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Episode 602: Apple Juice Flood

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

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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0:00.0

Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. To a mouse by Robert Burns. Oh, new phone.

0:11.0

New phone. This is me, your home inspector. I've come to inspect your home. But how is

0:19.5

your flooded flooding situation? Oh, you know, thank you for asking. I know I know I

0:26.0

must be in the news because my mom contacted me. Dear God, what kind of ceremony would you

0:31.6

want? Oh, my God. Um, no, we're fine. Oh, my mom, I know she doesn't listen to my family.

0:38.6

Already knows I would like to be torn apart by wild dogs while a competent junior high

0:43.6

band plays car parts by the long winners. There you go. That's my death plan. My mom had

0:48.6

me come over to her apartment the other day to show me the new box that she purchased.

0:54.4

Oh, it's one of these. I've got a brand new box. It's one of these boxes that's like a large

1:03.0

square file box that is black and has locks on it, combo locks on it. Okay. Oh, is it

1:10.6

like a safe type thing? I mean, you could get through this.

1:13.9

The opposite reasons you might not want to say. Yeah, I mean, you could use a paperclip

1:17.0

to break into this. But yes, a lawyer would have a heck of a time with him. He would love

1:21.2

to. I'm sure he's done this, but it has one of those telescoping telescopic handles on

1:27.5

it. Like you would get on a, on a, on a wheelie suitcase. Yeah. And the idea is that she

1:33.0

can wheel it around if she needs to. But she says, when I come over, she said, I want to

1:36.5

show you something. I said, all right, we walk into the other room and she says this.

1:39.4

I want to show you this. I said, oh, what's that? She says, well, this is where all of my

1:42.7

papers are. So that when I'm dead, you'll know where everything is. It's all going to be

1:46.6

in here in one place. Oh, my God. Good. So when I'm dead, you can just, you just open

1:51.4

this up. Mm-hmm. Okay, mom. Thanks. Thanks. I know. I hate that conversation. It's like,

1:59.0

there's certain kinds of, I'm for a variety of reasons. I hate that conversation. For

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