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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The Problem: John rejects the Vindication Lottery.
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| 0:18.0 | starts with your website. Hello. Hi John. Hi John. Hi Merlin. How's it going? It's going pretty good. How are you? |
| 0:30.4 | Oh I missed you. I know. You're back I'm almost back. Mm-hmm can can expand on that a little? I'm almost back. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. Can can you expand on that a little? Well, I don't I don't feel a hundred percent back I'm leaving again |
| 0:47.1 | in a in a couple of days to do some more cross-country airplane flights, which is my number one job. |
| 0:56.4 | Cross-country airplane flight. |
| 0:57.5 | So I'm here, but I feel like a dead man walking a little bit. |
| 1:00.6 | I got to get on an airplane, I got to go do some more dumb shit it's like you're |
| 1:03.8 | on parole from a plane right I'm on a that's right I got a I got a three day pass from my |
| 1:08.6 | airplane and now I can just I can walk around I can breathe the normal air I can see the flowers |
| 1:14.8 | blooming every minute feels like a lifetime. |
| 1:17.4 | Oh it's almost it's almost it's worse than just being on the plane. |
| 1:20.8 | I should have just stayed on the plane. You know what it is? |
| 1:23.0 | That's the greatest trick the devil ever pulled |
| 1:24.8 | was not having your flight's contiguous. |
| 1:27.2 | My goodness. |
| 1:28.3 | I thought, you know, the thing is, before I had a child, |
| 1:30.8 | I would have just stayed back on the East Coast for the last week and I would have just |
| 1:35.0 | gone to cafes and I would have I would have gone to other cafes I don't know what. I would have eaten a lot of roast beef |
| 1:44.0 | sandwiches is what I would have done. You would have time to do all those things that you |
| 1:46.4 | just don't have time to do now. You could start and maintain some new |
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