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Roderick on the Line

Ep. 297: "Chicken in the House"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Merlinmann, Thelongwinters, Johnroderick, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2018

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Pink Floyd Large Book

The Problem: No Plae.


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0:00.0

Hi John. I'm Merlin. How's it going?

0:07.0

Hi John. Hi, Merlin. How's it going?

0:12.0

Good. Is it? It's early. Oh is it? You don't mind if I just sleep through the first 45 minutes? No, I'll do all the talking. Okay great. Well let's see it's Monday July

0:25.1

16th and everything's going great. I I woke up around three.

0:35.0

No, what do you do?

0:37.0

Couldn't really get back to sleep.

0:39.0

That's exactly the same story with me.

0:41.0

Yeah, well, let's compare notes. What do you what? So I get up and I'm

0:45.8

realizing going hunk hunk hunk hunk because that's my left nostril. Oh sometimes I can't breathe. I should probably get a CPAP but I just I just no offense but I just I don't know I just seem very undignified.

0:58.0

Yes it is. I mean you know I feel like once you're on the CPAP you're always on the CPAP.

1:04.1

It's there's got to be a better way. I was well I found myself thinking I wonder if I could go on

1:10.4

YouTube we watched a lot of YouTube videos about life hacks yeah

1:13.5

things like you can make your own bug catcher with a plunger and stuff like that I

1:17.2

wonder if I could make a homemade seepap for myself with some straws and a bellows

1:21.4

and maybe have a hamster on a wheel.

1:25.0

It seems to me that like a home tracheotomy would be better.

1:32.0

Well, you know, you can make your own, you can make your own, you can make your own, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, you can make

1:38.7

your own dish soap at home, you can, uh, I learned how to make, uh, you can make your own dish soap at home I learned

1:44.0

curious about this this plunging flycatcher. Well there's a funny just as a side note there is a

1:50.0

funny sometimes funny YouTube channel that's ostensibly a life

1:54.1

hacks channel it's a bunch of dumb shit you can make we really should probably just go

1:57.5

buy it in a store my daughter loves these kinds of videos every morning when I

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