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Episode 423: It Only Hurts for a Minute

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2019

⏱️ 88 minutes

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DISCUSSED: Dan and Merlin get hungry, but they've had it with all the bread; the trough food is so costly; no one is sweating Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons; Marvel-ish movies are discussed, including the new one with Lady Sansa; Merlin is very concerned about aphasias; Dan introduces us to Forbidden Snacks and endorses his new shoe appliance; shoe appliances are then discussed; Dan hasn't had to use his sword…yet; people sure love them some pencils; there was some weather, so the seder got all fakakte; the finer points of Judaism and sundry Hebraica are clarified; Dan got scrolls-on-tape from a sympathetic cantor; Buster Scruggs is recommended; the boys receive a quick surprise visit from the great Tom Waits; and, finally, your hosts talk about a terrific YouTube video about what we can all learn from our worst trainwrecks.

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0:00.0

They drive along the pipeline, they tangle to their shore.

0:04.6

Leave behind the nightmares, and leave them by the door.

0:09.2

Hello.

0:09.8

Hey, Merlin.

0:11.2

Hi, Dan. How are you?

0:12.3

I'm hungry. I'm very hungry. How are you?

0:14.3

What are you hungry for?

0:15.7

Ah, it's food. Any kind of food.

0:17.9

Okay.

0:18.4

Just any, I don't believe that. Any kind of food.

0:22.5

Do you crave protein?

0:24.0

I crave, yeah, I crave it all.

0:25.5

I crave, there's nothing I don't crave.

0:27.1

I must have some kind of blood problem.

0:29.4

Yeah.

0:29.7

You know what's going on with your blood.

0:31.5

Might be my pituitary.

0:32.9

Can I look at it?

0:34.2

Yes.

0:34.8

My blood?

0:35.3

Yeah.

0:36.4

You want to run the full array?

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