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Roderick on the Line

Ep. 295: "Big Mike"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Society & Culture, Johnroderick, Philosophy, Thelongwinters, Merlinmann

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2018

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Virtue Enforcement

The Problem: They don’t know how to be.


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0:00.0

Hello.

0:01.0

Hi, John.

0:02.0

Hi, John.

0:03.0

Hi, Merlin.

0:04.0

How's it going?

0:05.0

Good.

0:06.0

Good.

0:07.0

How's your jackhammer?

0:08.0

Oh, it's your jackhammer?

0:10.0

Oh, it stopped jackhammering recently.

0:12.0

Man.

0:13.0

Yeah, I had a, I had a little jackhammer this morning, but there's not that much pavement out here by my house. So it doesn't take that. It's not like somebody on a New York City street where the jackhammer's just going all day. Because they got so much pavement. Yeah, here it's mostly, you know, it's just mostly dirt. You just have to jackhammer out a little corner of something. What are they doing? They got to dig up dirt. Lord only knows. I mean, it's not

0:38.7

like the city really cares or does any maintenance on this neighborhood, so it must be something

0:43.1

really serious. Maybe they found some pirate gold. I had a donut, though. Really? What kind of

0:51.1

donut you have? Well, I had a chocolate donut. A chocolate all the way through or a frosted glazed? Mm. I don't like donuts. I like cake donuts. You like old-fashioned cake donuts. Cake donuts. It's the only kind I like. I'll be horn swoggled. I like my daughter and I both like the glazed with the frosting on top. I also like, you gotta be careful when you go to dunk a donut.

1:12.9

So I've eaten the buger on this one a few times. Uh-oh, uh-oh. Well, you say you want to glaze, chocolate glazed, and they'll give you another one that I like, which is a very cakey, all-choclet donut with a real jizzy sugar coating on it. Oh, I know that one. You ever have the Jiz donut?

1:25.9

Oh, for sure, for sure.

1:27.1

Yeah, that's a good-ass donut.

1:28.5

It's a good donut.

1:29.7

I'm trying to sure, for sure. Yeah, that's a good-ass donut.

1:28.5

It's a good donut.

1:29.7

I'm trying to do, go ahead.

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