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Episode 191: Heisenberg Uncertainty Dog

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2014

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: People, amirite?

This week, Dan and Merlin talk about neighbors, dogs, Macs, MLB.tv, and flavors of reinforcement.

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0:00.0

Oh, hello, Maryland man. How's everything? Good morning, Dan. How are you? I'm doing good. How's everything? You know, up in the great wherever you do. Yes. I'm adjusting my mix. I like your mix. Speaking like George decay. Oh, my.

0:19.0

You sound good to me. Thank you, dad. You sound good to me too. So I have a, I wanted to start out with the, with a question. It's about my neighbors. I know that you've had.

0:30.0

You know, different issues with your, with your neighbors in me.

0:36.0

I'm not accurate or something. I feel so much more comfortable talking about other people's neighbors. I would love to help anyway. I can.

0:43.0

Yeah, because I'm just going to answer Dan. It's not your fault. Oh, and no, no, no. Yeah. No, I'm not worried about that. Let me be the judge of that. No, tell me about it. Neighbor problems are difficult. You, you got to live somewhere. Well, this doesn't quite borderline on what I would call a problem as much as it's simply curiosity. And I think part of it comes from the fact that I'm not really immersed in the drug subculture here in in the US, the way that so I wanted to ask you about it. And, um, and something. I was like, I'm just going to go home and talk to you. I'm going to say, you know, I'm going to talk to you. I'm going to talk to you. I'm going to talk to you. I'm going to talk to you. I'm going to talk to you. I'm going to talk to you. I'm going to talk to you. I'm going to talk to you

1:13.0

and see if you could shed any light on this because I think it's a drug thing. I'm just, I'm not sure. But we live in a very nice, very nice area of Austin. And it's mostly just families. And a very, you know, almost everyone I would think has kids in a dog, that kind of thing. And so the house across the street from us. You know, when we moved in three or four years ago, was they sold about a year after or so. So it's not the original neighbors that I met the one time.

1:43.0

I haven't actually never met them. But they now have a red light on. It seems like 24 seven. They've got a red light. The blinds are mostly shut. But it's on the front of their house that faces our house. So at nighttime. When we all look out to see the sun setting. Um, we'll also notice that there's a red strong red light on the in just the one inside the home. Inside the home, the across the way.

2:13.2

That's it. That's yeah. That's the whole story. Oh, so I don't know what that is. We, I think it's a drug thing. I don't think they're developing pictures. What makes you what? I was gonna say they could be developing pictures. They might be might be an on the air light.

2:25.2

They might be doing podcasting or they might be doing a radio show about UFOs. Yeah, you have so what would what makes you think that will make you think.

2:36.6

is a drug, they're things.

2:38.2

I don't know why, why else would they have a red light on?

2:40.9

What do you mean?

2:41.9

Maybe they like red lights.

2:42.9

Maybe it's a Phillips, what's it called?

2:45.8

Light hub.

2:46.8

Maybe that's a, but nobody, just the intensity of the light, the brightness of the light,

2:53.3

the particular color, there's no way that a human could endure that kind of light.

3:00.4

And it's on most of the night like that.

3:03.2

Do you think they're sending a message?

3:04.5

Like remember when Molder used to have to like put a little, he'd put a little ax on

3:08.4

the, the window or something.

3:09.8

And so the smoking, you know, like Robert, Robert, Robert, Redford putting the flag in the

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