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1 hr 45 minutes -- A Scruffy Thinking Double Feature!

On this Episode of Scruffy Thinking, our guests are: Stu Maschwitz and Merlin Mann. We discuss living in San Francisco, Star Wars, finding and doing what you love, trusting your grandmother's advice, being unemployed after having lunch with Stu and a lot more.

Note to language nerds: the plural of wildebeest does not require an additional s at the end. Wildebai is also acceptable.

Alternate Show Titles

• Doing what you love
• Never Trust the N
• Stepping on Jaba's Tail
• Dominate your Density
• CGI Rocks & R2D2
• Dicking around on the Internet
• Masterbate and play video games
• Scar Tissue
• Respect to the Grandma
• Making fun of that conference
• The Pied Piper of Unemployment
• Coffee is for Closers

This Episode

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Kanen Flowers

Kanen Flowers is the creator of That Post Show and of Scruffy Thinking. He also writes a blog. Kanen is currently trying to raise finishing funds for his own feature film, JAKE FORGOTTEN. There are less than 20 days left to donate. Help a fellow filmmaker by donating a few dollars. The money goes toward final editing and submitting the film into festivals for 2012. There's even a trailer online. Go to jakeforgotten.com for more information or to make a donation.

Stu Maschwitz

Stu is a filmmaker and accidental technologist. He runs a blog at ProLost.com. He wrote the DV Rebel's Guide. Stu is also the Creative Director for Red Giant Software's Magic Bullet product suite.

Merlin Mann

Better known as @hotdogsladies, Merlin is the creator of Inbox Zero -- which doesn't mean what you think, trust me on this -- the co-host of Back To Work with Dan Benjamin and part of the ensemble comedy troupe, You Look Nice Today which was once featured on Quotidian Public Radio.

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Music

Music: Industrial Revolution by Kevin MacLeod, Licensed under Creative Commons "Attribution 3.0"

Show Notes

We talk about Star Wars (a lot) and Detention - the film. We discuss my grandma and doing what you love. I briefly mention Permanent Midnight -- the book and the movie.

I go to this conference called TED and spoke briefly with Richard Branson.

Stu is called "the pied piper of unemployment."

We talk about skating and The Bones Brigade and how I destroyed my knees as a kid.

We also have a long, fairly insane after show.

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