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Episode 208: Don't Touch Daddy

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2015

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: Illness, Late Night TV, AI in the home, and Talking Baby Dolls

This week, Merlin battles the flu to talk with Dan about late night television, binge watching, talking baby dolls, and the kind of artificial intelligence we really need.

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0:00.0

You should go take more walks take walks in the water you will be fine you do not need drugs

0:07.2

Hello, oh hi, Merlin. How is everything? Everything is great. Dan. How are you my friend good good big week huge week

0:15.8

How are you feeling has everything? I feel oh man. I feel great. Yeah good. I feel just full of

0:24.8

Life essence. Yeah, you sound you sound good to me really good

0:31.0

You should see what I see what is it a song just everything

0:36.8

Delirium

0:40.8

How's it going good good so you are but you're good. You're okay. You're ready to

0:45.7

Okay, yeah, yeah

0:48.8

Did how's it going it's good it's good down here? Mm-hmm

0:54.4

It's Tuesday. Yeah, Tuesday afternoon Tuesday. You well you doing good. Yes

1:00.1

It sounds like you might you might have something you might get getting something

1:04.4

Pretty good. How are you?

1:07.2

Good been reading some Alan Watts Wikipedia pages

1:11.6

Okay, here we go. Oh boy

1:15.1

How are you doing good? How are you really oh man? I'm very near the top of my game

1:23.5

You should you want to do this pretty good. Okay, pretty good

1:29.0

As a coffee

1:33.8

All right, I'm not gonna be able to cover this up

1:37.1

I don't want to talk a lot about it because it's boring. Yeah, I'm

1:40.7

Probably the sickest I've been in 15 years. Oh my god. Mm-hmm. I think I got a flavor of what you had over the over this guy

1:48.7

Dan, no, no, no, I'm not magical. I

1:52.6

Um

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