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Episode 285: A Baller VCR

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2016

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: Kids don't need VCR Plus+.

This week, Dan and Merlin continue their series on updates.

The topic this week is all about media consumption—in particular, the massive changes to how they learn about, locate, obtain, schedule, and consume media over the past decade or so.

Sure, there's the usual old man talk about how How It Used To Be, but there's a heavy focus on how these changes are changing the way media is funded and produced. What's that media landscape gonna look like when a 5-year-old playing with an iPad becomes the producer of media in a very few years?

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0:00.0

Hello.

0:02.0

Hello, how are you?

0:03.0

I am very good.

0:04.0

How are you?

0:05.0

Pretty good.

0:06.0

Ah, I am almost utterly unprepared today.

0:12.0

Almost?

0:13.0

Almost utterly.

0:15.0

Why do you sound so good?

0:17.0

Ah, because I try.

0:19.0

No, I mean, you really like something good is going on right now.

0:23.0

No.

0:24.0

You train something?

0:26.0

You know, I can speak very close to the microphone.

0:28.0

You know, it's a little, I made it a little louder.

0:30.0

I like it louder.

0:31.0

Sometimes I overdrive.

0:33.0

I also got this screen that Marco recommended.

0:39.0

This really funny.

0:40.0

You know Marco.

0:41.0

Marco always gets, not always.

0:42.0

He frequently gets a very high-end version of something he tests a bunch of them.

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