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Roderick on the Line

Ep. 106: "Nürburgring Confirmation"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Johnroderick, Society & Culture, Thelongwinters, Philosophy, Merlinmann

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2014

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

John has started buying dictionaries.

The Problem: There’s no lucky fun.


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0:00.0

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0:10.0

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0:16.5

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0:24.0

Hello. Hello.

0:24.7

Hey, John.

0:26.2

Hi, Merlin.

0:27.4

How are you?

0:28.4

Oh, it's very early.

0:29.9

Yeah.

0:31.1

It's good, though.

0:33.1

Yeah.

0:33.9

Yeah, it's good to go early.

0:36.2

Are you moving earlier? Moving. Have you had a personal time change? Yeah, it's good to go early. Are you moving earlier?

0:38.9

Moving.

0:39.6

Have you had a personal time change?

0:41.1

Yeah, I'm moving earlier.

0:42.2

I am trending earlier.

0:44.4

Hmm.

0:45.5

I think that early is morally better.

0:49.0

Mm-hmm.

0:49.8

It's been, that's what people have been telling me my whole life.

0:53.3

People who get up early are morally superior to people that sleep late. I've resisted it. That's because we're not up early enough to defend ourselves. That's right. That's right. They're writing our biographies and we're sleeping. And then when you wake up, they hide them under the pillow. And they're like, oh, look who's up, lazy bones. It's typical of the earlys. It's just the kind of thing they do. The earlys do a lot. The earlys are running the world. Well, because there's lots of things that I think earlys tend to do that ladies wouldn't do or are we doing in a different annoying way. Like an early, they do stuff like they move things around at the house, right?

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