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Episode 343: Lo Sierra Mucho

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

4.7 β€’ 2.3K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 26 September 2017

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: Publix Hustle

This week, Dan and Merlin talk about grocery store promotions, transactional help, the racket of school photos, Occam's Razor for public schools, Time Machine troubleshooting, the scourge of The Crackle, and BMO the salesman.

The boys help a lot of people by responding to listener questions about the state of Siri, making friends after college, and the seeking of universal truth.

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0:00.0

Hello.

0:02.0

Hello, Marilyn. How are you?

0:04.0

I'm very well, Dan. How are you?

0:06.0

Doing good. Doing good.

0:08.0

Good, good, good. It's unseasonably warm here.

0:11.0

Oh, yeah. How warm is it?

0:13.0

How warm is it? What do you think?

0:15.0

Watch. It says 76 degrees,

0:18.0

which is pretty, pretty warm.

0:21.0

Heat wave. They're warning people. Go get in a pool or see a movie.

0:25.0

What is that average temperature, you know, for this time of year normally?

0:29.0

What is the average temperature for September in San Francisco?

0:37.0

Oh, you can help me on my phone. Thanks, buddy.

0:41.0

Let's see.

0:43.0

Oh, I came up with websites.

0:45.0

Oh, this one coming to, this is actually one of our questions today.

0:48.0

You know, this is our warm time of year, because people love it when old men talk about the weather.

0:53.0

Yeah.

0:54.0

We could talk about the weather. We could talk about the government.

0:57.0

High, high, high.

0:59.0

It's, it's the warm time.

1:01.0

September and October are when it gets warm here and it's just weird.

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