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Episode 278: Yelling at an Idea

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2016

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: People, amirite?

This week, Dan and Merlin talk about the complexities of communicating with each other. And, brother, is it ever complicated.

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0:00.0

Hello, hello, hello, how are you? He's back. Good afternoon, Dan. Good afternoon, Dan.

0:13.3

How was your morning? Very well, thank you. How's everything up there?

0:21.3

My morning was quite delicious. One enjoys one's constitutional,

0:28.8

amidst ones, environments, in the embrace of one's immediate preoccupations.

0:37.3

First of all, memories accumulate from one's transcendent matriculations and amused one at length.

0:43.8

One's mornings adapt to one's accommodations, one's obligations.

0:50.7

Real or often as not imagined? This is great. One enjoys recounting one's constitutional

0:59.9

book bag, Brexit, biennial, bulbous, bibulous, bottom bumping. One enjoys one's bibulous, bottom bumping.

1:13.5

One remains, one of Bides. You've got the Chinese guy over here. We've got no soup.

1:21.7

We've got the Jew over here, not me, not me. One enjoys one's casually racist jokes.

1:28.4

One's constitutional. What's his name? We gotta figure out who that is. I don't know.

1:35.8

It's stolen somewhat. That's very good. Thank you very much. It's stolen somewhat from a character

1:42.9

Peter Seraphinoids does. Have you ever seen Brian Butterworth?

1:49.0

Is he the one with the sensible breakfast? Yeah, with all the crazy food. I know who you mean.

1:57.9

With the food there's like, I can't have more food, more food, more. The butterfield diet.

2:04.1

The butterfield diet, that's it. This was me. I love Peter Seraphinoids too much.

2:13.9

You're not a Parks and Rec guy, right? No, no, I'm saving it. I've been saving it.

2:17.6

I've been talking about other things. Yeah. He's on in the penultimate season.

2:24.0

And he, Peter Seraphinoids, who you know from lots of things, he know from Guardians of the Galaxy,

2:28.8

you know him as the voice of Darth Maul. Very funny British comic. And he is the, you won't

2:33.9

appreciate this, but he's the British version of Andy. Starlord from Parks and Rec. And I think

2:39.6

it's because he probably met Starlord doing Guardians of the Galaxy. He comes on in a

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