Ep. 11: "Everybody Knew What Mr. Finnell Did"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2011
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Roderick on the Line, Ep. 11: “Everybody Knew What Mr. Finnell Did” on Huffduffer
The Problems: the status of Napoleon’s hat; historically significant panties on the auction block; major issues in corporal punishment; Liza’s mostly lifelike Naugahyde partner; recovering our Oprah memories; John’s investigative broom closet journalism; the IMAX technology that was wasted on the Gunther Gebel Williams clan; conspiracy theories around Pee-wee’s Sarasota jam-up; why Seattle’s goin’ hungry in the lemon yellow sun; Mr. Finnell’s copy is goldenrod; Donovan’s probably fake smile; tackling our usual authenticity issues; some “e”-zy diaeresis häcks; why John’s just not a fan; the salient différence; Merlin’s glass-lined taxi driver problems; how the sunshine bores the daylights out of the one Rolling Stones lick Merlin knows; knowing how or whether to marry the other one from Wham! (U.K.); an opium-dulled death by a thousand mimeographs; the varieties of childhood paddles; in Soviet Alaska, Teamsters bust you; knowing when to save those pedagogically-stained Dolphin shorts; the seasonal difficulties of adjudicating clowns; some sensitive cultural subtleties of ping-pong; and the complex reasons why John can’t stop playing solitaire in traffic.
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Roderick on the Line Ep. 11 Show Notes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. |
| 0:07.0 | Hi John, how are you? |
| 0:08.0 | Hi John, how are you? Hi, Merlin. Are you well? |
| 0:11.0 | I am well. |
| 0:12.0 | You sound terrific. Did you make coffee or something wow thank you |
| 0:16.0 | for saying that no I I had a kind of a tumultuous morning but it all worked out |
| 0:21.7 | hmm I I had an orthodontist to us morning but it all worked out. Hmm. |
| 0:23.0 | I had an orthodontist appointment that I had already rescheduled two different times, one of which |
| 0:31.2 | time I arrived at the orthodontist so late that they said they couldn't see me and they had to reschedule. |
| 0:38.0 | And then I had to reschedule it again and this morning, it's an appointment at 10 o'clock in the morning and this morning I set my alarm at nine I woke up at nine and I lay in bed playing |
| 0:51.2 | solitaire on my phone until 9.50. |
| 0:55.0 | And so then I looked at myself and I was like, |
| 1:00.0 | I didn't actually look at myself, but I said to myself, |
| 1:02.0 | are you, are, what is the matter with you and I jumped out of bed at 9.50 and I ran downstairs and I got in the car |
| 1:11.6 | and I'm speeding across town, you know, it takes it takes 30 minutes to get to the orthodontas. |
| 1:17.0 | I'm weaving in and out of traffic banging on the steering wheel, just yelling at myself like like what is the matter with you and I called |
| 1:25.9 | the orthodontist I was like can you please I'm sorry I'm gonna be late I'm |
| 1:28.8 | be 30 minutes late can you please see me and they and they were like I don't know and so I'm driving |
| 1:37.4 | across town and I'm like I'm on the verge of putting my hand through the |
| 1:42.1 | through the windshield I'm so mad. |
| 1:45.0 | And I did this to myself for no reason at all. |
| 1:50.0 | Just like dread of going to the orthodontist or something I sat and played |
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