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Roderick on the Line

Ep. 312: “Always is How”

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Thelongwinters, Johnroderick, Merlinmann, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Mr. Protest Vote.

The Problem: John hasn’t earned a chair.


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0:00.0

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Squarespace.com slash SuperTrain. Hello. Hi John. I'm John. How's it going? How am I going? Yeah. How are you going? Oh, I'm going. How are you going? Oh, I'm fine. How are you going?

0:34.3

No, all right. We got a jackhammer situation. Oh, is that right? Yeah, we got the train. We got the jackhammer. We got a lot going on here.

0:40.1

A lot going on. What are they jacking? Pavement.

0:43.0

They're out there.

0:44.0

It looks like it might be the, it's not the government.

0:46.0

I think it's the PG&E.

0:48.0

What? Oh, so they're just doing it in the sidewalk or in the street?

0:50.0

No, they're in the street, they're in the street, they're in the street, they're out there just jamming away.

0:53.0

Yeah, yeah, 10 a.m. Monday.

0:55.0

Monday.

0:58.0

So you think that they would have doors in the street or something so they wouldn't have to, they wouldn't have to break up the payment like that every time. That's a good idea like an access panel.

1:06.7

Yeah if they just had I mean what do you need to what do you need it in there? It's like a

1:10.3

closet door door and a hinge probably a way to lock it.

1:15.0

But I mean, also, you know, let a person know.

1:18.0

You know, I assume that everybody in my neighborhood is probably, if they're not doing bubble tea, they're probably podcasting.

1:23.0

Little heads up wouldn't hurt.

1:24.0

I should get a lot of information about elections on my door,

1:27.0

but nobody's telling me anything about jackhammers.

1:29.0

I got to find that out for myself.

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