Episode 194: The Company of a Clown

TOPIC: What gets us on the moon?

This week, Dan and Merlin talk about varieties of clowns, rogue walruses, bloody elevator buttons, taking risks, and catching footballs.

Links for this episode:

• Charli XCX - SuperLove (Official Video) - YouTube
  
• Inquisitive #11: Merlin As A Service - Relay FM
  This week Myke is joined by Merlin Mann. They talk about preparing for changes in life and preparing for podcasts, trying to understand what people enjoy, avoiding analytics and a look back at inbox zero.
  
• Inquisitive #11: Merlin As A Service - Relay FM on Huffduffer
  This week Myke is joined by Merlin Mann. They talk about preparing for changes in life and preparing for podcasts, trying to understand what people enjoy, avoiding analytics and a look back at inbox zero.
  
• BONANZA! - Relay FM
  Hosted by Myke Hurley and Matt Alexander, Bonanza! is an important show about nothing in particular.
  
• Ungainly X-Mann Meetup #6 — Merlin Mann
  A Nerdy SF Comics Event with Merlin Mann, hosted by Two Cats Comics in West Portal.

  MERLIN MANN (Back to Work, Roderick on the Line, You Look Nice Today, et al.) invites you to drop by Two Cats Comics on the evening of Thursday, November 13th to hang out, talk about comics, and just say, “Hi.”
  

• BBC News - A Point of View: Four types of anxiety, and how to cure them
  But how to worry - and how not to, that's the question. I am a professional worrier, anxious by vocation - one thumb always hovering above the panic button, which is at least helpful when there's a real problem.
  
• My Thoughts: The Rogue Walrus
  
• Man on Wire (2008)
  A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center's twin towers in 1974, what some consider, "the artistic crime of the century."
  
• A Natural Fix for A.D.H.D. - NYTimes.com
  To compensate, they are drawn to new and exciting experiences and get famously impatient and restless with the regimented structure that characterizes our modern world. In short, people with A.D.H.D. may not have a disease, so much as a set of behavioral traits that don’t match the expectations of our contemporary culture.
  
• ? Supernatural pickpocketing skills!! Awesome to watch! - by Apollo Robbins - YouTube
  
• Banksy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti executed in a distinctive stencilling technique. Such artistic works of political and social commentary have been featured on streets, walls, and bridges of cities throughout the world.
  
• Madison Bumgarner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Penn and Teller Explain Sleight of Hand - YouTube
  
• Apollo Robbins: The art of misdirection | Talk Video | TED.com
  Hailed as the greatest pickpocket in the world, Apollo Robbins studies the quirks of human behavior as he steals your watch. In a hilarious demonstration, Robbins samples the buffet of the TEDGlobal 2013 audience, showing how the flaws in our perception make it possible to swipe a wallet and leave it on its owner’s shoulder while they remain clueless.
  
• Tom Magliozzi, Popular Co-Host Of NPR's 'Car Talk,' Dies At 77 : NPR
  
• Thank you Easter Bunny, Bawk Bawk! - YouTube
  
• John Wayne Gacy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Gacy became known as the "Killer Clown" due to his charitable services at fundraising events, parades and children's parties where he would dress as "Pogo the Clown", a character he devised himself.
  
• Showbot
  Listener-submitted suggestions for this week's episode title.
  
• World Series 2014: Madison Bumgarner pitches Giants past Royals for title - The Washington Post
  
• Amazon.com: LEGO Creator Small Cottage 31009: Toys & Games
  Accessories include sausage, tongs and a skateboard.

  Features lamp, drawers, swivel chair, table, removable roof and opening rear wall.
  

• The Man Who Walked Between the Towers: Mordicai Gerstein: 9780312368784: Amazon.com: Books
  
• The man who walked between the towers (Book, 2003) [WorldCat.org]
  
• Philippe Petit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Philippe Petit (born 13 August 1949) is a French high-wire artist who gained fame in 1974 for his high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, on the morning of 7 August.
  
• Amazon.com: Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (9780743203043): Robert D. Putnam: Books
  
• Dr.Katz - Ray Romano - Ep. 102 Pretzelkins - YouTube
  
• Feeling strong, Bumgarner gets critical Game 5 nod | MLB.com
  
• Sloan Concert Setlist at Croatian Cultural Centre, Vancouver on November 9, 2001 | setlist.fm
  
• Veteran of the Psychic Wars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• The 10,000 Hour Rule Is Not Real | Smart News | Smithsonian
  

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