Subtitle: Merlin can still smell the slide oil.

TiVo: The Exit Interview.

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John leads us through the TiVo Exit Interview.

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(Recorded Tuesday, July 22, 2025)

Credits

• Audio Editor/First Chair Saxophonist: Jim Metzendorf
  


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• Music: Merlin Mann


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TiVo Stops Selling DVRs

Philips DSR6000 for DIRECTV - TiVopedia

Merlin's first TiVo

Alien: Earth - Wikipedia

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Aliens (1986)

Alien³ (1992)

The Tithingman at the Ipswich Meeting House – Historic Ipswich

Apparently, what Merlin calls "the bonking stick" refers to a staff or rod wielded by a "Tithingman."