Ep. 114: "The Gentleman's B Party"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2014
⏱️ 82 minutes
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The Problem: We’re all compressed into the same cattle chute.
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| 0:21.0 | Hello Hello. Hi John. Hi John. Hi, I'm Merlin. How's it going? Pretty good. |
| 0:30.4 | Good. Good. Yeah, it's pretty early. It's a you know I was up in the I was up in the high desert for a few days |
| 0:55.8 | And I came back down here to the low swamps coastal swamps and last night I woke up and I woke myself up sneezing in the middle of the night and I sneezed so hard I pulled a muscle in my chest. |
| 0:58.8 | Welcome to the 40s. |
| 1:06.6 | You know for the past week my nose has been as dry as the Sonora Desert. And now I'm... |
| 1:07.6 | There's a reason we don't work on crab boats. So, so other than that I feel amazing. |
| 1:15.0 | Yeah, I think I got more allergies as I've gotten older. |
| 1:19.0 | I got more sensitivity to those kinds of things. |
| 1:21.0 | And like I used to have a friend who had really bad allergies and |
| 1:25.5 | she would always bemoan when it was like a nice day because of the high pressure and it would |
| 1:30.1 | wreak havoc and I would think that's insane. You're obviously a crazy person. |
| 1:33.6 | There's such things being allergic to grass and high pressure systems. What's wrong with you? |
| 1:37.8 | And now as soon as the weather gets nice I wake up in the morning and I pull |
| 1:41.2 | muscles. Yeah, yeah, yeah, pull the muscle in my chest and muscle I'm not even sure I remembered I had. |
| 1:48.0 | I'm not sure how sneezing could have pulled it, but you know. |
| 1:52.0 | John I think there are many small muscles in the body that we don't think about. |
| 1:55.2 | I think I first learned about this roller skating you know in like when I was a kid and |
| 2:00.0 | you go and you roller skate when you don't normally roller skate and you discover |
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