Ep. 03: "The Viet Cong Can Smell the Soap"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2011
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
The problems: the perfect storm behind John’s Egyptian cold; Deweys vs. LOCs; wishing you were the fruity English guy with the briefcase; declining standards at the DMV of countries; when science systematically moistens our cellos; how Merlin started loving BNs; whether John might be a 60-year-old sleeper cell; and how Rem Koolhaas is ruining literally everything.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. Hi John, how are you? I'm well Merlin. How are you? I'm Merlin. How are you? |
| 0:10.8 | Oh, you're sick, right? I'm sick and I'm having a peanut butter |
| 0:16.1 | sandwich so that that makes it sound like I'm sicker than I am. Oh, man. I know. Well, you know when I get sick it's never a small matter. I'm not I don't |
| 0:27.8 | get sick for two days. I get sick for for 20 days and it's a it's like it's like it's like it's like |
| 0:37.9 | it's like it's like marching my people out of Egypt I have to go through all this stuff it doesn't |
| 0:42.2 | matter if it doesn't matter if everybody else got the same cold and they're all over it by the weekend. |
| 0:47.6 | I have to go through this long March across the seas have to part the plagues have to come it's it's frustrating. |
| 0:58.2 | You get sick hard. I do I get sick hard I you know, it's part of being extreme. It's part of non no |
| 1:07.4 | compromise lifestyle that I've adopted since I was a young man. No, no fear. |
| 1:14.0 | This is no fear based lifestyle program. |
| 1:17.0 | Hurley. |
| 1:18.0 | Of totally burly, like Shrouthing, you know got Hurley you got Touli Toulay how do you say that well you get one of those on your car right to |
| 1:29.3 | Tolle is that isn't that where you put a bird on it? |
| 1:33.4 | Oh, I guess I'm thinking of free Frito-Lay. |
| 1:35.9 | I'm thinking about like, when you get that thing, you know, it's like the carabiners, |
| 1:40.1 | right, when you got one of those things on your car. |
| 1:42.1 | I don't know what you put in, some kind of board it's a movement related board. |
| 1:45.8 | Oh, you know where I guess you like you like board related movement so much and you go somewhere and deliberately buy a big black box and you put on top isn't that too late too late that's the kind of like oh I see what you're saying it's a board carrying |
| 2:01.2 | it's a board carrying box on your car. Do you have any stickers on your |
| 2:05.0 | you still the same van or as you get something different? The van blew up I'm afraid to say |
| 2:08.8 | and I didn't have any stickers on it but when I was a when I was a teenager I definitely I had a Chrysler Imperial a 74 |
| 2:19.1 | Chrysler Imperial when I was a kid and also known as a pussy magnet. Oh boy we called it the boat because we |
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