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Episode 31: You Can Polish AC/DC All Day Long

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2011

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

With Dan on sabbatical, Merlin is joined by John Roderick of The Long Winters to talk about life as a bull in a china closet, craving real-world constraints, making better records, and being banned for life from Interpol’s corn chip bowl.

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0:00.0

When I say your name, when you're not around, I do it to the tune of nasty boys by Janet

0:22.3

Jackson.

0:23.3

I don't know why, but I don't, I don't care why.

0:26.9

I just love it.

0:27.9

I'm just glad, I'm glad you think of me, I, for you, I, I always do Mercedes boy, how

0:36.1

does that go?

0:37.1

Let's see.

0:38.1

Do you want to ride on my John Roderick?

0:40.3

Oh, that sounds, I never realized how dirty your name sounds like Peter O'Toole.

0:44.2

I'm, I'm stealing that from Groucho Marx.

0:47.6

There are so many ways I'm like Peter O'Toole and a few crucial ways I'm not.

0:53.7

You're tall, you're slender, you're English, you're in the fashion, in that Pixar movie

0:58.2

I like drunk.

1:01.4

I enjoy him.

1:02.4

I really enjoy him.

1:03.4

Well, there's another one on the MPR, there's a show that's sponsored by the Robert Wood

1:07.2

Johnson Foundation.

1:08.2

I laugh out loud every time I hear that.

1:11.0

I want Robert to be a dick name too, just because if you can get the triple threat.

1:15.2

Dick Wood Johnson.

1:16.2

His lesser name brother Richard, they, they couldn't name the foundation after him, they just,

1:21.8

they found the grants were just disappearing.

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