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Episode 145: Nine-Thousand Words of Holden Caulfield

Back to Work

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2013

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: Grab bag

This week, Dan takes a minute to sit down with Merlin to talk about bathroom GIFs, Marvel movies, private school ejection, and a new interview with Merlin that is very very long.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Merlin Mamp.

0:01.8

Dan Benjamin is one of the busiest podcasters

0:04.9

in America today.

0:06.4

He found a few moments to sit down with me.

0:08.4

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

0:11.2

Hi, Dan.

0:13.5

Oh, hi, Merlin. How are you doing today?

0:15.6

It's going great. How are you?

0:16.7

I don't know. It's weird not being in the same room as you.

0:18.8

You know what I'm saying? It's a strange feeling.

0:23.3

It feels weird.

0:25.4

It feels different.

0:28.1

I totally disagree.

0:29.5

You were saying when we were in the room

0:31.1

that you like it better when we're not in the same room.

0:33.8

And I was saying I like it better when we are.

0:35.8

I like it way better.

0:36.8

Why?

0:38.1

Well, because you're the first while you're laying down.

0:40.6

I was supine.

0:41.6

We weren't able to do when we were sitting in the...

0:43.8

I couldn't, but you would have said something about it.

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