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Episode 453: Shoulder the Brunt

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2019

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

DISCUSSED: Merlin has an email confession; Dan steps up with a shoulder; listeners have given your hosts a season of the show; praise for HBO's Watchmen; a discussion of curating media for kids; Merlin exercises Personal Privilege; everybody is different!; praise for the new MacBook Pro (and who it may or may not be good for); the beginnings of what could be an extensive series on reclaiming control of your own media; some Plex homework for both listeners and your hosts; a brief rant on the downsides and limitations of renting other people's music; Merlin is birthday-gifted with Planty II plus some awesome @pants materials.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello. Oh, hi. Good morning, Dan. How are you? Good. Good

0:04.9

morning to you. How's everything going on way up there? Good

0:08.5

morning. It's the optimistic day. Everything is great. Tuesday

0:11.8

optimism present optimism in the house optimism engaged

0:16.6

optimism at maximum levels maximum warp Mr.

0:21.5

Com. So let me see. We had I I don't know what your agenda is

0:28.8

for the show, but I did want to mention that we had a couple of

0:31.2

emails that if we ever feel like being more lazy than usual,

0:35.6

we they pretty much wrote a show for us. Did you did you I

0:39.5

don't know if you're on board with the emails. You know what I

0:42.4

did. I do not. That's right. I forgot. So maybe you haven't seen

0:45.0

but there are a couple emails. I have I have for eight years

0:51.0

very greatly enjoyed the emails that we get from listeners to

0:55.8

the program. Yeah, what I have less enjoyed and have found no

0:59.0

way to avoid with out drastic measures is the far greater

1:04.6

percentage of email from what John Roddick would call dingolings

1:09.0

who are asking to be on the show. So I had to finally filter it

1:11.9

to devil. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm not getting your messages.

1:15.9

I wish there was a better way. We'll figure something out at

1:19.0

some point, but daddy can't get no mail. Well, I will take I

1:22.8

will shoulder the brunt. You should have shoulder my brother. I

1:26.1

will shoulder the brunt of that and and and when the good emails

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