Ep. 08: "The Reptilian Behind the Long Pig Mask"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2011
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Ep. 08: “The Reptilian Behind the Long Pig Mask” - Roderick on the Line - Merlin Mann on Huffduffer
The Problems: bad advice from cartoon cats; bad advice from guidance counselors; getting high in an urchin’s proto-hole; the curious ubiquity of Romanian adhesive; the hollandaise tulip hysteria; Alexandria’s perfect bibliographical storm; John’s dance with a Moorish stirrup-wrangler; disarming goats in a Moroccan abattoir; the puckish naming quirks of Erik the Red; a substantive misunderstanding about ephedrine; remembering a wondrous and well-hung city; making connections by choosing the right colored yarn; Einar’s feelings on lobster; the refreshing nature of citrus huffing; why Al DiMeola can’t be in John’s band of Kims; some historical tattoos of “Northern Utah”; John’s offer to help in a yak vest; and considering the erotics, edifice, and relative economics of the “$50 Lunchtime Handjob.”
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Roderick on the Line Ep. 08 Show Notes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. Hi John, how are you? |
| 0:05.0 | Hi John, how are you? |
| 0:08.0 | Hi, Merlin, man. |
| 0:12.0 | Mm-Mm-Mm-, six minutes, six minutes, six minutes, |
| 0:19.0 | six minutes John Rock here. |
| 0:21.0 | I got, I missed your voice. Oh, God, I got nothing. I got I missed your voice. Oh God. I missed yours too and I kind of make a note here I got to do more homework. I don't I don't prepare I don't prepare I miss you too |
| 0:29.3 | I doubt that you don't prepare. Hmm. I just opened a whole new thing, index cards, |
| 0:34.3 | and I haven't written anything down for today. |
| 0:36.7 | Somebody asked me, does he really use index cards? |
| 0:40.3 | And I said, does he really use index cards? |
| 0:45.2 | He really does. |
| 0:46.3 | Does Stephen Hawking really need to talk like that? |
| 0:50.6 | Is that just to get laid? Oh, that wall in your office, which is just 10,000 index cards all taped to the wall with |
| 1:00.0 | posted notes and other, you know know on a whiteboard some bits of string |
| 1:05.8 | that represents relationships yeah the pencil the pencil is very distracting |
| 1:11.8 | well the thing is you see on, you see it blowing through a park and you can't, you have to chase it. |
| 1:18.1 | You have to have it? |
| 1:19.1 | You ever see that American Beauty movie? |
| 1:21.0 | Remember that? |
| 1:22.4 | I did see it. I resisted seeing it and then and then |
| 1:26.1 | had to cave because it was all anybody was talking about at the time and having seen |
| 1:31.4 | it I realized I was right. |
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