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Episode 525: The Pollution of Modernity

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

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2021

⏱️ 91 minutes

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DISCUSSED: fake southern accents lead to some movie talk; Merlin apologizes; Dan does not want to spend a night in The Box; please utilize the restroom that conforms to the color of your gender; a guardsman pitches Merlin's wife; Merlin goes off on a surprisingly long tangent on kung fu movies--especially the work of The Great Gordon Liu; Dan needs a syllabus to get Cash even more into Godzilla movies; there are some words on DC movies; your hosts begin a dive into the Kindle ecosystem that turns into a dive into ""The Kindle Ecosystem""; Friend-of-the-Show, Moisés, provides some beneficial real-time follow-up regarding the king of monsters; Merlin needs some movie backstory but also wants wants to make it extremely clear that he is very attracted to an English actress.

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0:00.0

Hello.

0:02.0

Oh, hello, Marilyn. How are you doing today?

0:04.5

I'm doing very well, Dan. How are you?

0:07.0

Wow.

0:08.5

Here we go.

0:10.1

I never know quite which personas we're going to inhabit.

0:16.4

That sort of thing.

0:17.6

The foghorn, lechorn, lawyer person.

0:19.6

This foghorn lechorn meets a Bob Bowden-Curk character known as Senator Howe Tanker

0:27.2

Bill. And this is a very deliberative, so-

0:32.6

Senator from the very close to the guy that ran the Cool Hand Luke chain gang.

0:42.6

Oh, you got to do that. You're going to do a Strudler Martin. You got to do a higher voice

0:46.3

for that.

0:47.3

Is that was he putting on heirs for that or is that his real voice?

0:51.1

Pretty fancy.

0:52.1

I mean, off the dome, all I know is he's one famous line. I haven't practiced. I haven't

0:57.8

even warmed up very early.

1:00.2

What we have here is a failure to commune.

1:03.5

That sounds like a lot of my other impressions, doesn't it?

1:06.3

Which we've got here is-

1:07.3

Sounds like he is.

1:08.3

John's here accused of-

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