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Roderick on the Line

Ep. 317: "You Can't Be Drunk at Disneyland"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Thelongwinters, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Merlinmann, Johnroderick

4.8 β€’ 1.1K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 24 December 2018

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Conversational Jenga.

The Problem: John’s not making any wolf masks.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello. Hi John.

0:07.0

Hi John.

0:08.0

Hi, Merlin. How's it going?

0:11.0

Oh.

0:12.0

Oh. Come on. Oh, it's going great, man. Oh, it's going great, man. Oh, it's going great.

0:18.0

Merry Christmas. Hey, it is, it is. It is a Merry Christmas.

0:24.0

How are you on the whole telling people happy holidays?

0:29.0

Controversy.

0:30.0

Do you teach the controversy?

0:32.0

Oh, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, but, but, but, uh, I don't know.

0:36.0

I have to be honest.

0:37.0

I just don't want to offend anybody.

0:39.0

And the truth is, like you can offend somebody either way.

0:42.0

That's true.

0:43.0

Well, I mean, if you're saying that to somebody

0:44.5

to be like a nice person, I think you have to be a little bit

0:48.3

contextual about it.

0:50.5

Context is important.

0:52.0

You look at your context clues, clues is what I'm saying.

0:54.0

Yeah, context clues.

0:55.0

Well, I don't know how else to do it.

0:57.0

I mean, I feel like there's no really good answer right now.

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