Ep. 26: "Go Practice the Car"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2012
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Ep. 26: “Go Practice the Car” - Roderick on the Line - Merlin Mann on Huffduffer
The Problems: John refutes Poe’s telephone; surprising contagion of the beloved vuvuzuvuzela; Roger Daltrey: District Attorney; The ’Barrow Boy’s Patrician Shrug; a balrog in the dwarf mines; comments are still steadfastly disabled; white wizard potential; longevity means finding room in one’s book; John considers removing lady embolisms as a move; how you get the Center Square; Vincent Price’s productive eyebrows; why Van Halen’s making nothing off those damned coke mirrors; John identifies Merlin’s liquids and many songs about pirates; Triumph of the Poutine; the trouble with thinking; the night John’s pillows watched over him; inflammable roach clips; a rockabilly song about dragons; A Brief History of Unnavigable Carnival Mud; initiation into the family coven; John considers some costly boots for his kit; and, our first biological interlude.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. Hey John, how are you? |
| 0:07.0 | Hi, Merlin. How's it going? |
| 0:10.0 | John Roderick no. |
| 0:15.0 | It's not a good song. |
| 0:17.0 | No, you don't like that it's a march you don't like marches? |
| 0:19.8 | You know what I did I cribbed a little bit from Janet Jackson and I think that's what you should do. |
| 0:24.3 | You should go back to the great stars of our youth and find a song. |
| 0:30.4 | Okay. |
| 0:31.4 | Make some notes. |
| 0:32.4 | But I mean, you know what, I didn't have to find it. It's like a kind of |
| 0:36.4 | of synesthesia when I hear your name and when I hear your voice. Huh, who had that? |
| 0:42.1 | Was it, um, Baudriard, Baudelaire, who had it? Somebody had that. |
| 0:46.0 | Bruce? Baudri, Baudri. Who's the guy that says, uh, this is some, hmm, it's a TV guy. |
| 0:52.6 | That's what I'm thinking of. |
| 0:54.8 | You know what I tell my daughter this. |
| 0:56.4 | You know the thing about Bruce Lee, I don't know, this is true. |
| 0:59.0 | Bruce Lee's success? |
| 1:01.3 | You know? |
| 1:02.3 | Because he's a great actor. |
| 1:03.0 | He's a terrific actor. |
| 1:04.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:05.0 | You know, the thing is, he's a very moving story. |
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