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Episode 239: Starving African Child

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2015

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: Block! Block! Body blow! Uppercut!

This week, Dan and Merlin talk less about ad-blocking and more about what kind-of feels like (but might not actually be) a point of change for web advertising, podcasting, and media as a whole, which could affect, like, everything, man.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, welcome back today we're talking about it had blocking and how it will represent the end of literally everything

0:09.2

Good morning sir. How are you today? I'm fine. How are you pretty good pretty good close call for you

0:16.4

Uh huh with your uh almost uh being gone today. Oh oh yeah yeah uh and I'm breaking the trend because usually

0:26.8

uh when I get called for duty, jury duty, I almost always have to go in. Yes. So here's I don't know

0:33.2

Here's the thing. Here's the way this works. You're ahead jury duty. No

0:37.6

God I get it hard. I get it so heavy. You have had more jury duty than anybody else I've ever met

0:45.4

Yeah, no it's pretty remarkable actually. I've got a lot of jury duty

0:49.6

So what happens is you get this notice and it says oh get ready for this week where your life's gonna be

0:53.7

Upside down maybe

0:56.4

And then and then let you know you get a you get a note that says you know you get a call in on this Friday to find out

1:01.8

I think you need John Monday. Mm-hmm

1:03.9

And then well if you come they need you to come in on Monday basically you call every day

1:09.4

So uh I dodge the big bullet the big bullet is Friday because if they don't need John Monday

1:15.1

Like that's a really good sign and then they didn't need me today either. I celebrated. I had I made Brussels sprouts to celebrate last

1:20.6

Oh wow how do you make them? Oh

1:24.4

Brother do you really want to know? Yeah, of course sure 87 a beta 87 a oh the Marco Mike

1:31.0

Yes, and then so what I do is first of all I make a package of bacon

1:35.6

And I take it out, you know, and I you know

1:39.2

Drain it off and everything I leave some of the grease in there. I cut up two pounds

1:44.0

Quote unquote two pounds of Brussels sprouts and if you ever made Brussels sprouts, you know you throw half of it away

1:49.6

It's horrible horrible once you once you feel your Brussels sprouts you throw half of it away. Yeah

1:54.0

I should make them into a stock or put in a slurry

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