Mark Manson, author of "F*** Yes Or No"

We Met At Acme

Dear Media, Lindsey Metselaar

Education, Relationships, Society & Culture, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 5 May 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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In this episode of We Met At Acme, I sit down with one of my favorite writers Mark Manson. Mark has a new book coming out called "Everything Is Fucked." We discuss when Mark was a dating coach, what inspired him to write Fuck Yes Or No, how long you can fake having game, defining the relationship the right way, how he got his wife, and so much more! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a deer media production.
0:03.2	Hey guys, welcome back to We Met It Acme.
0:05.4	This is a really special episode for me because we have someone who I'm a huge fan of and have loved their writing for a while.
0:13.1	Author Mark Manson.
0:15.2	Hey, hey, hey, Mark, how's it going?
0:17.6	It's good.
0:18.2	It's good to be here.
0:18.9	So let's talk about this last name for a second.
0:21.0	Are you related to any sketchy Manson?
0:25.6	You know, it's funny when I was growing up.
0:28.3	Yeah.
0:28.7	People used to ask people in my family that they used to ask me that when I was a kid.
0:32.3	I'd go to like summer camp and they'd ask me that and I learned at a pretty young age that if you didn't answer them,
0:38.3	it would make them get really awkward.
0:40.1	So I'd be like eight years old and a camp counselor would be like, are you related to Charles Manson?
0:45.6	And I'd be like, I'm not allowed to talk about that.
0:49.3	And they would freak out.
0:51.1	But no, I'm not related to him.
0:53.1	Yeah, I guess it's a common last name.
0:54.8	It is.
0:55.3	And actually, I ended up reading a biography about him.
0:58.2	It's not his biological father.
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