Archive Holiday Edition - "The Story of Lola"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2012
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Ep. 44: “The Story of Lola” - Roderick on the Line - Merlin Mann on Huffduffer
With John on tour and the holiday season literally upon us (literally), the next few weeks of our Roderick on the Line program will, regrettably, be compelled to hew to an unusually-erratic release schedule.
But, in deference to the Spirit of Christmas, we’d like to share with you a Very Special Episode™ from the copious bowels of the RotL archives.
Like It’s a Wonderful Life, A Christmas Story, and that one episode of Happy Days where Fonzie may have to spend Christmas alone in his hovel of a garage, eating a can of beans from his hot plate, we hope that you will consider building a warm and nostalgic new holiday tradition for your family with an annual listening of one of our favorite and best-loved episodes: “The Story of Lola.”
In which John drinks too much coffee, shares his breadth of knowledge regarding our nation’s strip clubs, explains the role of raccoons in producing bottled water, and—yes—recounts his august background dressing up as Santa Claus and spanking dirty little elves in a bar.
Happy Holidays to you and yours, and thank you for letting John help you so much each week.
[Photo Credit: Three Imaginary Girls]
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. Hi, John. |
| 0:07.0 | Hi John. |
| 0:08.0 | Oh, I'm Berlin. |
| 0:10.0 | Oh, God, it's early. Are you recording from a different room? Does it sound different? |
| 0:17.8 | Well, excepting the echo I would expect that it sounded like you might be passing |
| 0:25.4 | passing something through your bowels. Oh no no I was thinking that you were hearing |
| 0:30.5 | my head reverb. No, it's the same, that's the same great taste in the same great room. |
| 0:40.0 | My leather, my red leather chair. |
| 0:43.0 | I have a red leather swivel chair that rocks and is on wheels. |
| 0:51.2 | And I'm sitting at a table that I found on the street |
| 0:57.6 | You know what you're nothing if not eclectic |
| 1:01.3 | eclectic now now when you, I don't, this is probably a little, a little personal, but I understand that sometimes, sometimes you do |
| 1:08.4 | record and you're altogether. |
| 1:10.0 | That's right, that's right, in fact that would be the case right now. |
| 1:12.0 | Oh dear, dear, dear. That's right. In fact, that would be the case right now. |
| 1:12.8 | Oh dear, dear, dear. |
| 1:15.1 | It's a warm day and I am not even bothering with a sheet or a towel. |
| 1:19.8 | That's what I was going to ask. |
| 1:20.9 | Do you get stuck to the seat? |
| 1:23.0 | No, no, there's nothing that my natural form likes more than a little bit of |
| 1:31.0 | leather, a little bit of warm, a bit of warm leather. |
| 1:33.2 | I'll be so glad when falls here. |
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