Ep. 111: "The Handjob-Industrial Complex"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2014
⏱️ 76 minutes
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The Problem: It’s like the City of Rome.
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| 0:30.9 | Hello? Hi John. Hi John. Hi Merlin. How's it going? Pretty good how are you going? I'm I'm impressed. I'm impressed. I'm impressed because you're a man who |
| 0:38.0 | leaves the house and a vehicle and you go places and you do things. You spend your morning and your afternoon doing things and |
| 0:44.4 | then you show up early for a podcast recording. |
| 0:47.0 | Isn't that something? |
| 0:48.6 | How do you do it? |
| 0:49.6 | Not only that, but there was a truck fire on the interstate. |
| 0:53.0 | There are a lot of trucks on the interstate at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. |
| 0:57.0 | That seems to be high truck hour. |
| 1:00.0 | But there was a dump truck that rolled over and spilled diesel fuel all over the interstate and burned itself, I mean burned itself kind of completely up. |
| 1:09.0 | Can I present a scenario where that would have never happened. |
| 1:13.0 | Hmm, yeah. |
| 1:14.0 | If it had been on a train. |
| 1:16.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:18.0 | Thank you. Although trains do sometimes crash and burn. |
| 1:21.0 | Yeah, but they crash at scale. You get all... That's right. That's right. crash and |
| 1:25.0 | it's a scale you get all that's right that's right it's like dying on Christmas it all you |
| 1:27.0 | jam it all into one thing yeah well and usually when a train crashes it also has some |
| 1:31.1 | tanks of like you know liquid sulfuric acid or something and they |
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