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Episode 265: Especially Doris

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

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2016

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: Welcome to Costco. I love you.

This week, Dan and Merlin talk about breakfast sandwiches, the pain and suffering of dealing with Apple IDs, managing kids and their iOS devices, Merlin's weird week with Playstation Vue, and the science (or otherwise) behind iOS's Night Shift.

The main topic this week focuses on quality, values, and self-improvement. Are Dan and Merlin just cloud-yelling old men for wishing writers (and everyone for that matter) would try a little harder? Maybe. Maybe not.

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0:00.0

Good afternoon. Oh, good afternoon to you. I was being I've been California centric with

0:07.0

you and not acknowledging that you have a different time of day there. That's right. I apologize

0:11.5

for that. I owe you an amends. That's one of the steps, right? Isn't that a step one? Yeah.

0:18.0

Or in Ohio, in Ohio, basically, everyone's in some part of A A. We're all just always apologizing.

0:24.0

Are you in Ohio now? Oh, yeah. I'm right here. I am. I'm reporting live from the floor in Ohio. It's how good.

0:29.0

Thank you very much. I feel great. I would tell you that story one time. We're helping my grandma move and we're in clear water.

0:35.0

And we walk into a liquor store as you do. My mom and me. You can't you can't help but walk into a liquor store.

0:41.0

Yeah. I got a lot of stories about liquor stores. But we walk into a liquor store because because why?

0:45.0

Because they got the best boxes for moving, right? Life hack. So we walk in there and we walk. This is this is a true story.

0:52.0

We walk up to the liquor store, dude. And my my mother says, I'm sorry. Is there any chance that you have some boxes that we could take?

0:58.0

For moving? And a guy he turns her and says, are you from Cincinnati, Ohio?

1:03.0

What? What? And she said, yes. Are you a wizard? And he said, no, I just said, people from Cincinnati are the only people I know who begin their sentences with. I'm sorry.

1:15.0

That's good. That's pretty good. I got a lot of lot of anecdotes.

1:25.0

How well I'm having a stellar day. Yeah. Oh, man, I got it going on here. Well, obviously.

1:32.0

I got up at a decent time. You sound great. You sound really good. Do I really? Oh, thank you so much. I'm positively a mess. No, I feel good. I struggle like bull.

1:44.0

Yes. We have any technology in our house that we acquired that I'm really enjoying.

1:50.0

You are texting your daughter now. Oh, God. Is that technology? Well, that's that's an amazing new technology.

1:57.0

Oh, my goodness. It really feels different now. Yeah. I can talk about that a little. No, we have the Hamilton Beach dual breakfast sandwich maker in our house now.

2:06.0

The say this again. This is in the notes. Hamilton Beach dual breakfast sandwich maker. I know this is not going to be probably on the face of it. A good thing for you.

2:18.0

But could you see it easily make two delicious hot breakfast sandwiches at a time using your favorite bread meat.

2:26.0

Another ingredient sent under five minutes with the Hamilton Beach breakfast sandwich maker. It's innovative design cooks every sandwich layer to perfection. Watch it.

2:35.0

It's model model 2549 zero. The dual breakfast sandwich maker. It's affordable. I'll say that. It was affordable. I needed to well, honest saying it's a roundup in order for a prime now.

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