Ep. 275: "I Want an Adult"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2018
⏱️ 97 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi John. |
| 0:06.0 | Hi, Hi, Merlin. |
| 0:07.0 | How's it going? |
| 0:08.0 | Good, how are you? |
| 0:10.0 | Yeah, I'm very well. |
| 0:11.0 | Mm, that's good. |
| 0:12.0 | So early. I just got a phone call from the local public |
| 0:17.2 | radio station and they wanted to know if I would come on a panel today to talk about whether or not Amazon.com's new bubbles that they built in Seattle are going to be an icon like the space needle. You might need to bring me up to speed here. I am not |
| 0:37.0 | totally up to date on the what are you the Emerald City what do you call jet city? |
| 0:41.6 | Well we were the jet city that was a very cool name. |
| 0:45.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:46.0 | And I think an organic name jet city. |
| 0:49.0 | Jet City. |
| 0:50.0 | What we got a fight? |
| 0:51.0 | Yeah, we made the jets here. |
| 0:52.0 | Yep, yep, yep, yep. And then once you're a jet, you're always a jet. |
| 0:55.1 | Is Emerald City, is that, is that, uh, does that Oregon? No, Emerald City is something, it's a nickname that came about as the result of a like one of those |
| 1:07.4 | Let's take suggestions from the audience type of things where they're like hey hey, what should we call our city? |
| 1:14.0 | And people I think we're like, we already have a name, Jet City. |
| 1:18.5 | And they were, oh, let's call it Emerald City. |
| 1:22.2 | And it's like who said that you know hey used in the |
| 1:26.0 | back stand up who why did you say that they're like I don't work for a |
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