Episode Details

Links

• TLC - "Waterfalls"
  Alex was four.
• No Such Thing as a Fish
  QI researchers' podcast; Merlin's been listening for years
• No Such Thing As Debreadtion — No Such Thing As A Fish — Overcast
  The episode Merlin mentioned
• Ken Burns' Jazz
  Episode 9 "The Adventure."
• TLC - "Unpretty"
  Merlin's favorite TLC song.
• Dead Drop
  Spycraft term for passing info without meeting
• Ken Burns' Baseball
  Source of the Lincoln "tiredest" quote
• A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
  New Game of Thrones spinoff
• Why Are Icelandic Horses Not Called Ponies? (Iceland Mag)
  Pony-sized but Iceland said it's a horse
• Ship of Theseus (Khan Academy video)
  The philosophical paradox behind "Thesean Horse"
• Saint John Coltrane Church (KQED)
  Yes, there's literally a church for this album
• John Coltrane - A Love Supreme (1965)
  The album that inspired the church
• "Is he quare?"
  Comedy repetition reference
• Harry Enfield
  British comedian; "Is he queer?" sketch
• Paul Whitehouse
  The other half of the old men in the club
• I Spy books (Walter Wick Studio)
  Merlin's analogy for how Claude Code sees things
• "40, 45 Years" - Stewart Lee
  The callback king
• Claude Code (Anthropic)
  The AI tool Merlin won't shut up about
• Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
  2014 BBC tribute documentary; narrated by Simon Callow
• The Young Ones (IMDb)
  What you most likely know Rik Mayall from
• The Young Ones - "Bambi" / University Challenge (YouTube)
  Fry, Laurie, Thompson vs. the lads
• Nell (1994)
  Merlin's first memory of Liam Neeson as a lead
• Nell (1994) Trailer
  "Can't abide a canna peas," is a line Merlin feels like he remembers Jodie Foster's Nell saying
• Scotiabank Saddledome: Building Design
  Say it soft, and it's almost like praying.
• Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing
  Bob and Paul's fishing show
• Game of Thrones - "Fire and Blood" (Fandom)
  Season 1 finale; Daenerys and the dragon e