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Roderick on the Line

Ep. 132: "You Cannot Lie to Your Pants"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Merlinmann, Thelongwinters, Johnroderick, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2014

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

He was an itinerant tin-typer.

The Problem: Kids don’t follow.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

This episode of Roderick on the line is sponsored by Threes.

0:03.4

Threes is a tiny puzzle that grows on you.

0:05.8

You can play it forever and it'll always be in your pocket.

0:08.6

Learn more about Threes by searching your App Store for Threes,

0:11.9

or by visiting Th's game.com.

0:14.3

Hello. Hi John. Hi Merlin. How's it going? Jim Dandy.

0:26.0

John, ah, ah, that's sweet. This is going to be the upbeat episode.

0:32.0

Savior of the Universe.

0:34.0

Do-dung-dung-dung-dung-dung-dung-dung-dung-dung.

0:38.0

I am wearing my wool pants today.

0:41.0

Nice.

0:42.0

And it is nice except, you know, that first day that you put on the wool pants, you really have

0:48.9

to get used to feeling scratchy down there.

0:52.3

Yeah. It's not a blend. No, these are old and they're just wool is all get out.

1:00.7

They just took a sheep basically and and give it a zipper and took the insides out and yeah right make condoms and pants

1:09.2

Yeah, it's a yeah, it feels good. It feels good to for winter to be here and for it to be like time to get down to the knit tay gritty.

1:19.3

I wear some different pants today too just to mix it up a little bit.

1:22.0

Hmm. Different different pair of different

1:23.4

different pair of Levi's you mean or well yeah different pair of Levi's you mean or well yeah

1:27.1

different pair of Levi's 501's this is the the second ratiest pair that I own and I wear them probably once a quarter because if I see

1:35.3

somebody from my child's school on the street it leaves an impression.

1:38.8

Oh I see.

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