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Episode 431: Costly Branded Waiting

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

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2019

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

First and most importantly, Dan is back! Woo!

Second, now, listen: please bear with me, and do not leave. Because, when I say we talked mostly about Disney—and especially Disney properties—it's way more interesting than you'd think. Or, so we hope.

Essentially, Walt Disney World in particular has the control, data, and means to be extremely good at resource management, and that's just fascinating to think about.

There's also some thank-you's, as well as some podcast recommendations, plus a response to a listener's question about choosing to use Apple's native apps.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, Merlin. How are you? Good morning, dad. Good.

0:05.3

Very well. Yeah, that's good. Good. Very good. Very good indeed.

0:09.5

Rather.

0:11.5

So how was your week been?

0:17.5

How you did? You did. I'm all right. You did the solo show. I apologize about it.

0:24.4

Well, I haven't listened to it yet. I haven't listened to it yet.

0:26.8

That's not the point. The point is how you feeling. I've filled. No, I'm still not

0:31.5

normally at the end. Okay, I'll drive. I'm going to drive this. Yeah. Yeah.

0:34.6

It was I went. I went to Walt Disney World Orlando Orlando. Well, sorry, you said it.

0:41.4

Sorry, because that me. Yeah. Because me, right. And since the cloud, one little detail I

0:45.4

should notice Walt Disney World is the entire entire area, which is made up of a handful

0:52.6

of parks and resorts and shopping and restaurants and lots of other things. Walt Disney World

0:59.5

is not the magic kingdom. The magic kingdom is inside of Walt Disney World. And a lot of

1:05.1

people say, I went to Disney World and they'll say, really, which park I went to Disney World

1:09.6

known that you went. So actually, Franketsdine is the doctor. That's that's right. That's

1:15.0

right. You know, Franketsdine is monster. Super set. Super set is a subset. Yes. And I

1:20.8

deeper in the staggy, close to the metal, that's the monster of kingdom. No manclature. No,

1:26.6

no man's country for old Disney. So yeah, but there's a reason there's a reason for that

1:32.2

for folks like me, which is that until I want to say 1900 and what 81, the magic kingdom

1:39.0

for practical purposes equaled equaled. It did. It did. It was just the magic kingdom.

1:42.9

They hadn't built Epcot center. Yeah. But back, tell you when I was a kid, you had, I've

1:49.8

memory serves. You had, I'm sorry, you're thinking me sick. I hope, God, I hope not. I'm

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