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Episode 360: I Haven't Lost My Knife

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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 24 January 2018

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

This week, Dan and Merlin talk a lot about writing and respond to feedback from listeners.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello.

0:02.0

Hey, Merlin, how are you?

0:03.5

I'm great, Dan. How are you?

0:05.0

I'm very good. Who is this photo of in your Skype?

0:10.0

Oh, that's a character from the TV show Patriot.

0:13.0

Oh, okay, okay. His name is in the show they call him John Lakeman.

0:17.0

Okay.

0:18.0

Because he looks familiar to me as an actor, but I couldn't place him.

0:24.0

He's originally New Zealandese.

0:27.0

Oh, okay. I think he lives in Australia now.

0:31.0

Okay. That's the same difference.

0:33.0

Yeah. Yeah. They don't like that.

0:36.0

They give very upset when you conflate the two.

0:39.0

New Zealand and Australia.

0:41.0

I think the New Zealand people are very kind people.

0:46.0

And I think the land is very different from the Australian land.

0:52.0

And they don't like to be lumped in with the Australians

0:57.0

because they have a whole different nation.

1:01.0

That's certainly one way to put it. Yeah.

1:04.0

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah.

1:07.0

People in Canada, they don't like it when you just assume it's part of the United States.

1:11.0

You know.

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