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Roderick on the Line

Ep. 160: "Gidgets and Gasmos"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Johnroderick, Thelongwinters, Merlinmann, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2015

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

An epistolary survivalist.

The Problem: How can a cloud be full?


This episode of Roderick on the Line is brought to you by Cards Against Humanity. They asked us not to read an ad. Enjoy the show.


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0:00.0

This episode of Roderick on the line is sponsored by cards against humanity.

0:04.3

They asked us not to read an ad, so hey, just enjoy the show.

0:07.5

Hello, Hey John. Hi Merlin. How is it going? Good how are you going? Great. That was a really really fast restart. You must have some very recent equipment there.

0:25.0

Yeah, well, I was restarting my computer and so I had to go get some gerbil chow from the grocery store across the street that stocks gerbil

0:36.6

chow to feed all the gerbils inside my now completely archaic computer device, which still looks very modern.

0:47.0

That's what's deceptive about it, right?

0:50.0

The design was so ahead of its time that it's still to me at least looks very very modern

0:56.5

I have two beloved Apple devices at my house right now that won't turn on at all

1:01.4

And they look like something from Star Trek.

1:03.2

They're so modern.

1:03.9

Oh, they're very modern.

1:05.5

My extremely modern phone

1:08.3

has been engaging me in conversation recently about how my

1:15.5

I-Cloud is almost full. Oh yeah my wife wakes up to that literally every morning.

1:23.0

And it's interesting when I think about it,

1:26.0

because of course, the, I mean, how can a cloud be full?

1:30.0

Oh, my goodness.

1:31.0

You know what I mean?

1:32.0

When I think about it?

1:33.7

A cloud can't be full. I mean it rains when it gets full. A cloud rains.

1:39.1

The clouds can get very, very big before you would describe them as full.

1:44.0

They can retain a lot of matter.

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