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Episode 93: 67 Points of Articulation

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2012

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: Florida, Education, and Peaking

This week, Dan and Merlin continue their purging personal odyssey through the state of Florida. Isolation, education, and a parting admonition not to throw your cap in the air.

Also, for the comic nerds, Merlin recommends checking out the exciting new stuff happening with "Marvel NOW!"

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0:00.0

This stuff is really gross. It's really, um, it's like the opposite of, uh, tops gum.

0:06.4

What is that? Is that all? Well, I think I've got one of those, uh, uh, small

0:11.6

bash artisanal gums, you know, it's in like a box. It looks like it's very expensive.

0:16.6

Yeah, yeah. But you had a mint and that made me envious. Wait, I've got, um, pretty good,

0:21.2

pretty good mints in here, actually. Kind of mints you got. These are, uh, what are these

0:26.2

things? Pyraments, pyramids, they're called pyramid pyramids. Hmm, they come in a tin.

0:33.1

They come in like an outtoid style tin, pyramids, peppermint, with the beneficial herbs of parsley,

0:42.0

clorella and chamomile and real mint oil. The clorella is not cholera, not to be confused

0:47.3

with cholera. The cholera is a made up, hang on. They're by meltsers, which is not to be confused

0:52.1

with feltures. Oh, God, that was slimy gum. I used to give feltures when I was a kid.

0:58.4

That's that same in blackjack gum. That is cloves. You're at the clove gum. The cloves,

1:03.2

they put in it. I have, no, I have not had that. Hmm, I have not had that. What was it,

1:09.4

Charleston? Choose what was your, what was your chew? You liked? Oh, oh, yeah, yeah, um,

1:13.9

golden bird. Well, golden bird. Golden bird. Golden bag. Choose. Flavin.

1:19.9

I, you know, it's one of those things though. You see somebody's like yawning.

1:22.9

You see somebody enjoying a mint or having some gum and it kind of makes you want some.

1:26.0

Hmm, I think. No, it really does. I think it's human nature. I think whatever you see

1:29.2

someone else doing, you want to do it. Yes. Absolutely. Even if you just know that someone has

1:34.0

done it like this, you think you better go and try and get it yourself. I think people are like that

1:38.5

with cars. You see somebody with a car, you want a car. Anyway, it's like, yeah, you remember the

1:43.9

tops, did you get the tops and I always felt obligated to chew the gum. You know, I wanted the

1:49.6

cards, right? And so I felt like I couldn't just throw the gum away, but it was like, I don't know,

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