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Episode 504: Double Wrong

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2020

⏱️ 87 minutes

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DISCUSSED: lot of projects going on!; praise for Nicki Minaj; some recent TV shows that are important to your hosts; Merlin is a little obsessed with a new Mac productivity app; interrogating problems with deliveries and porch pirates; vehicle theft can be very confusing; and, finally, some insight nobody asked for into Merlin's ambitious new hardware project.

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0:00.0

Hello.

0:01.6

Hello, Maryland. How are you?

0:04.0

Good morning, Dan. I'm fine. How are you?

0:06.2

I'm all right. How's everything going?

0:08.0

Good. A lot of projects. God, I like going on projects.

0:11.0

What's up? What's up? What are you doing? Where are you working on?

0:13.0

I'm not very prepared for today, but I know I just got a lot going on.

0:16.0

I've got a lot of irons in the fire.

0:17.0

You know what I'm saying?

0:18.0

Do you have irons?

0:19.0

Yeah, of course. Sure.

0:21.0

Too many.

0:22.0

No, not going on.

0:24.0

You know, it keeps the demon dogs at bay.

0:27.0

Doesn't it?

0:28.0

Having projects.

0:29.0

I hope so. Jesus.

0:31.0

Woof.

0:32.0

Yeah.

0:33.0

Now how are you really? Are you well?

0:35.0

I mean, good.

0:36.0

It's good. It's good. It's a weird world.

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