Ep. 30: "Cement Gravy Boat of Suffering"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2012
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Ep. 30: “Cement Gravy Boat of Suffering” - Roderick on the Line - Merlin Mann on Huffduffer
The Problems: gripping at sand in Noordwijk; handcuffs on the rear-view mirror; dancing for children in a public square; how to stock up for John; trying to outsmart ghosts; learning why we stopped sleeping outside; how much for that dream girl in the window?; and the night John finally realized what The Light Dome was doing.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. Hi John. I'm |
| 0:05.0 | Hi John. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Merlin. How's it going? |
| 0:10.0 | Berlin, ma'am. |
| 0:12.0 | You want to stick on the last one? You want to stick? I don't know. It's up to you. It's your call. That's your side. That's your side. That's your side. Would you mad if I did it again? Go ahead. You get sick of it, you tell me, you're ready. |
| 0:24.0 | John! |
| 0:25.0 | Ah! |
| 0:27.0 | See, I think it's working if you like it. |
| 0:30.0 | You didn't grumble. |
| 0:31.0 | You've grumbled at a lot of them. You didn't like Mercedes. |
| 0:34.0 | I don't know. I really like your performance of that one. You know why? It's invested. I have |
| 0:38.9 | owned it. I penetrated that performance. When you invest yourself in something, you really do go all the way. |
| 0:46.0 | That's when trouble starts. It's the investment that hurts. |
| 0:50.0 | When you invested yourself in baking bacon |
| 0:53.0 | Thank you that changed everybody's life. |
| 0:56.0 | You know I'm like a I'm like a lady when you come to our house. |
| 1:00.0 | I really he just made my sound I am I'm like a lady I mean my wife's like a lady all the time where she wants you to be comfortable I don't know why she cares so much about you being comfortable but we go shopping for you |
| 1:12.0 | We bought you I told you what my |
| 1:14.2 | daughter said. The day before you arrived for your last visit here. It's been long |
| 1:18.4 | enough we can talk about this. We went to the Lucky, formerly Albertsons, and we filled a grocery cart with food in anticipation. |
| 1:28.1 | Now it's not that you're always gonna eat or drink everything we get, but we have learned. |
| 1:33.0 | It pays to prepare. |
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