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Episode 442: Dog Eating Chair Digestion

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2019

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Dan and Merlin discuss the upcoming big Apple event and why this one's potentially interesting. Also, dog anecdotes.

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0:00.0

Hello. Hello, Merlin. No, no, no. How are you doing today? Very well. I'm recording live

0:07.5

from the show floor. Yes. That's right. A big big day today. We're hearing a lot of

0:12.1

very, very exciting buzz. Yeah. Coming out of, I guess, Cupertino today. So it's very

0:19.6

exciting. People with people who are a bus. Yeah. Yeah. It should be a big day. We're hearing

0:25.1

very strong rumors from a game of Rambo. There will be Apple Watch. We'll be available

0:29.4

in Bondi Blue. That's going to be coming in Q6. Can't wait. Yeah. We're hearing very

0:35.8

strong buzz that there will be several stills shown from both of the launch day shows for Apple

0:43.0

TV Plus. And most excited, there's going to be a lottery where one lucky attendant gets

0:51.3

to look at Eddie Q's part of gold. He's over here.

0:56.3

I got my costs. I thought I'd be sure to call it a crash here, man. Yeah. One two weeks,

1:03.8

Max. Is that cool? Are you going to be a take about a talk? Good morning, Dan. How are

1:09.2

you? Pretty good. Pretty good. Oh, God. It's really, I'm sorry. I'm late. I, I, I, you

1:16.8

had to make coffee. Hey, hey, yes, I did. Was it good? I don't know. It's like I made

1:25.5

like a little dinky like, listen, it's barely anything there. It's a little dinky fast

1:29.7

coffee. Was it a pour over? Hi, hi, I'm dinky fast coffee. Hi. Yeah, that's what I do.

1:37.4

That's what I do. Yeah. Yeah. I use the, I use a, yeah, yeah, what I want to call the

1:42.3

clever, a clever filter. I think it's called clever clever, right? Clever. Sure. If I keep

1:47.4

saying it repeatedly, it'll make more sense clever. Yeah. I guess you call it a pour over.

1:52.0

It seems like a very fancy term for just making coffee. I'm just making coffee. I make

1:56.1

a single coffee. It's a, what we, my lady and I, apart from sometimes when we would have

2:01.3

an interreganum with a quiesenart coffee maker, they call it a three way. Yeah. We, we,

2:06.6

we've always been doing this. We would always just call it a one hitter because we are

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