Ep. 139: "Building a Lung"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2018
⏱️ 80 minutes
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| 0:15.4 | Hello? |
| 0:20.4 | Hi John. |
| 0:22.4 | I'm Erlan. How's it going? Good. Yep. How are my packets? Oh your |
| 0:30.2 | packets are handsome so far. Good. good, I like to have my packets arrive 100% packed with no loss, no loss of any kind of the content. |
| 0:44.0 | Yeah, way back in 2014, that was one of my resolutions. |
| 0:49.0 | Really? I would keep my packets tight. |
| 0:51.0 | Sure, it's so hard because I don't know, you know, it's like, they say don't let somebody else pack your |
| 0:57.4 | parachutes. |
| 0:58.4 | That's what they say, yeah. |
| 1:00.2 | But I feel like every time I go on the internet somebody else is packing my parachute a little bit. |
| 1:04.0 | I hear that sister. You know what I'm saying? |
| 1:07.0 | You know what I'm saying? |
| 1:08.0 | You know what I'm saying? |
| 1:09.0 | And I don't like it. |
| 1:10.0 | Whenever people say things like that though, I can't help but have this thought go through my mind |
| 1:13.2 | which is what if they're way better at packing it than you are? Oh good point not you |
| 1:19.6 | you're a parachute not not all parachutes. If you had a professional parachute packer, |
| 1:25.0 | and then you yourself was just some kind of like one-time Charlie, |
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