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Episode 407: The Wad-Shooter Option

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2019

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

DISCUSSED: "Rabbit Rabbit!"; partial shutdown and the toilet problems it creates; updates on options for Bluetooth keyboards; some extremely random and anecdotal reckoning about the recent Big Apple News; your hosts' beef with Wirecutter; some odds and sods recommendations and cool life hacks.

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0:00.0

Hello, hello, Marilyn.

0:03.4

Good morning, Dan.

0:04.6

How are you?

0:05.6

Fine.

0:06.6

Happy New Year.

0:07.6

Is it New Year?

0:08.6

Two, a couple days in, two, three days in.

0:10.8

Is it?

0:11.8

Did you do anything special?

0:13.8

Yes.

0:14.8

Everything I do is special by definition.

0:16.3

Yeah?

0:17.3

Yeah, my poly.

0:18.3

Yeah.

0:19.3

No, I don't acknowledge holidays.

0:24.3

Yeah.

0:25.3

No.

0:26.3

Yeah.

0:27.3

Yeah.

0:28.3

It's very important to me in our household that once it passes midnight or generally

0:33.9

when you first wake up on the first day of the month, you have to say rabbit rabbit.

0:37.1

Right.

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