The Talk Show
‘John Was the Problem’, With Merlin Mann
Saturday, 11 December 2021
Merlin Mann returns to the show to discuss two brief topics (with a few asides): my dream of opening a steakhouse, and Peter Jackson’s Beatles documentary Get Back.
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Links:
Who’s who in “Get Back”? A guide to the non-Beatles in Peter Jackson’s documentary.
“And Your Bird Can Sing” (Take 2) April 20, 1966.
Amazon.com: iSi Classic MeshSodamaker for Making Carbonating Beverages, 1 Quart, Stainless Steel: Industrial & Scientific.
American Giant.
Farhad Manjoo: “This Is The Greatest Hoodie Ever Made”.
YKK Zippers.
Bern’s Steak House in Tampa.
Jamie Zawinski.
DNA Lounge.
“Now you have two problems.”
The Sharper Image’s Bacon Express Toaster.
Helen Rosner in The New Yorker: “Pellet Ice Is the Good Ice”.
Hal’s New York Seltzer Water.
“What makes Ringo a Great Drummer”.
“World’s Great Drummers Salute Ringo Starr”.
David Sims, Letterboxd one-sentence reviewer extraordinaire.
“Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle”.
“Free Solo”.
“A Quiet Place”.
RoboCop: Blank Check with Griffin & David.
Amanda Hess in the NYT: “The Sublime Spectacle of Yoko Ono Disrupting the Beatles”.
“Futura and Wes Anderson: A Love Story”.
Atkinson Hyperlegible — an accessibility typeface.
Hop Sing Laundromat:
Hop Sing on Twitter.
Lê on Twitter.
Rare photos from inside.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.