185: A Shirts Journey

Published: June 24, 2022, 7 p.m.

Things kick off with an immediate derail into Merlin's Apple Health data, with John noting that he never liked _Statistics_.\n\nNext up, your hosts have\u2014at least by their standards\u2014a pretty big announcement. This leads to an appropriately in-depth exegesis into the process of making and selling a t-shirt. \n\nSide topics include Scott Pilgrim, JavaScript, domain names, throwing money at artists you love, and just one of the _numerous_ ways Factory Records managed to lose lots of money.\n\n\U0001f449 If you think you might enjoy having one, please consider [**buying our shirt**](https://recdiffs.store).\n\nIn Follow-Up, John is still monitoring the trades for insight into whether he wants to buy the TV he thinks he wants to buy. This is, as you know, not a decision John takes lightly, so he has sought the counsel of a Former Professional TV Calibrator. Which is apparently a job.\n\nIn further Follow-Up, John's toes are still a mess\u2014and John saw the charts that prove it.\n\nIn the interest of equal time, your hosts discuss the stuff that _they_ buy from creators they love. Merlin has a cascade, and John doesn't wear his own shirts. Or hoodies.\n\nThis leads to the sad backstory behind John being contacted by one of his heroes. Imagine getting an email from somebody whose photo used to hang on your teenaged wall asking you to stop doing something.\n\n*Moof*.\n\n(_Recorded on Tuesday, June 14, 2022_)