Ep. 168: "The Room of Stories"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2015
⏱️ 76 minutes
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The Problem: There was no ashtray to make.
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| 0:27.0 | Hello. |
| 1:00.5 | Hi John. Hi John. Hi Merlin. How's it going? Good. There was a storm up here in Washington and I left my office windows open a crack and the storm opened them up all the way and filled the room with storm. Oh no they breached your perimeter. |
| 1:03.4 | Yeah, so everything is covered with a fine layer of ash and amazingly, like the ceiling is suddenly peeling. |
| 1:16.2 | I don't know how it got up to the ceiling. |
| 1:18.8 | You sure this isn't a dream. |
| 1:20.6 | And the curtains were all skew and it was very exciting to because I saw when I pulled up I saw that the windows were |
| 1:29.2 | all the way open and I was like who's been in my office opening the windows and then I came in and I was like oh the storm was in my office |
| 1:37.1 | It's a non-rain storm was a windstorm? Yeah we get those in the northwest quite a bit. |
| 1:43.0 | When the seasons change, we get a big windstorm. |
| 1:46.0 | And they are accompanied by rain often, and this one was, |
| 1:51.0 | but my sense is that it's mostly wind that got in here and and |
| 1:57.8 | did its dirty business oh my gosh and that's ash from all the fires, huh? Who knows where the where the thin coating of greasy ash came from, but yeah, so... |
| 2:09.0 | It's like living in a bong. |
| 2:10.0 | It's like so like living in a bong. So like living in a bong your office has resin dude. Yeah except there's no like there's no water bug |
| 2:20.4 | Where's the carb? Where is the car where is the car where is the car? Where is the car? |
| 2:23.0 | Where is the car, John? |
| 2:25.0 | I told you the story right about the friend of mine from Florida that woke up and took a big hit off his bong and then realized that a water bug had been hanging out in his bong and was now in his mouth. |
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