251: ‘Parking Meters in a Dirt Lot’ With Merlin Mann

Very special guest Merlin Mann returns to the show. Topics include sleep and sleep-tracking (with Apple Watch), regional fast-casual dining, the nature of podcasting, and, of course, more.

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• Sleep-tracking Apple Watch apps:
  • Sleep++
  • SleepWatch
  • AutoSleep
• Apple’s list of standard Mac keyboard shortcuts.
• Vox: “How golf explains Donald Trump”.
• Commander-in-Cheat — Rick Reilly’s new book on Trump.
• Gino’s Burgers and Chicken — a fast food chain from the 1970s that served Kentucky Fried Chicken but was not a Kentucky Fried Chicken.
• 1984 NYT story on Massachussetts’s then-new — and still in place — law banning bars and restaurants from offering “Happy Hours”.
• Philadelphia is incinerating half its recycling.
• 99% Invisible episode on where U.S. recycling often went: to China.
• “The Banana Window” — 2011 episode of the old incarnation of The Talk Show where Merlin joined me as co-host while Dan was on paternity leave.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.