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Roderick on the Line

Ep. 113: "Big Comedy Rock Solo"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Johnroderick, Society & Culture, Thelongwinters, Philosophy, Merlinmann

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2014

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

There are apples in the pine trees.

The Problem: John’s guitar doesn’t have B♭ minor.


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0:00.0

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0:09.9

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0:15.9

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0:23.9

Hello? Hi, John. Hi, Merlin. How's it going?

0:29.8

Pretty good, although I reached up to click on the answer button on the Skype.

0:37.4

And I accidentally clicked the button that said software answer button on, um, on the Skype. Mm-hmm.

0:43.1

And I accidentally clicked the button that said software updates are available for your computer.

0:43.6

Would you like to download them now?

0:45.2

And I clicked on yes, apparently.

0:48.5

Oh, dear.

0:49.4

You don't want to do that.

0:50.1

And the thing started to like, started to work.

0:53.9

And I was like, no, no, no, no, no, I don't want that.

0:56.1

And I look, but the X button now was shaded out. I couldn't click on it. And there was no,

1:02.4

canceling wasn't an option anymore. And so something right now is working behind the scenes on my

1:07.5

computer to update my software, which I do not want.

1:11.7

Should we open a support ticket for you?

1:14.2

I think so.

1:17.0

I'm going to send a report to Apple.

1:20.3

Windows PC or Apple Macintosh?

1:24.6

I don't even remember.

1:25.9

I stopped updating back before there was a difference.

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