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Roderick on the Line

Ep. 127: "Fermi in a Van"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Society & Culture, Johnroderick, Philosophy, Thelongwinters, Merlinmann

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2014

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

THX DAD

The Problem: He’s a grownup skater, Alaska-style.


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Hello. Hey John.

0:28.0

Hi Merlin.

0:29.0

How's it going?

0:30.0

Pretty good. What's the matter?

0:34.0

Merleman, John, ah!

0:37.0

Oh no, things are good.

0:39.0

Things are good. You know, it's one of those, it's just one of those like how good can things be you know what I mean yeah

0:46.8

how good can they be really yeah you know there's a comet there's a comet coming

0:51.5

there's a meteor giant meteor gonna wipe us out

0:53.8

well I didn't know about this yeah how good can we feel that is that a bus feed thing

0:58.0

should I should I catch up on that tell me what if you were on Reddit you would know I you got to get off the

1:04.3

red it John I've never been on redid oh

1:07.6

can you believe that I'm follow a tumbler site that puts up pictures of cute animals from that site but that's about it

1:15.3

yeah every once in a while someone says I should do an a m a from Reddit I thought you

1:20.0

were gonna do one I thought I saw you scheduled for one of. I don't think I ever was but in any case I don't understand the interface I look at

1:26.8

Reddit and it looks it's you know it looks like an organizational chart yeah or like an outline for a for a term paper. Yeah, it's got a it's got a tree format a tree format right and you know what when I first got on the internet

1:41.5

1990 aught seven. And I would go on the news groups or rather I would go to the

1:51.5

internet. I would go to a place where people were on the internet and I would look over their shoulder while they were on the news groups and I would say

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