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Episode 378: A Hong Kong Phooey Situation

Back to Work

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2018

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Discussed this week: media dustups, the deleterious career effects of social media, a week or so of Instagram, love of dogs, a podcast appearance, two great services for spotting fake Amazon reviews, some Netflix recommendations, Inspector Gadget, remastering Star Trek, kids and black & white movies, serious mail, inventing The Sabbath, and some freestyle advice.

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0:00.0

Hello. Hey, Marilyn. Hi, Dan. How are you? I love that pregnant pause in the beginning

0:05.7

while we wait for our Skype or whatever to call record or to catch up whatever it

0:10.3

is that happens over there. It's not just me. No, I know it's not. So I remember

0:14.3

it's a question that's not just me. It's not just me. I don't know who it is. Who

0:20.9

is it? Who does it? I don't know who does that. Who does that? Who does those? Hi. This

0:25.3

is Robert Skype with an important message. This is Susan E. Cam. Hi. Thanks, Robert.

0:31.9

My name is Susan E. Cam. So what's new? What's the news? Oh, big, big doings. That's

0:40.6

my grandfather used to say. Yeah. Yeah. What? ABC canceled Roseanne. They did. They did.

0:50.0

I am aware that the new season came out. I heard that it was controversial or something

0:55.1

in some way. It's just weird. We're certainly going to be hearing a lot about it. But let's

0:59.6

talk about happy things here on our back to work program. It's a big Tuesday, a big

1:04.2

beautiful Tuesday after a little depending on how many days you take off a three day weekend.

1:09.4

Oh, they just canceled. They literally like nine minutes ago. It's literally just canceled

1:17.0

it. Yes. Yes. And boy, are we ever going to be hearing about it soon? Oof. Oof. We can't

1:24.1

talk about this stuff on the show. It's just that's what everybody's talking about. I

1:26.7

have a coffee. I'm looking over Twitter. I'm going to close that tab. Political Twitter

1:30.7

is blowing up. I want to get on political Twitter. What do I do? How do I get on that?

1:36.9

Well, the history of political Twitter is that a separate Twitter. Yes. Yes. It's a

1:44.5

Twitter just for that. Yes. I will put it into show notes. Oh gosh. No. Why is texting

1:53.0

me about Rosanne? Okay. She's just talk about it. No. Well, okay. Okay. Okay. So first

1:59.7

of all, political Twitter. Political Twitter. This started with my friend Max Temkin, who I podcasted

2:05.3

another co-host with. He started a list of like during the election of people he was following

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