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Episode 260: Stuck in Green Forever

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2016

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: Grab Bag.

This week, Dan and Merlin cover the waterfront. This wide-ranging episode covers lots of listener feedback, corrections of egregious errors, D&D alignment, the danger of guessing why people are how they are, some fun Tumblr recommendations, considering the yak-shaving ordeal of time-shifting broadcast TV, plus further discussion of last week's topic re: kids and computer access.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

And here's the crazy thing about the music, man.

0:01.6

Is they're kind of singing this thing a little bit,

0:02.9

the thing a little bit, a little bit here,

0:04.2

and a little bit there.

0:04.9

It's kind of a singing, but it's not really singing,

0:06.4

because they're really just talking like this.

0:07.6

Like that, like this, like that, like that.

0:09.1

What do you say?

0:09.9

What do you know what I'm talking like this?

0:10.9

I got a fever now.

0:11.7

My head's so hot, it's hot, like a head.

0:13.4

Hot, like a head in Indiana, Indiana.

0:15.6

What do you say?

0:16.5

What do you know?

0:18.1

Hello.

0:19.2

Hello.

0:20.0

Hello.

0:21.0

Aloha.

0:21.8

Aloha.

0:22.8

Hello.

0:23.6

Hi.

0:24.5

Hi, hi.

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