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Episode 302: Rabbi for the Rabbi

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2016

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

This week, the boys talk about slicing sand, unboxing videos, Overwatch, and some recommended TV viewing. Odds and sods, as you say.

Main topic is follow-up re: listener feedback on recent Apple conversations.

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0:00.0

Hello. Hello. How are you? Good afternoon, Dan. I'm doing very well. How are you? Pretty good.

0:06.3

Pretty pretty good. Just cutting some sand over here. Yeah, you got to tell me about this. This is

0:11.6

all new to me. It's new to me too. I have never been an Instagram user and I realize I'm missing

0:19.0

out on lots of things. Yeah, Instagram is a lot of fun. There are some really, really fun things

0:26.7

on Instagram. And so this is one of them. Yeah, tell me about I cut sand. I cut sand. There is

0:33.0

an Instagram user who one of them is I cut sand. There's another one who sand. He is festive.

0:42.1

And basically what they do is they make a... And the video seemed pretty well done. And they are

0:50.7

close-miking. And it's just a video of this. There's this kind of sand that I think it's called

0:58.6

Kinetic Sand. Have you seen this stuff in like for kids? Oh, is it like what they call like Moon?

1:06.0

Yeah. Is it sort of like Moon? Yeah. Sand? Yeah. And it's sort of... It's really super fine. And when

1:13.4

you make it into a mold, it doesn't look like sand. Right. And it seems like it would be sticky.

1:20.8

That's what that is. Yeah. Because it seems like you would be sticky, but it's not sticky. And if you

1:25.4

put your hands in it and take your hands out, like it doesn't stick to your hands or anything,

1:30.3

it's very cool. Well, people are apparently making molds of this in like in a bread pan or in a flour

1:38.1

pot or whatever, top or wear container. And then they put it down and then they've got it close-miked.

1:45.5

And they take a long knife and they just sort of slowly or sometimes quickly cut through. And it makes

1:54.4

this very satisfying sound and appearance. And it is just... Yeah, it's just...

2:06.8

Well, it's... So, yeah, I mean, just just for people who haven't looked at this, it seems like I'm

2:11.3

just looking at the homepage for I cut sand. And so they form it into some kind of a shape.

2:16.6

Usually, like at first I thought it was like one of those Google listening in your house devices

2:20.8

when you sent the link. It could be something like a bowl, it could be a cylinder, it could be like a

2:25.5

bullet shape. And so it starts with the camera just on this thing on a white background. Right.

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