Ep. 321: "The XY Problem"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Johnroderick, Thelongwinters, Merlinmann, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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The Problem: John needs a window for his door.

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0:00.0	Bro, hi John.
0:07.0	hi John.
0:08.0	Oh hi Burl?
0:10.0	How is going?
0:11.0	Oh, hi, well, how is it going?
0:12.0	Oh, that was a little hot.
0:16.0	Oh, coming in a little hot.
0:19.0	Coming in a little hot.
0:21.0	I think some protein.
0:22.0	We're going gonna try something unusual I'm saying
0:26.6	to you because you're the only one listening right now we're trying something
0:29.8	unusual I don't I just want to let our listeners know we might have done done this before. It's been a long time. We've been doing this for almost eight years.
0:35.6	Are you opening the kimono right now? Yeah, it's wide open.
0:38.8	What? Put your shop window. Well, well, well, well, well. Well, what we're going to try to do is owing to the
0:47.0	chaos of the future and none of us really knowing what the future will hold. We're trying
0:52.2	to pre-record an evergreen episode in which it will be virtually
0:58.7	impossible for the listener to know when it was recorded mostly.
1:04.8	Yes.
1:06.0	So this could be 2011.
1:08.1	This could be 2013.
1:11.0	So we're going to confine ourselves to talking about Hitler and the Beatles because it's the only
1:16.1	It's really all you can talk about that is truly
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