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Episode 469: Israel, Jr.

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2020

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

DISCUSSED: “CATS — Now and Forever!”; BokBok.wtf; on civic responsibility; Dan browses worms, and Merlin finds him a spider; Dan wants some keyboard advice, and Merlin just needs a ride; some thoughts on engaging versus escaping right now; praise for Danny Elfman and Oingo Boingo; suggestions for leveraging the wonder of libraries today; Dan is working on a big Minecraft project, also some listener letters.

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0:00.0

Hello.

0:02.0

Hello, Merlin.

0:03.5

Good morning, Dan.

0:04.7

How are you?

0:05.7

Good.

0:06.2

How are you doing?

0:07.2

Well, I'm very well.

0:08.7

Good morning.

0:09.9

So I see you've watched, uh, you've watched Cats,

0:12.7

and that's, that's what things have come to now

0:15.2

in San Francisco.

0:16.3

Oh, I don't know.

0:17.7

I don't know.

0:20.2

It's, uh, boy, that's a hell of a thing.

0:22.7

The movie or?

0:24.4

Just, uh, it's, it's, uh, everybody that's talked about it

0:29.1

since it came out and said kind of a similar thing, mostly,

0:31.5

which is like, this is not like anything you've ever seen.

0:35.5

It's, so, so poorly conceived and executed that it's, it's,

0:42.5

it's, your mind is just overwhelmed with every horny frame.

0:47.5

It's just, it's so weird and upsetting.

0:51.1

Oh, yeah.

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