Ep. 265: "Cisesthesia"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2017
⏱️ 77 minutes
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The Problem: John was a drug addict and an unknown.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. |
| 0:07.0 | Hi, John. |
| 0:09.2 | Hi, Merlin. |
| 0:10.3 | How's it going? |
| 0:11.4 | Oh, pretty good. |
| 0:12.9 | We should pick an accent and stick to it. |
| 0:14.8 | Okay, let's just do this the whole show. |
| 0:17.0 | It's going to be Humpty Hum and Tim Gunn. |
| 0:19.7 | Make it work. |
| 0:20.6 | Hence to Mergot Troy. That's good. He's a cool, cool cat? No, who is that? Look, it's stupid. I should have been around like Cupid. I use the word that don't mean nothing like looped it. Oh, God, it's hectic. It is hectic. Isn't it hectic? Is it me? No, it's not. I feel overwhelmed. You're doing lots of things, right? Well, but it's just the hecticness more than anything. I mean, you know, I feel, yeah, I feel like I'm doing stuff, but I'm also just like, come on. I need to just not be doing something for a while. I don't, I'm not saying, like, oh, I need a vacation, but like, |
| 0:54.6 | uh, I need to just not be doing something for a while. I'm not saying, like, oh, I need a vacation. |
| 0:56.7 | But, like, if I do just the stuff that I have to do for my quote-unquote job, it's more, there's more to it than one would realize. |
| 1:08.7 | I'm not asking for pity or something, but, like, you know, it takes time to you make the shows, you do the show art. I don't expect you to. And it's a nice job. I really like it. That all, well, that all stacks up and you account for brushing hair and getting to school and finishing the poster and things like that. But then you get stuff where you got to reschedule things and you get a holiday. Oh boy. You know, Dan Benjamin hates holidays. Is that right? You never heard him |
| 1:32.7 | talk about that? No, I don't let him talk. No. That's probably good. But, you know, it's a, |
| 1:37.8 | you know, it's a good kind of hectic, I suppose. Uh, he doesn't like holidays. How do you feel about holidays? |
| 1:45.7 | You know, let's do, what's a special holiday episode? |
| 1:50.6 | Um, get you get a Travis voice for that one. |
| 1:52.6 | I, uh, I feel like my feeling, there's somehow, okay, so first of all, my feelings about a given holiday are very, very different. |
| 2:00.1 | It's almost a form of synesthesia. |
| 2:02.4 | Or, like, there's some people who can, like, smell colors or, like, when they hear a note, |
| 2:06.8 | it makes them think of a word or something like that. |
| 2:08.6 | I taste tastes. |
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