Ep. 118: "The Articulated Hose King"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2014
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
The Problem: John rejects the Vindication Lottery.
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| 0:24.5 | Hello. |
| 0:25.4 | Hi, John. |
| 0:26.4 | Hi, Merlin. |
| 0:27.4 | How's it going? |
| 0:28.6 | It's going pretty good. |
| 0:29.9 | How are you? |
| 0:30.5 | I've missed you. |
| 0:32.9 | I know. |
| 0:33.5 | You're back. |
| 0:34.8 | I'm almost back. |
| 0:37.4 | Hmm. Hmm. Can you expand on that a little? Well, You're back. I'm almost back. |
| 0:38.0 | Hmm. Hmm. |
| 0:40.6 | Can you expand on that a little? |
| 0:44.2 | Well, I don't, I don't feel 100% back. |
| 0:55.1 | I'm leaving again in a couple of days to do some more cross-country airplane flights, which is my number one job. |
| 1:00.5 | Cross-country airplane flights. So I'm here, but I feel like a dead man walking a little bit. |
| 1:02.9 | I got to get on an airplane. I got to go do some more dumb shit. |
| 1:08.3 | It's like you're on parole from a plane. Right. I'm on. That's right. I got a three-day pass from my airplane. And now I can just, I can walk around, I can breathe the normal air, I can see the flowers blooming. |
| 1:15.4 | Every minute feels like a lifetime. |
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