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Episode 203: I Blame the Media.

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

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2015

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: The things you did or didn't say.

This week, Dan and Merlin sympathize with their pal Marco's recently becoming "way too popular for a day."

What happens when something we said or wrote gets quoted, misquoted, taken out of context, or amplified a thousand times more than we'd expected?

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0:00.0

Hello. Hello, Merlin, man. How are you? Good morning, Dan. Good morning, Ben. How are you?

0:08.0

How are you? You know, before the show began, I wanted to, you and I were tossing around some

0:13.2

ideas. We had a couple good ones. But before we do that, I know you're there on the floor at CES

0:19.5

and, you know, doing doing some coverage for us. I wanted to jump into that and see if we could

0:24.0

kind of go for some of the highlights, the what you need to know about CES 2015.

0:30.5

We could jump right in and do do that first, because I know that's what.

0:34.1

Hello, Dan. Dan, I'm reporting from the floor of CES here on Lost Fingers. It's a tremendous showing

0:39.5

this here. There are, I've found an adjustable hat that changes with the rain. And there are a number

0:46.9

of people that can be purchased for a very small amount of money to come to your home and

0:52.3

be part of the Internet of Things. I don't know. I got nothing. I'm sitting here riding the Skype.

0:58.6

Are you through me off and riding the Skype? Oh, yeah. Yeah. No, me too. How do I sound on your end?

1:04.2

You sound better than usual. Whatever you did. Keep it, keep it up. Once you get it up, keep it up.

1:10.9

I don't know if that's even a consideration or topic for today or topic for today. Get it up,

1:15.8

keep it up. We're kicking calls. Yeah. I don't know. Mark from Mark from Grand Rapids is on the phone.

1:24.2

He has a question about keeping it up without actually getting it up. This is all things considered.

1:35.6

Um, um, good morning. Yeah. How are things way? You know what it is? I, you know, I'm not,

1:41.8

you know me once I'm on the game, once I'm doing the show, lock and load, 100% attention,

1:47.2

just on my computer is being a little bit bulky today. That's why I'm confused. Yeah. Also,

1:52.0

I didn't drink enough coffee. What were we talking about? C-E-S, you know, I guess I don't know. C-E-S,

2:01.1

it's one of those things that you've ever gone to it. No, you know what? I never have. And the

2:04.6

couple times I sort of flirted with the idea of people have said, oh, yeah, I think you don't

2:08.4

want to go. You don't want to go. You don't want to go. Yeah. Well, I mean, it's, it seems like

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