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Episode 332: Piggybacking on Anger

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

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2017

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: Making the spice flow.

This week, Dan and Merlin dive into the thriving ecosystem of Florida's ad hoc roofing and lawn care professionals. Merlin gets The Boeing Contract, and Dan leaves a check under the mat.

Your hosts admit they don't really understand the big kerfuffle over 1Password, but they admit to feeling the pain of being an indie developer today. Dan just wants the beef ribs he'd been promised.

Around 1:19:30, the spoiler horn fires off for a squee-filled celebration of Spider-Man: Homecoming. (Seriously. Just go see this movie.)

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0:00.0

The eye of the monkey circus. Don't you go and

0:04.4

circus or shoot at your people. This is what we call

0:09.9

Able.

0:12.9

Hello. Hello boss. How are you doing?

0:15.0

That very good. How are you? Just fine.

0:22.4

Oh God. Jesus Christ.

0:26.8

What's going on? I mean, I thought there would be so much news about email. You know?

0:34.7

I mean, email is the main thing in the news now. That's what people want to hear about.

0:39.5

That's what they want to. I don't like it. I don't like it. I want to go away.

0:44.1

I want to all go away. I'm going to buck up in a minute. This is going to be a loud one.

0:50.3

We have rufurs. Really? What's going on?

0:55.6

Well, you know, this rufurs and so there's a scaffolding.

1:02.2

There is one of those giant orange tubes that you use to jettison to try this from the rufur.

1:10.8

Oh yeah. And right outside the front door, I said, I have a leaf blower. Just sitting there,

1:19.0

check out the revolver. That's wonderful. You know, at some point, I don't know what they're

1:23.9

going to blow with a leaf blower. Maybe they got to make sure things get down the tube.

1:28.0

But right now, it's a ground level. 15, 20 feet away.

1:33.7

Wow. That'll be fun. They seem nice. It's tough. A lot of rufurs are crazy, at least in Florida.

1:40.5

Rufurs always had the rep. We had the strangest experience with getting a house totally re-ruved.

1:49.3

A wonderful experience. I still look back on it. There was a guy that did roofs in our neighborhood.

1:59.8

I don't know if he had a business. I don't know just a guy.

2:04.7

You just see a fixer, like a local guy. He's off the radar screen. Maybe he's not pulling all the

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