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Roderick on the Line

Ep. 158: "My Citadel Is Irrelevant"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Thelongwinters, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Merlinmann, Johnroderick

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2015

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

A baby in every pot.

The Problem: John wanted to put an extra petal on the flower.

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0:00.0

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0:04.6

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0:06.7

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0:09.9

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0:17.0

Hello.

0:22.0

Hi John.

0:23.0

Hi, Berlin.

0:24.0

Hi Berlin.

0:25.0

How's it going?

0:27.0

Good, although I just looked down and noticed that I have a schmutz on my pants.

0:31.0

Oh, no way.

0:32.0

Yeah, I got all the way down here sat down feeling good

0:35.2

feeling strong and then schmuts on the pants. Ah cry me Pete what no you know you know you

0:40.5

so you're at your you're at your office studio HQ now you should probably

0:46.0

get this happens to lots of like rich famous guys you should get a rack of clothes that you can

0:51.4

have around you know maybe I don't know if you have a closet there, but I'm thinking you need to start having a couple shirts a day and maybe some smist-free pants at the office.

0:58.0

I do, you know, I don't have a closet, but I do have clothes here left over from the time period when I imagined that I would start

1:07.4

a like a thriving eBay company where the the thing that the eBay company sold was my old clothes.

1:20.6

So I have a bunch of stuff I have I'm looking right now at I think a tangerine colored linen sport coat and a pair of

1:30.3

Heavy wool hunting pants that it would have to be 20 below zero and you would have to be spending a night outside to wear.

1:39.0

That's what that's what my eye if oh, there's a corduroy vest.

1:44.0

So, so I could dress myself. I could wear a John Roderick for City Council

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