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Episode 317: Zero Gun Salute

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2017

⏱️ 80 minutes

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After some very important follow-up, and more than a little shucking and jiving, your hosts answer questions from listeners.

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0:00.0

Hi, Merlin. Hi, Dan. How are you doing?

0:07.6

Uh, it's been a been a weird morning. Yeah, weird how? Well, you know, uh, you know, it's been,

0:15.5

nays mostly been a good morning. I got a lot accomplished. I prepared for the program.

0:19.6

But I realized around 915 this morning that I drank three kombuchas yesterday. Is that more

0:27.3

than usual? Ask me how I realized it. How did you realize it? You don't want to know.

0:33.2

Does it have a digestive effect? It's a living beverage rejoice. Oh my gosh. Oh god, it's got a lot of

0:40.0

probiotics. And, uh, oh, hey, how's it going there, buddy? Uh, I don't know, I get rid of some of these

0:45.7

bottles. So, so what was the most you've ever had if you ever pushed the system before in the past?

0:51.8

Well, when I first started, before I'd really developed a taste for it, I was having, you know,

0:56.7

one slowly and then, you know, it's like any kind of powder. I once you get into it, you really start,

1:02.8

you start really stuffing it in there so you're like a freaking mummy. Yeah, jamming it. You're

1:06.0

jamming it literally literally into every crevice of your body to express your full masculine

1:10.6

potential in your and your grill and mindset. You want to get all that really jammed in there.

1:13.7

Precious precious bodily fluid precious, uh, per pepe, pepe, purity of essence. I will no longer

1:20.2

sit back and allow communist infiltration communist indoctrination and the international communist

1:26.4

conspiracy to sap and impureify all of our precious bodily fluids. Do you think there's anyone in

1:33.3

our audience who hasn't seen that movie yet? Boy, it's a good movie. You're gonna have to answer

1:38.3

the Coca-Cola company. Um, so I was able to spend some time preparing my, uh, my wireless device.

1:46.8

Mm-hmm. Boy, oh boy. Mm-hmm. It's really neat. You get to like, really revisit a lot of what you

1:52.7

enjoyed yesterday. Kind of like scrubbing. It's like, it's like a, a life in review.

1:59.0

Mm-hmm. Yeah, exactly. It's like predestination. It just spend its quality time with yourself.

2:04.8

From now on, I'm gonna call diarrhea, the bootstrap paradox. Oh my god. So I says,

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