Ep. 14: "Big City Apology"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2011
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Roderick on the Line - Ep. 14: “Big City Apology” on Huffduffer
The Problems: all things golden, antiqued, chocolatey, and considered; public radio murmuring; tales of fraud and malfeasance in Adam Ant wallet licensing; thwarted love in a 6-story wooden bookcase; tea taxonomies; The Dustin Hoffman Scenario; hats off to the Confident Delivery Guy; the scotty that nails 3-pointers; Blackie chases Blackie; still working on dialing down the ping-pong talk; getting one’s hands around The Ladder of Enlightenment; John’s Aerostar residency; taking Clydesdales to the Prom; long con involving a sailboat; shtupping the honey bear; pony keg of Axe; JFK’s struggle with Hodgman’s Disease; Busch v. Anheuser feud; the box in Geneva holding a Glock and 7 passports; disputes in international band nomenclature; the old money of Canadia; Bob’s Dad was such an asshole; the thing about the Village People; a thread on the Buckaroos (not the pipe guys); the jailer’s keychain surrogacy; anxious Bonobo regret; going Dutch—again; Lapsang Souchong is NOT the lady from Myanmar (formerly known as Burma); the inescapable dander of the compulsive onanist; some followup from Merlin’s Other Program; why John can’t go to Tonga; the thing about deer at a watering hole; and, that one time a steely-eyed yeti with twigs in its fur demanded satisfaction.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. Hi John, how are you? I'm Merlin. |
| 0:05.0 | John, how are you? |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Merlin. |
| 0:09.0 | John Roderick. How's your day? |
| 0:15.0 | Merlin man. |
| 0:17.0 | Oh man I'm my nose my I've got like a perfect storm of nose right now. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm trying to sniff I hear myself sniffing because of the allergies and now on top of it |
| 0:25.0 | I sound kind of like a drive time DJ don't I? |
| 0:28.0 | Oh listen to you, yeah, you're all Sophia Loreen. |
| 0:31.0 | Yeah, it's about eight minutes before the hour of 7. |
| 0:34.0 | Hmm. |
| 0:35.0 | Here on Q 107. |
| 0:37.0 | Oh boy, you know, I turned up my headphones and now I'm racing over here to turn them down. I understand completely. |
| 0:45.7 | It's going to go do some deep cuts. Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:49.4 | Uriah heap. Boy, this I like I like this this. See, he's one of those bands like, um, ding, ding, ding, |
| 0:56.7 | dung, ding, dung, dung, dung, dung, dung, dung, gosh, gosh, gosh, is it like the difference in antique and |
| 1:03.8 | No, there's a there's a much greater difference between antique and antique? What about golden? Isn't that like saying |
| 1:09.5 | chocolatey? So it's a weasel word they call it in Dutch or is that right a |
| 1:14.2 | a vesal word here's a vesal no don't make fun you see you're already ping pong like 30 seconds in well |
| 1:20.5 | man I sound I don't is it just me or do I sound really good? |
| 1:24.1 | You do sound good. |
| 1:25.4 | Damn. |
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