer and a crawfish-pinching doctor.
March 31, 2015 at 7:30PM •
1 hour 16 minutes
TOPIC: Youth as exception.
This week, Dan and Merlin talk about chess, the problem with SEO, and why getting old is normal (if you're lucky).
March 24, 2015 at 5:00PM •
1 hour 16 minutes
TOPIC: Thinking Patterns and Thinking Bias
This week, Dan and Merlin talk in detail about how our unconscious patterns of thinking can damage our quality of life and hinder our ability to grow.
March 16, 2015 at 5:45PM •
1 hour 12 minutes
TOPIC: A lotta ins, a lotta outs, a lotta what-have-yous.
This week, Dan and Merlin are all thrown off since they're recording on a Monday. Weird, right?
They mostly talk about the respective states of comics and Apple fandom.
March 10, 2015 at 3:00PM •
1 hour 7 minutes
TOPIC: The weather is not the sky.
This week, Dan and Merlin talk about discovering the challenges that help you to thrive—and grow.
March 3, 2015 at 11:00AM •
1 hour 35 minutes
TOPIC: Less of an Island.
This week Dan and Merlin talk about time, negotiations, and what we want (and don't want) from our email apps.
February 24, 2015 at 6:45PM •
1 hour 40 minutes
TOPIC: Throwing Stars and Managers
This week, Dan and Merlin talk about working in a beehive and discuss whether they played D&D properly.
February 17, 2015 at 6:45PM •
1 hour 33 minutes
TOPIC: Illness, Late Night TV, AI in the home, and Talking Baby Dolls
This week, Merlin battles the flu to talk with Dan about late night television, binge watching, talking baby dolls, and the kind of artificial intelligence we really need.
February 10, 2015 at 1:45PM •
1 hour 40 minutes
TOPIC: Scoping the Minimally-Viable Me
This week, Dan and Merlin catch up on illness, Marvel comics, and what-have-you, but end up talking a lot about who we really are—who "I" actually am. Merlin eventually slips into an imbued and mildly-psychedelic fugue state that may strike the listener as alternately insightful and insane.
