88: Static Contraction

Published: Oct. 4, 2018, 2:15 a.m.

This week, John has a musical request for Merlin, and Merlin agrees to hop on the court. This leads to a discussion of musical fingernail trimming, and the revelation of an upsetting new callus.\n\nJohn has questions about Merlin\u2019s crazy bandwidth. This leads to misty, water-colored memories of the way we downloaded. Time was, no one could get ISDN, and John makes a funny goof. \n\nJohn did not fix the document.\n\nIn follow-up, Merlin has an update on homework at after-care, then kind of goes off about who is and is _not_ allowed to boss his family. John worries about discovering the real reason dingalings do what they do. \n\nIn further follow-up, John addresses feedback from Listener Todd about Merlin\u2019s TV settings. John suggests the only real way to calibrate your screen. Don\u2019t worry; they make it fun. Merlin thinks Netflix\u2019s 4k quality may have ruined him, and a nerdy TV site is endorsed.\n\nMerlin gets John invited to a Slack, and John explains _Star Wars_ razors.\n\nAt `1:31:45`, Jim fires off the Spoiler Horn for a discussion of HBO\u2019s series, _Succession_.\n\n(_Recorded on Tuesday, September 25, 2018._)