« The Phantom Merlin »

This episode of Scruffy Thinking features a conversation with Merlin Mann and Mike J Nichols. We talk about San Francisco, music, getting a job and... of course, Star Wars: The Phantom Edit.

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Alternate Show Titles

• Hippie Furniture
• Midget Prostitute
• Yelp for Handjobs
• That Phantom Editor...

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Hosts

Kanen Flowers

Kanen is the troublemaker behind Scruffy Thinking. He writes a blog, writes code and creates visual and textual content, sometimes together. You can follow him on twitter or check out his company at Scruffy.TV.

Merlin Mann

Better known as @hotdogsladies, Merlin is the co-host of Roderick on the Line with John Roderick of the Long Winters, the co-host of Back To Work with Dan Benjamin and part of the ensemble comedy troupe, You Look Nice Today which was once featured on Quotidian Public Radio.

Mike J Nichols

Mike is creator of 2 Guys Drinking At a Bar starring Kevin Farley and Paul Preston, the producer and editor of the television series Punk Payback starring Bas Rutten, airs on FOX’s FUELtv network. Mike is also the man responsible for The Phantom Edit - an unauthorized re-edit of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.

Show Notes

Laraley standing in front of the living room pool mentioned early in the show.

The Tenderloin in San Francisco, with all the Midget Prostitutes.

You should be running Cloak on a free public Wifi network.

The story of the professor who slipped the fake Magna Carta paper onto the Internet is pretty funny.

The Wiki entry on Rovi Corp -- aka Macrovision and their copy protection scheme on VHS tapes.

I worked on 77, about the day Star Wars came out.

David Mamet wrote a letter to the team at THE UNIT (Tv Show).

Merlin did some Razzle Dazzle for The Attack of the Phantom, referencing You Look Nice Today.

The Phantom Merlin