Ep. 01: "Keep Moving and Get Out of the Way"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2011
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Punctuality, Freud, reasons, John’s brutal introversion, R.E.M.’s sense of humours, listening with toolboxes, the explicit honesty of volcano science, and ultimately rethinking humanity’s Latifahesque, fleece-and-beards struggle with the two a priori laws.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. |
| 0:07.0 | Hi, how are you? |
| 0:09.0 | Hello, Merlin. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm late again. |
| 0:12.0 | It's all right. I'm usually late to everything, so this is my just desserts. |
| 0:18.0 | Are you? You don't seem like a late person? |
| 0:22.0 | It's not that I'm late, it's that I don't get there on time. |
| 0:27.0 | Okay. And that's because I don't leave the house with enough time to get where I'm going. |
| 0:34.6 | And I don't think that's the same as being late. |
| 0:36.8 | I think that's, I think that is a, that is a question that has more to do with like how you perceive space and time. |
| 0:48.0 | So it's more of a science problem. |
| 0:50.0 | Yes. |
| 0:51.0 | Yeah, I mean the thing I was in order for you to be late you would have to have some interest in other people |
| 0:57.3 | I think |
| 0:58.3 | What would that be like? I don't know. I mean there's books probably Wikipedia but like if you |
| 1:04.8 | were late you would be kind of conscious of the fact that there are other people that |
| 1:08.0 | had things they need to do and I don't think you and I suffer from that. I think it's |
| 1:11.3 | something that holds a lot of people back. |
| 1:13.0 | Constantly thinking like how will this affect other people? |
| 1:16.0 | Right, who cares is my first thought. |
| 1:19.0 | I mean I assume that they think that I wouldn't know. |
| 1:21.0 | Yeah, right. Well other people right they're the problem. Oh |
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