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Roderick on the Line

Ep. 104: "Talismans of a Dead Age"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Johnroderick, Society & Culture, Thelongwinters, Philosophy, Merlinmann

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2014

⏱️ 68 minutes

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0:00.0

Hello. Hi John. Hi John. Hi John. Hi Merlin. How's it going? Good how are you? I'm very well.

0:15.0

It's early. Yeah. It's this still, honestly, is this still early for you?

0:18.0

Yeah. Um, well, I mean, yeah.

0:23.0

Yeah.

0:24.0

The thing is I've set all the clocks in my house, uh, 10 minutes fast.

0:29.0

Ha, like Vince Lombardi.

0:31.0

And so I, uh, so I always am running around like, oh, God, I'm always I'm running around like oh God I'm late so late oh oh no and then then I get you know I get to where I'm going like I sat down here thinking I was 10 minutes late for your for your call and then I looked up I was like oh I'm right on time. Oh it worked. Wow my plan worked. Do you want? My self fooling. Do you forget that they're set forward? Oh yeah. I read a

0:58.9

biography of... Flocks don't lie. It's a clock that's why it's a clock. It's called a clock. I have enlisted them in my service.

1:09.2

It's a life hack. I am making those clocks, I'm sure that those clocks when they go to clock heaven

1:15.0

have to answer to clock St. Peter for all the years that they were 10 minutes

1:21.8

fast for all the years that they were 10 minutes past.

1:23.0

And even still they had to wait because they got their 10 minutes early.

1:28.0

That sounds like a bad Irish proverb.

1:31.0

May the clocks be 10 minutes early if your date with Peter the clock, saint.

1:36.6

You're saying Vince Lombardi did this?

1:38.6

I'm trying to remember.

1:39.6

I've always been a fan of biography.

1:41.3

So when I was a little kid, I would read biographies. I remember reading a biography of Vince Lumpart. I don't know if this is true. I think it's him. Supposedly he said his watch forward some end number of minutes like like 10 minutes. And I heard that, and however the actual facts in the matter are, I started saying all of our clocks

1:59.0

forward five minutes because I thought this is brilliant.

2:02.3

I'll never be late again because I'll as it is you

2:04.5

know even today I'm still late for everything all the time but but the

2:09.5

you've answered the question the question is it seems like you would you would see my problem is I would remember that they're five minutes

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