Episode 216: Safety Sword

TOPIC: Kremlinology and Verbing

This week, Dan and Merlin follow-up on Dan's neighbor and The Trailer Incident. They also undertake a rather circuitous exploration of how little we understand about how stuff gets made. This leads to a semi-useful discussion of how the verbs we verb do and don't constitute the nouns we noun—and when we realize that.

Links for this episode:

• 5by5 | 5by5 at the Movies #3: The Big Lebowski - "A Life of Achievement"
  Dan Benjamin and Merlin Mann talk about The Big Lebowski, which is just, like, their opinion, man.
• 5by5 Showbot
  
• What is Catastrophizing? | Psych Central
  Catastrophizing is an irrational thought a lot of us have in believing that something is far worse than it actually is.
• Pain catastrophizing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Kremlinology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  

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