Ep. 04: "Sears Would Call Me Husky"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2011
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
The Problems: Pixxxxxie Grrrls; punk rock day; George Lucas’s dewlap; numerous Charles Nelson Reilly issues; why John Hüsker Dïdn’t; Merlin’s chronic struggles with facial hair; Czeching out the Beetle; our complicity in a massive Rob Halford denial; hangtags for the portly man; scalloped versus fretless; when we looked like butter-top bread; incontinent mastiffs; the overdue need for a Personal Ads tribunal; challenges of the mechanical pancreas for the working musician; and why there’s nothing wrong with Merlin that couldn’t be solved by several well-structured ass-kickings.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. |
| 0:05.0 | Hi John, how are you? |
| 0:07.0 | Hi John, how are you? Hi, Merlin. Are you well? |
| 0:10.0 | Uh, I'm well. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm well. Oh you sound better. I mean less bad. But I'm not completely well. I'm 90% better. But I'm not completely well. I'm 90% better. But that 10% there's a lot of wiggle room in that 10%. |
| 0:26.0 | Yeah, it's like losing weight, it says the last 20 pounds. |
| 0:28.7 | Say that again? You never heard that when people say they're trying to lose weight or like last five pounds they say it's his last I don't know that might be one of those dumb things like |
| 0:36.8 | You always find things the last place you look I'm not sure if it makes sense but they say you can lose a bunch of weight |
| 0:41.4 | The last five pounds of the hardest for you that's the last mile those last 10% of sickness I could still turn it around and get pneumonia I could still turn this this almost |
| 0:56.5 | betterness into total catastrophic sickness. So I have to be very careful at this point that I don't go do what my instinct tells me, which is to run bareheaded in the rain in my underwear because I will get I will get pneumonia if I do that and that's what my |
| 1:17.2 | instinct is telling me. |
| 1:18.2 | Hmm. Is that is that an instinct you have a lot about running around without clothes and no hat? |
| 1:24.4 | It is and that's why I don't that's why when people say follow your gut I say shut up my gut is telling me to do incredibly stupid things. My gut always told me to |
| 1:36.8 | fall in love with lesbians. My gut tells me to go out in the rain without a hat. My gut tells me to eat all the pasta. |
| 1:46.6 | Literally, it's my gut that tells me to do that. |
| 1:49.8 | Right. I can't trust myself is what I'm saying. |
| 1:53.0 | I think your guts probably seen too many things on Cinemax where they make out the |
| 1:57.7 | lesbians and you think that is very attractive to me but then you realize that the person that's not featured |
| 2:04.4 | in the Cinemax movie consistently is you. |
| 2:07.0 | Well it's a your Cinemax reference isn't far off but in fact the lesbians I have traditionally fallen in love |
| 2:14.4 | with are the ones with short black hair and the faintest wisp of a mustache. |
| 2:21.6 | I don't I'm not interested in in like like 12 year old boy or John waters well |
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