Ep. 274: "Lord Sword"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2018
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
The Problem: Three days is exactly enough time to really feel your death.
Recorded live on Tuesday January 16th for SF Sketchfest at Gateway Theatre in San Francisco.
Photo credit: Kevin Sliech.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, John. |
| 0:07.4 | Hi, Merlin. |
| 0:09.3 | How's it going? |
| 0:11.0 | Good. |
| 0:11.6 | This is so weird. |
| 0:13.2 | Did they do this? |
| 0:13.9 | This is so weird. |
| 0:15.3 | There's so many people here, and I can't get sick. |
| 0:19.1 | I cannot be sick. Don't blow your flu on get sick. I cannot be sick. |
| 0:21.7 | Don't blow your flu on Merlin. |
| 0:24.6 | I'm trying to play it off legit, |
| 0:26.7 | but I've been fucking Howard Hughes all night. |
| 0:28.7 | Everything is literally asses and literally elbows. |
| 0:32.1 | Very nice to meet you. |
| 0:33.6 | Shall we do the bump? |
| 0:34.7 | I made him hug me, |
| 0:36.5 | and I actually was so sick three days ago. You were so... I was so sick. My daughter threw up on me, as kids do. I don't know, but it's lovely when they do it. Yeah, it's so sweet. Yeah, when you're a parent... Cherish those moments. And someone had been feeding her Cheetos, so it was like a thing that was never going to come out. |
| 0:55.7 | And then 60 hours to the minute later, I felt really bad inside. But unlike a little child, I refused to throw up. |
| 1:06.5 | Because I'm a big boy. And so I fought it, just valiantly fought it, for 12 straight hours of just like misery. |
| 1:17.1 | So you were on the verge, and you knew that you could have some, did you feel like it was |
| 1:21.5 | going to be relief, or would you be so mad at yourself for giving up that it wouldn't |
| 1:24.8 | even feel good? |
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