Ep. 321: "The XY Problem"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
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 don't oh hi bro how's it going oh hi bro how's it going oh hey burrow we're going uh we're gonna try something uh Ooh. Coming in a little hot. Coming in a little hot. |
| 0:21.3 | I need some protein. |
| 0:22.5 | We're going to try something unusual. |
| 0:26.2 | I'm saying this to you because you're the only one listening right now. |
| 0:28.7 | We're trying something unusual. |
| 0:30.3 | I just want to let our listeners know. |
| 0:32.2 | We might have done this before. |
| 0:33.4 | It's been a long time. |
| 0:34.1 | We've been doing this for almost eight years. |
| 0:35.8 | Are you opening the kimono right now? |
| 0:37.6 | Yeah, it's wide open. |
| 0:39.2 | What? |
| 0:39.8 | Look like a butcher shop window. |
| 0:42.0 | Well, well, wow. |
| 0:43.0 | Well, what we're going to try to do is owing to the chaos of the future, and none of us really knowing what the future will hold. |
| 0:51.4 | We're trying to pre-record an evergreen episode. Yes. In which it will be |
| 0:58.1 | virtually impossible for the listener to know when it was recorded mostly. Yes. So this could be |
| 1:06.7 | 2011. This could be 2013. So we're going to confine ourselves to talking about Hitler and the |
| 1:14.0 | Beatles because it's the only, it's really all you can talk about that is truly evergreen. |
| 1:21.2 | Can you do that? Can we just, Suey Generous, just start talking about the Beatles and Hitler? |
| 1:26.1 | Not, we don't have to like work our way to it. |
| 1:28.4 | It doesn't have to come up organically. |
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