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Episode 626: Chekhov's Lightsaber

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

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Your hosts catch up on some great media, and Merlin expounds on the magic of Channels. Also, Merlin logrolls a recent podcast episode and re-extolls the power of dictation.


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0:00.0

Oh, hello, Homer. Hey, big dog. Hmm. What's that? I feel like we talked about this. Yeah.

0:08.9

I, I, um, I forget what it's because it's a premonocta. Whatever it's called, I want the thing

0:13.9

where I get to pre-approved nicknames for me. Okay. I mean, that's fair in this valid word,

0:18.0

deltier. Given you want to vent with me, you got, you got Poppy. You, which you spelled B-A-P-I.

0:22.8

Yeah. Which I think might be some, I don't even know what culture you're appropriating,

0:26.3

but it's gross. Yeah. You call me Poppy or often you call me big P-A-P-I, big puppy.

0:32.4

And then you call me big dog. Hey, big dog. I'm like two inches taller than you. I know. It's

0:38.0

not bragging. God. Oh, was that, was that a, uh, weird flex? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know.

0:47.1

Nicknames, uh, you know, it's, uh, you know, you don't get to pick your cause of death and you

0:52.8

don't get to pick your nickname. You know, George Costanza tried. He wanted to be T-bone.

0:56.5

T-bone was the thing he was. Yeah. You know, they called him instead, do you remember?

1:00.7

Um, no. Coco. Coco. Because remember, remember, Mr, um, the guy, the guy at that, uh,

1:08.9

that incompetent company at play now was a, was a play now and it wasn't play now. It was at the,

1:13.4

um, oh, it was Kruger. It was the, the, uh, where they smooth statues that the company. Uh-huh.

1:19.2

Remember, and he, he sees George arguing with the guy about who gets to be T-bone. He sees him

1:23.3

gesticulating. He says, he looks like Coco, like Gorilla, you know, oh, that's right. And then

1:27.8

later on that, I think in that same episode, putty goes, Coco, I like that Gorilla. Let's not

1:33.7

I watch the Seinfeld, where he has the eight ball jacket. Are you starting the point? Yes.

1:37.9

Start from the beginning and you're working through them. Of what? Seinfeld. No, no, it was, um,

1:44.9

the kind of TV that's mainly kind of functional television. Oh, yeah.

1:49.5

Title, which, which is where I go through and I, I go through. There's a wonderful app and

1:54.5

wonderful service. I, I love this. Are you aware of something called channels?

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