Episode 453: Shoulder the Brunt

DISCUSSED: Merlin has an email confession; Dan steps up with a shoulder; listeners have given your hosts a season of the show; praise for HBO's Watchmen; a discussion of curating media for kids; Merlin exercises Personal Privilege; everybody is different!; praise for the new MacBook Pro (and who it may or may not be good for); the beginnings of what could be an extensive series on reclaiming control of your own media; some Plex homework for both listeners and your hosts; a brief rant on the downsides and limitations of renting other people's music; Merlin is birthday-gifted with Planty II plus some awesome @pants materials.

Links for this episode:

• Amazon.com: Inteset 4-in-1 Universal Backlit IR Learning Remote for use with Apple TV, Xbox One, Roku, Media Center/Kodi, Nvidia Shield, most Streamers and other A/V Devices: Electronics
  
• google sheets - how do I find the values that are in one column but not in the other - Stack Overflow
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• Amazon.com: Seagate Expansion Desktop 8TB External Hard Drive HDD – USB 3.0 for PC Laptop (STEB8000100): Computers & Accessories
  
• Common Sense Media: Age-Based Media Reviews for Families
  
• Over the Garden Wall (TV Mini-Series 2014) - Reference View - IMDb
  
• Nathan Hale
  
• Over the Garden Wall - Wikipedia
  
• Nathan Hale
  
• List of expressions related to death - Wikipedia
  
• 28 Profoundly Beautiful Quotes About Life And Death
  
• 360 Death Quotes That Will Bring You Instant Calm
  
• SoundJam MP - Wikipedia
  
• Over The Garden Wall | Potatoes and Molasses | Cartoon Network - YouTube
  
• MusicBrainz - The Open Music Encyclopedia
  
• MusicBrainz Picard
  
• mr. joshua (@pants) / Twitter
  
• LUMBERJANES
  

• Squarespace (Start your free trial site today, at Squarespace.com and when you sign up make sure to use the offer code ITSYOURSHOW to get 10% off your first purchase).

• Kensington (Test drive a docking solution today with the Kensington Pro C program by visiting Kensington.com/backtowork).