Episode 8: Little Velvet Hands
Back to Work
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4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2011
⏱️ 73 minutes
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This week, Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin eighty-six their restaurant jobs—emptying grease traps, handling logs of meat, and sharing what they learned by bringing mostly bad food to America's table. Dan burns velvet hands, Merlin's Mom gives the guy with the coupon a kung fu, and old people want a monkey dish of sauce before they boost all your Sweet'N Low.
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, yeah, I got a coffee, there's just a new coffee place down the street that's like |
| 0:06.2 | amazing. |
| 0:07.2 | What are they specializing, how do they brew it? |
| 0:10.4 | Care, they specialize in care, they do a per cup, you know, French press deal, which |
| 0:15.7 | you know, that's kind of a thing now, blue bottle, I think kind of kick that off here |
| 0:18.9 | in town. |
| 0:19.9 | Do she hipsters and has go there and get there like, you know, 35 minute coffee, but these |
| 0:23.9 | guys do it really well. |
| 0:24.9 | They're like coffee scientists. |
| 0:25.9 | You go in there and the guys like trying to for baskets to like make the ideal espresso. |
| 0:29.5 | Brown Owl, nobody lives in my neighborhood, but if you're anywhere near my neighborhood |
| 0:34.6 | and don't be creepy about it, it's on tariff all between 21st and 22nd, Brown Owl. |
| 0:41.3 | James and Arana, look it up, they are good. |
| 0:44.8 | And they're both, you know, fine artists, which is kind of cool. |
| 0:48.1 | How far are you from what people would think of as like the downtown San Francisco? |
| 0:52.8 | As far as you can be now, I'm the second furthest you can be and still be, nobody considers |
| 0:57.9 | where I live San Francisco. |
| 0:58.9 | You know what I mean? |
| 0:59.9 | Yeah, I know. |
| 1:00.9 | Montero is always like, you know, like I have to get my currency exchanged, I don't know if |
| 1:04.0 | I can get a connecting flight. |
| 1:05.4 | Yeah, there's a reason people hate you, like, there's a reason, not me, just other people. |
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