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Roderick on the Line

Ep. 114: "The Gentleman's B Party"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Johnroderick, Society & Culture, Thelongwinters, Philosophy, Merlinmann

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2014

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

His Dad's a little hard to talk to sometimes.

The Problem: We’re all compressed into the same cattle chute.


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0:00.0

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0:09.7

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0:17.0

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0:24.3

Hello? A Better Web starts with your website. Hello.

0:25.1

Hi, John.

0:26.7

Hi, Merlin.

0:27.7

How's it going?

0:29.8

Pretty good.

0:31.4

Good morning.

0:32.2

Pretty good.

0:33.2

Yeah, it's pretty early.

0:34.9

It's, uh, you know, I was up in the, I was up in the high desert for a few days.

0:40.1

And I came back down here to the low swamps, coastal swamps.

0:46.6

And last night, I woke up, I woke myself up sneezing in the middle of the night.

0:53.2

And I sneezed so hard, I pulled a muscle in my chest.

0:57.3

Welcome to the 40s.

1:00.7

You know, for the past week, my nose has been as dry as the Sonora Desert.

1:06.6

And now I'm...

1:07.2

There's a reason we don't work on crab boats.

1:12.2

So, other than that, I feel amazing.

1:15.4

Yeah.

1:16.2

I think I got more allergies as I've gotten older.

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