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Episode 32: The Beertruck Scenario

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2011

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Merlin and Dan talk about Dan's sabbatical, hotdogs, services, triggers, Quicksilver, Launchbar, and why there's no 'I' in 'ordnance.'

Sponsored by MailChimp and Smile.

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0:00.0

I dance a bad echo, wonderfully sponsored by my own chip, my own chip, my own chip,

0:27.1

It's a wonderful, national semi in the dust things with your male at scale, it's a chimp

0:38.1

the dust things and you know you worry about them. I've got a fire, I've got my mouth.

0:56.3

Does I think that was a better take. The second one was way better.

1:01.5

I think this is this is the show, there should be the whole show.

1:04.8

just wrap it up. Okay, I'll buy this up. Okay, I think I'm a little hot. You're always a lot.

1:14.6

I'm back on the Quicksilver. So I'm still kind of relearning things. And you know why?

1:21.5

Because of that buddy of yours, the critical guy. John Syracusa. Yes, John Syracusa. No,

1:27.9

seriously, he talked about it and I had another look. So now I'm back back on the Quicksilver.

1:32.3

Isn't that crazy? I just redid it too because of him. It's not right. Am I not hot enough now?

1:38.8

Can you hear me? You're great. Okay, you sure? Yeah. Okay. Oh, man, there's so much I didn't

1:45.1

even realize I haven't really properly welcomed you back yet. Should we do that first or should we

1:49.1

talk about things? No, let's talk about things that you can welcome me at any time. Well, they agree.

1:52.7

Totally agree. Okay, I'm gonna try this up a little bit. See, okay, here's the thing.

1:57.7

I have not eaten. I left time to eat. I thought I had time to eat. There's no hot talk

2:01.9

place. A few doors down. Don't be creepy. I go to the hot talk place. I walk in there. It's

2:06.3

literally full of high school students. Literally, the door can't open, the door can't close.

2:11.9

There's just there's just winners and people saying hella. And I don't have a prayer. There's no way

2:16.5

I can't eat. And you're not into that anymore. The thing. Yeah. I just the pictures.

2:27.1

Oh, the paleo. Yeah. Yeah. Um, if I were to be evaluated, did you not get lunches? I was just

2:34.5

trying to say you didn't get any. I'm trying to say is that these people are jackals and they should

2:37.3

be put into like a camp or some way they could be like renewable energy source because the teenagers

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