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Episode 258: Means of Egress

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2016

⏱️ 105 minutes

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TOPIC: Feelings, Slide Rules, and The Franklin Test

This week Merlin hasn't had enough coffee and may have early-onset toxoplasmosis, so he and Dan respond to great feedback from listeners, mostly on feeling feelings.

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0:00.0

Don't be a jerk said his older brother. I know what to do said his father to his mother

0:07.9

Hello good mollings sir good mollin dad. How are you doing well doing well doing well by doing good?

0:17.1

I don't know what the deal is with this this fake accent. I like it. I like it more every week

0:21.7

I don't know it's awful. What is it? What is it? What what am I supposed to be am I like John houseman? What am I?

0:26.1

barriers outside communication? I like it. Do left. Do left. I look to your right now. Stop looking in other places. Look at me

0:36.4

And it reminds me of the the thing my driving instructor said to me look left go left

0:43.4

Hmm. Don't know what it means. You lead with your eyes. You also eat first with your eyes

0:52.4

This one sees salty

0:56.4

Oh my eyes. How was the super how was the Super Bowl up there?

1:00.9

How was how was the game the event the impact yeah? Yeah, all good yeah five by five

1:08.1

Big wins everybody's happy. Yes, bud light to lose any money on the game

1:15.4

Just my soul just your soul just my soul. Yeah, I had to soul it three to two

1:19.9

I don't know what that means I I watched most of the game. I watched a lot of the game

1:25.7

Yeah, it's been it's had quite an impact. Excuse me a little bit of horse. I'm a pony. I'm a tiny horse. I'm a tiny one

1:30.7

I just bought I bought my little girl a little horse today

1:34.6

Like a humanity horse. No, it doesn't move or anything. It's a bread bread or a prayer horse a prayer horse

1:40.5

I think it's like a donkey like a donkey horse. It's a hold on it says

1:45.7

It's a it's a you know, it's a little it's a little prayer. It's it's one of those horses that some

1:50.9

Looks very realistic, but it's frozen in a single position for all eternity. I know what you mean. It's a high quality horse

1:56.9

Yeah, yeah, I've seen those they come in the government bins

1:59.9

Did they oh, oh those are different. Okay. This is this is a bespoke prayer. Braille is a higher end than the I think the

2:07.7

Shlake shlake shlake. Oh, I was thinking the shleg. Yeah, I was thinking the shleg bins

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