The Difference Between a Great Men's Suit and a Bad Man's Jacket?

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.