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Episode 374: Pouchboy

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

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2018

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Discussed: places that are closed, dinosaur eyes that follow you, a TV show about makeup, some thoughts on Infinity War, the joy of content that really nails the medium, more on B2W shirts, Merlin hates everything, eminent domain, Dan has questions about Venom, Merlin recommends Uncanny X-Force (Remender & Opeña), and Rob Liefeld's pouch life.

Your hosts also answer listener questions about finding a mentor and knowing if it's time to move on from a job.

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0:00.0

hello hello merlin hi dan how are you i'm a good how are you oh i'm really good

0:07.4

yeah my had a morning sandwich some kind of full well good last time if i remember right

0:13.1

you were very hungry oh i don't know what the deal is with yummy yummy they make such good

0:18.7

fun but how are you not open on a Tuesday now in florida a lot of stuff closes on mondays yeah

0:23.4

the asian places yeah the asian places are all closed on uh well let's not that's what it was

0:28.2

anytime you want to go and eat you know far or chinese food or korean food is closed on monday

0:33.5

i feel like it was uh i don't know i don't know i mean you know it could just be one of those things

0:37.7

where like there's just not enough business on mondays or it could be a cult i don't know why i

0:42.6

i have a theory about it i don't know if it's right but i think that because they're open

0:47.8

all week and weekends for you know as a lot of people when i remembered a lot of people did take out

0:53.9

sometimes you go to the restaurant and there wouldn't even be a table in there you maybe one

0:59.1

and there would be like an employee sitting at that table and it was all takeout business

1:03.1

everything was taking smoking probably smoking yes people are always smoking and so maybe they

1:07.9

have to close down on one day and they figured that the one day they should do it is the day that's

1:11.7

the slowest which like you said is monday that's my theory okay i think it's a good theory i think

1:16.6

is a good theory yeah you know we get a lot of in my neighborhood we get a lot of coffee places

1:24.0

that come and go in like fewer than two years sometimes like a year and like i don't know my

1:31.6

my wife and i like we but we feel like cassandra or something because we're like the coffee place

1:35.6

opens and you go and you say hey welcome to the neighborhood like you know break a leg i hope it

1:40.4

goes really great right and and then like in my case i'm taking my kid to school in the morning

1:44.8

i'm like you know what i'll pop into the new coffee place yeah and i'll get a coffee and i'll give

1:49.0

a big tip and like no they don't open to like eight and it's like what's the both like

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