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Episode 351: Your Chest Is a Tunnel

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2017

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

This week, your hosts discuss: holiday disruptions, life patterns, the joys of regularity, discovering unnecessary existential vulnerabilities, scheduling as a video game, getting your head around sous vide cooking, modern kids' arithmetic, CBD dosage stuff, using the Sway app, meditation for improving attention management, dealing with the character who speaks your internal voice, some hot tips on starting meditation, a historical video series Merlin's family likes, a quest for a typeface, nostalgia for teeny tiny fonts, a listener question about how to end a conference call, a recommendation for Netflix's The Punisher, and some angry attempts to conceal ma' secret formular.

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0:00.0

hello hey merlin good morning how are you dad i'm doing good how are you

0:06.8

oh god i was distracted sorry i'm reading about the guy who does the radio

0:11.6

head piano covers and i got distracted oh i haven't heard those are they good

0:16.9

you see what's world of course oh those well that's i think i'm pretty sure

0:23.1

that's him but he does west world radio head i think that is him but i have to

0:32.7

be sure am i you know i might not be him but anyways there's this guy his

0:37.5

handle on twitter is Josh Cohen music and i tweeted one of these out last night

0:44.4

but if you just go to go to youtube and search for like radio head piano

0:49.8

they're really really you know it's i love the way people choose to arrange music

0:55.3

sort of along the lines of that video from last week about never say a song

0:59.5

is so you know easy we're like you hear an arrangement of a song you're like how

1:03.2

is that single instrument capturing like every nuance and little funny note

1:07.7

that makes that song that song right and the piano is so perfectly suited for

1:12.0

that it's amazing so these videos are just like an overhead shot of Josh Cohen

1:16.4

playing the piano and he just plays the song and you watch him play it on

1:19.5

piano and the arrangements are amazing Josh Cohen I like music a lot yeah you are

1:26.5

into music and music seems to deeply affect you and I like that all you do

1:30.5

thank you buddy yeah I suppose it does I listen to podcasts way more than

1:35.0

music these days but but you know like this morning friend of mine on Twitter

1:39.5

mentioned they'll need a crane by the might be giants yeah to go listen to it

1:43.7

yeah to go listen to it but I wouldn't listen to dr. worm because I will not

1:48.4

allow that in my head my kids in my head that's their favorite it's a fantastic

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