Episode 39: A Source of Rice with Velocity
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4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2011
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
On strength and tolerance.
Dan and Merlin talk about the many facets of strength, including the complexity of knowing what to be strong about, to whom, and when.
It's about way more than nailing the "clean and jerk" or yelling at Sips-His-Coffee-Really-Loud Guy. It's also about accepting all the things they just can't stand about you.
Also covered: the inescapability of Italian disco, maintaining an unassailable lawn, confronting skinny ladies in heels, negotiating D-minus hip-hop, and finding the will to spelunk all the way down the personal productivity stack.
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- Giorgio Moroder ? Chase (theme from Midnight Express) - YouTube
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You do what you gotta do. You do the things that you need to do. Understand? I do. |
| 0:15.9 | Okay. Okay. Okay. I didn't actually fall off. Good. I'm not sure I could tell if |
| 0:22.1 | it did. Can we say that though? You cut all this out. I would just assume that I'd |
| 0:27.5 | lost a little weight. Very, very, very little weight. Hey, look at that. I'm down to 10th |
| 0:34.4 | ounce. We're down to scale. Like a sliding scale. I never understood that phrase sliding |
| 0:42.5 | scale. It's like a slide rule but bigger. Isn't that where you go somewhere and you say, |
| 0:48.1 | you know, it's an art show. Please pay something sliding scale like a museum. Is that how |
| 0:53.4 | that works? A sliding scale. Yeah. It's like where everybody should have a chance to see |
| 0:59.3 | or do whatever it is that they're that they're pimping and they understand that not everybody |
| 1:04.6 | maybe can afford the price so they adjust the price based on what you can do. It seems |
| 1:09.5 | like passive aggressive donation where you'd say to somebody, well, here's my crappy Windows |
| 1:17.0 | golf game. I'd like it to be $4.99. But if you want to pay $0.50, I guess that'll have |
| 1:22.7 | to be okay with me. If you want to, if you want to come in and see this, this, you |
| 1:27.8 | know, paper mache Volvo that I've made, I'd like you to pay $14. But if you think it's |
| 1:33.4 | worth less than that, well, I guess that's just typical. I don't know. Should we have a |
| 1:38.8 | sliding scale? Good week for you so far. Oh, big week. It's been a huge week. Big. Oh |
| 1:43.5 | my gosh. Where do I begin? The news about Marco. Not a bad place to begin. Talk to the |
| 1:48.0 | talk that a little bit less. You're in my news about Marco. Big news about Marco. What |
| 1:55.3 | was your more big news? Did somebody email him? They're having a kid. We talked about them |
| 1:58.9 | in the last show. And it's, and the one where you apparently talked to him about many |
| 2:03.1 | vans is cute on my insta cast. I just haven't listened yet. Cute or cute? It's very cute. |
| 2:10.0 | It's very cute. Cute on my hands. That's like a rating. Would they, would they go, what |
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