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Roderick on the Line

Ep. 291: “Arles”

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Merlinmann, Thelongwinters, Johnroderick, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2018

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Zone 3

The Problem: That’s what you tell a snork.


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0:00.0

Hello.

0:06.0

Hi, John.

0:07.7

Hi, Merlin.

0:08.7

How's it going?

0:10.3

Good. How are you going?

0:12.6

Do you wish sometimes that I had never taken you to the computer store to buy a computer?

0:17.9

Do you ever think maybe that's where it all went wrong?

0:20.6

I wonder, I wonder, there are so many musicians and people my age from my walks of life

0:27.0

who did not really make the transition to computers very gracefully.

0:32.8

And I wonder if you hadn't held my hand through all of that.

0:36.8

I'm so sorry.

0:38.0

So sorry I held your hand.

0:40.0

Whether I would be sitting at my Mac Classic 2, like pecking out Facebook posts and like,

0:48.2

you know, you know what the country needs.

0:51.6

More checks mix.

0:55.2

And not, you know, not, I wouldn't have turned into this sion of the internet.

1:00.8

Oh, you're a sion.

1:02.4

Of the internet.

1:03.5

Sion of the internet.

1:05.0

Yeah.

1:05.6

That's what you, that's what you did to me.

1:07.5

You made me out of, out of bits and parts that you found.

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