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Roderick on the Line

Ep. 154: "West Coast Noncommittal"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Johnroderick, Thelongwinters, Merlinmann, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2015

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

The Listening Tour.

The Problem: Marlon Brando was waiting in the bushes.

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This episode of Roderick on the Line is brought to you by Cards Against Humanity. Thanks to Paul and Storm for greeting John this month.


Transcript

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0:00.0

This month they ask Paul and Storm to help me say hi to John.

0:08.2

I'm not a doctor, but you know I'm feeling fine

0:25.0

Turns out all I need is you and Roderick on the line. Good morning John, I'm Erlyn.

0:27.0

Hello.

0:35.0

Hello, how are you today?

0:37.0

Ha ha ha.

0:39.0

That's great.

0:40.0

Oh, that's just swell.

0:41.0

Bob's your uncle.

0:43.0

I've got my raccoon hat on and I'm ready to broadcast.

0:48.0

As a side note, can we do that for 90 minutes?

0:50.0

Here's the problem.

0:52.0

First, you've got to keep moving and you've got to get out of the way. That's number one and number two.

0:55.0

You can put that in your pipe and smoke it. Take it to the bank.

0:58.0

Feeling frisky, Johnny. I got nothing I'm done.

1:02.0

The amazing thing is you know that you know that quality when you

1:06.1

look at really old photographs of people like you look at you'll find a photograph of

1:10.3

a whole class from a school you look or like you know but they're adults like a technical school or something you look at their pictures and their faces their

1:20.1

their fizzy in noies just look old.

1:23.4

Oh yeah.

1:24.4

They don't look like modern people.

1:26.6

And then when you listen to recordings of the way people talked in old movies and radio, they don't talk like normal people either, they talk like old

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