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Episode 89: Burlap Sack Full of Oranges

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2012

⏱️ 91 minutes

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0:00.0

Now you look like a real boy.

0:05.4

Hello. Good morning, Mr. Merlin, man. How are you today?

0:08.1

Uh, I'm very well done. How are you? He sound like maybe you have a cold.

0:12.4

No, should I? Would you like me to get one?

0:16.0

Yeah. Uh, I felt a little under the weather the other night, but it's mostly just early.

0:23.2

But uh, no, let's do the show later. Let's start doing a later. Let's talk about it.

0:28.5

All right. Go ahead. So it's, it's a little stressful, you know, to get it ready.

0:32.7

This is the fast man. Not that anybody cares.

0:34.7

The home in the show, right? This isn't one. No. No. No.

0:40.1

Now do you have a cold? Did you, you went to, uh, you went for the second time in like,

0:44.0

what, almost five years, you went somewhere. You know what? We shouldn't get into it.

0:49.8

You went to this, uh, conference. Uh, did you have a good time?

0:52.7

Yeah. I mean, it was, uh, it was a great conference up there in, uh, in Brooklyn.

0:58.5

You've been in Brooklyn, right? You always hang out there a lot.

1:01.3

I was in Brooklyn for almost a whole evening once. Yeah. I had, uh, I had barbecue there,

1:06.3

which is kind of weird. Mm-hmm. We spent a lot of time in Manhattan, instead of,

1:12.0

instead of Brooklyn, because, uh, we have sponsors. I went and visited, uh, a little Ryan,

1:17.2

finally met little Ryan in person. Some photo of you guys. It was an explosion of handsome.

1:21.6

He's so little. He's so little. Oh my god. He's so tiny. He's grown so fast. So it's hard to

1:26.6

keep him in shoes. I know. I know. His hair is getting pretty long too. Oh man. Yeah.

1:32.8

But I've, I've been told by informed parties that it, uh, it, it works well for him.

1:39.8

Yeah. Hmm. We're eventually have an intervention. I remember what, I just, I just got a haircut,

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