Ep. 23: "Flange of the Angel Curve"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2012
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary

Ep. 23: “Flange of the Angel Curve” - Roderick on the Line - Merlin Mann on Huffduffer
The Problems: John really feels his capillaries, Göring designs a flag, and Merlin cops to (generally) Grievous Daughterly Harm.
Also: how warm milk and a patient pencil can tease the scolex of a freeloading, Carter-administration parasite from the back of your Magic Hammer Pants.
One tip? Stockpile crudités.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. Hey John, how are you? I'm Erlen. How's it going? It's going pretty good. Yeah. My mouth's a little dry. What's that? Well, you know, I quit drinking coffee and without coffee in the morning it's nothing else seems good. So I don't eat breakfast, I don't have juice, I just kind of sit and... |
| 0:28.0 | I would know... |
| 0:31.0 | First of all, I gotta say that... I don't know if you're looking for a |
| 0:33.7 | little extra dough on the side but you being sad and saying that line in a |
| 0:38.2 | commercial could be like the best thing that ever happened at the coffee industry |
| 0:47.0 | without coffee nothing in life seems good. Without coffee's delicious lubricating mouth of moisteners, John Roderick doesn't know what to do |
| 0:54.2 | with himself in the morning. My mouth is dry and my taste buds aren't thrilled |
| 0:58.3 | like they normally are. You need coffee. |
| 1:10.0 | No, I have to tell you, like, there's things, I think the hardest part for me with any kind of habit and I have many, many bad habits. I've been adding a couple of week. And you take a skateboarding again? |
| 1:14.0 | It's a terrible habit. |
| 1:15.0 | I can't keep my cigar lit. |
| 1:17.0 | Sucks. |
| 1:18.0 | I'm doing a 720. |
| 1:21.0 | They call it the 720. |
| 1:22.0 | Yeah, they do call it the 7 yeah they do call it the 720 I got nailed the 720 with |
| 1:25.8 | I think Nicaragua in my mouth you know the 720 and the cigar goes out I |
| 1:30.3 | I literally I just spun twice while I blew a guy from Central America |
| 1:34.4 | Big Nicaraguan the big ringage 52 I don't smoke I don't smoke here's the |
| 1:40.4 | thing there's either doing stuff around the house or? |
| 1:43.2 | Manuel, no! |
| 1:47.0 | No! |
| 1:48.0 | No, Opera La Puerto Rico! |
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