Ep. 268: "A Principled Ohioan"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2017
⏱️ 82 minutes
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The Problem: Adriano Goldschmied.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. Hi, John. Hi John. |
| 0:06.0 | Hi, John. |
| 0:08.0 | Hi, John. I'm Merlin. How's it going? |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Merlin. going. |
| 0:13.0 | John, John, I'm so behind. |
| 0:17.0 | Oh, I, uh, I, uh, about three days ago I got a pair of pants at a thrift store and they were called Adriano or Adriano Goldshmead. |
| 0:36.2 | And I had never heard the name. |
| 0:39.8 | Adriano Goldshmeed. |
| 0:41.9 | And I thought, I thought, that's a pretty cool name and you know and the pants were like |
| 0:49.0 | three dollars or something so I was like yeah yeah, you know, that's cool. |
| 0:53.2 | I'll get them. |
| 0:54.0 | Looks kind of upscale. |
| 0:55.3 | Well, so I did that thing where I was like, |
| 0:57.1 | I got to figure out what Adriano Goldschmead is. |
| 1:00.6 | And normally, before I buy something like like that I look it up right there. |
| 1:05.0 | Uh-oh, that's smart. |
| 1:07.0 | And so... |
| 1:08.0 | Because you don't want to rep the wrong thing. |
| 1:11.0 | No, you don't want to get something that looks fancy that's fake fancy and you don't want |
| 1:14.9 | to get something that is like, oh I'm just going to wear these around the house. |
| 1:18.9 | It turns out. |
| 1:19.9 | When you name your company and your product I think there's very few even customs or laws |
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