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Episode 272: Surprise Endoscopy

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2016

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: Such small hands.

This week, Dan and Merlin talk about Dan's acquisition of an iPhone SE and how much he's loving it. This leads to some ruminative discussion about how we pick devices based on how we prefer to use them.

Also, some love for Spider-Man in the Civil War movie.

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0:00.0

Hello. Hello. Hi, Dan. Hi. How are you? Good. What's up? What up, Bay? What's you working

0:09.1

on up there? We're up there. Just chilling. Mm-hmm. Taking a... Yeah, I'm kicking it just

0:15.3

with the one leg. Uh-huh. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Same for the other one for Elijah.

0:20.6

Yeah. That's right. I'm gonna give him a piece of my foot. Chair is open and they would

0:25.4

open the door too. Yeah. They would have a cup. They would have a chair and they'd open the

0:29.0

door. Do you eat the bitter herbs so you just look at them? Nah, eat everything. You never

0:33.3

know the chair. Yeah, everything you got. Whatever you got. Really? Yeah, you get the herbs

0:37.6

and eat them. You have to eat them. What do you dip them in? Salt? The salt water. For the

0:41.7

bitter herbs and the... In the tears. It's a little bit on the nose. Not to be being pungent.

0:47.5

Well, it's from a long time ago. Yeah. And then people would miss the subtlety if you weren't

0:53.7

hit them in the face with it, so to speak. You know, so much of religion and spirituality

0:59.4

is based on analogy. You probably have a lot of fun with that. You know, make it very,

1:03.3

very literal. I believe it would look a little something like this. Got nothing. Yeah,

1:11.6

that's it. Were you doing a satire or something? Did you just do a satire? I barely even know.

1:17.6

What has happened to the show? Stupid. Stupid, man. I know it is. I've been sleeping well,

1:26.5

which is good. I can hear it in your voice that you have. No, you can't. No, I can't. Yeah,

1:31.7

you can't. I can't. Yeah. The cat's warming up to us. That's nice. She's getting warm

1:36.6

all the time. Yeah. I'll send you a photo. She does a new thing when she gets very relaxed.

1:41.8

She lays down. She curls up in a ball and then turns her head upside down. And it's pretty.

1:47.3

Pretty cute. Pretty cute. I heard it. I do not have much prepared at all. That's the

1:57.6

most. These are my favorite ones. Really? You could go anywhere, Bay. You go, you go,

2:01.1

oh, that is very cute. Look at that head. Look at that head upside down. Yes. Did you hide? Yes.

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