Ep. 289: “Car Stars”
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2018
⏱️ 84 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello? |
| 0:05.0 | Hi, John. |
| 0:08.0 | Hi, John. I'm Merlin. How's it going? |
| 0:11.0 | Super dupe! Computers! Computers! Computers! Oh they do so much for us! |
| 0:20.0 | I really do. Are you having computer troubles this morning? I wouldn't say |
| 0:24.8 | troubles. Well. Oh nobody knows the troubles. the trouble that's seen. |
| 0:35.0 | Nobody knows but skies. I started the day watching some videos on YouTube of Jumbo jets trying to land in really severe crosswinds. |
| 0:54.0 | Oh, wow. |
| 0:56.0 | Super exciting. |
| 0:58.0 | Uh, did they mostly make it? |
| 1:00.0 | Well, no, a lot of them aborted their their landing went around. |
| 1:03.2 | Abort, abort, abort, abort. |
| 1:04.5 | That's right. |
| 1:05.2 | Go around, go around. |
| 1:06.2 | Go around. |
| 1:06.8 | You golf niner, niner. |
| 1:08.7 | They're children on board. |
| 1:10.1 | I had a terror, there was a terrible thing. |
| 1:12.2 | I don't know how I discovered it but there's a |
| 1:15.9 | there's a series of videos from aircraft carriers of a ramp strikes they call them ramp strikes what is that well that's where an airplane is coming in you know they have they have there's a whole job on an aircraft carrier just the guy that's like a pilot who is watching the landings and he's talking to the pilots and he's like pull up a little bit less okay a little bit more whoa a little bit less you know like he's he walks him right in it's like a it's a |
| 1:46.1 | landing control officer or something like that and and you and there's all these videos |
| 1:51.8 | and they're terrible videos because they're taking at night in a storm or whatever but guys like oh you're too low whoa you're too low. |
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