Episode 367: A Favorite Child

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

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2018

⏱️ 80 minutes

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This week, your hosts talk about some stuff they're doing, loving Spotify, some Echo podcast-listening tips, the attraction of Google Drive, some thoughts on backup strategies, getting swole, the joys of rock tumbler ownership, scary times in Austin, weird iMac problems, some more thoughts on backup strategies, Merlin's obsession with drumming videos, and yet more Apple TV foibles.

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0:00.0	Hello, Merlin. How are you? I'm fine, Dan. How are you doing pretty good? It's Tuesday
0:07.5	Yeah, Tuesday. That's right. It's our day
0:12.5	Moving windows closing windows here I am
0:16.8	Dude do things. I don't have that that much today. I've got some things but not many things
0:20.7	Okay, well is today the right day to do those today's the day. Yes, of course
0:25.5	We've been of how long ago did we get that?
0:30.0	No, let's find out
0:33.3	It's been a couple years good good year
0:39.3	It's been a while I
0:42.1	I redacted the listener's name
0:49.7	I'm just curious I'm just killing time oh
0:56.0	That was received January 30th
0:59.0	So what we're talking about is a note we got a long time ago that we keep meaning to answer that's not bad
1:02.9	I mean, let's be honest. That's not that long ago. Yeah, but it's like eight episodes
1:09.0	It's I guess we have yeah
1:12.0	Yeah
1:14.0	Doing something Beatles related for another show that I do and one of my co-host was saying man he leave they did all that
1:20.0	You know the main the meat of the Beatles public and especially like US career took place over about seven years
1:28.0	Okay, that's almost as long as we've been doing the show. That's what I said
1:32.7	The Beatles did everything that they did and the time we've done this podcast
1:35.5	I I feel like our body of work is comparable. I mean to be performing on a roof
1:42.5	You mean to do more in addition with my Japanese girlfriend
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