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Episode 94: A False Sun

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2012

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: How to be a proper list-maker

This week, Dan and Merlin discuss the pros and cons of lighting your environment properly, how we fall into bad list making habits and how to solve these issues. Also, Merlin makes some sounds for your enjoyment.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Number one, number two, number three, number four.

0:10.6

Joe Hosman has a very soft face.

0:13.8

Not like doughy, not like doughy, not like spongy, but like smooth.

0:16.6

It is smooth to the touch and I shaved today too.

0:18.6

So it was very intimate.

0:21.6

So it looks like you have from this picture, you look very,

0:24.3

this is some of the best that I've, uh, that I've ever seen you.

0:28.1

Look, thank you.

0:29.4

Thank you very clean, shaven, I have a shirt with a collar on.

0:32.9

Yeah, you do.

0:34.0

Mm hmm.

0:35.1

Yeah, I shaved, I shaved this morning and, uh, bathed and, uh, important steps.

0:41.9

Licked his ear a little bit, not a lot.

0:44.0

Just the edge.

0:47.4

I wasn't like in there.

0:48.3

I wasn't like anywhere near any ocular bones where you were, I don't know well enough.

0:54.5

I don't know.

0:55.1

No, I can't, I can't, I can't penetrate the man's ear.

0:57.7

That was very, very tall or you just average.

1:00.3

I would say he's, well, the thing is, as you know, I'm shrimpy.

1:02.9

So I'm, I'm no wrong yardstick, but, uh, he's taller than me for sure.

1:06.7

He's wearing a handsome five by five shirt when I met him.

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