Ep. 221: "Riding the Ham"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Self-help, Merlinmann, Thelongwinters, Johnroderick, Roderick, Winters, Long, The, Philosophy, Society & Culture, John, Merlin, Mann

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🗓️ 24 October 2016

⏱️ 96 minutes

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The Problem: John houseproofed his baby.

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0:15.0	Hello. Hi John. Hi John. Hi, Merlin. How's it going? Well, I'm proud to be an American. Or at least I know I'm free.
0:20.0	I like that song.
0:22.0	And I'm proud to live in the land I love and that gave its life for me.
0:26.0	Was that? I guess I don't have all the lyrics.
0:29.0	That's a pretty good song.
0:30.0	Yeah, it had it came under fire a lot.
0:33.6	Well, I'm trying to, you know, get away from the, what, the genetic criticism or whatever,
0:37.6	how it got used, but I like the, uh, I like the tune.
0:40.8	The tone.
0:41.6	The tune. The tone?
0:43.0	The tone?
0:44.0	I feel like...
0:46.0	His baseball players.
0:48.0	I got a lot of crazy names today.
0:49.0	I feel like it came under fire just like...
0:52.0	Just like the man who composed it.
0:54.4	Well all I'm trying to say is like the I mean there's the famous line from the
0:59.2	song but there's a reason we sing that line and it's because it's really catchy. It's not what you expect in a chorus.
1:06.3	It's hooky. It will and what it does is I'm trying to I mean don't have the song in front of me. I don't have a guitar but I feel like it starts
1:14.8	on the one chord.
1:17.1	Let me ask you if you did have a guitar right now would you be capable of playing it?
1:21.6	I have it but it needs to be restrong.
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