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Episode 131: The Peacock Dance of Men

Back to Work

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Business, Society & Culture, Barriers, Dan Benjamin, Careers, Communication, Merlin Mann, Creativity, Work, Productivity, Constraints, Technology

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2013

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: Power, Yelling, and Airport Kung Fu

This week, Dan and Merlin continue their discussion of power and how it does or doesn't work.

Do real leaders actually talk like the douchebags, serial entrepreneurs, and screamy travelers struggling to imitate them? Not really. That's one way you can tell they're leaders.

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0:00.0

you like that? No. How are you? I'm fine. Is that credited to anyone or was that just

0:14.7

AI that made that? What was that? DJ earworm. Of course, DJ earworm. I live in San Francisco.

0:22.4

I make songs for people from other songs. How's everything going over there? Pretty good, Dan. How are you?

0:31.6

I'm good. Nice to talk to you. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Thank you. It's nice to be here. I

0:37.0

enjoy your shows. I was hanging out with your pal from San Francisco just last night. I have a

0:42.6

pal. Yeah. That's sweet. Please let me know. Jason Snow. Jason Snow. He's a handsome man.

0:51.5

Yeah. He was here in Austin for, you know, I don't know what they do, but he was here.

0:56.7

Oh, for some kind of thing, business thing. Business papers. He was at the Comic Con. He did a drunk

1:03.2

podcast. And so I guess he on the way back, he popped into Austin. Is that what he, yeah. Yeah,

1:08.5

maybe take the edge off. Clip all the pipes as they say. Clip out the pipes. That's right. Yeah.

1:15.3

How are you? You sound good. He's got the dog. He's that. Yeah.

1:22.4

It's 420 somewhere. Yeah. Always. You don't like that song I played at the beginning of the show.

1:29.3

That's fine. That's miserable, miserable music. It's a hit. It's a hit song. Oh, well,

1:36.3

shoot. I wish I'd known that before I passed judgment. Yeah. My goodness. I hate to be

1:41.7

the minority about music. Wow. I know what I do, though. My wife has already, I don't know,

1:48.2

my wife leads some kind of second life that I'm not involved in, which is probably healthy.

1:54.2

But like we'll be listening to some crummy music on the radio or something. And my,

1:59.7

you know, because they make that the music's like crack. That junky over compressed music with

2:05.2

the robot voices and everything. I am 46. And oh, my God. And they seem to know they sing along

2:13.2

with them. And I have found out that they listen to Pandora stations based on these crappy songs.

2:20.6

And so now I started listening to them. So I think I've actually heard some of that. I've heard

2:23.7

DJ Erworm. I'm more of a girl talk fan. I like the the streamlined components, if you like,

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