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Roderick on the Line

Ep. 329: "Useful Hippie"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Thelongwinters, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Merlinmann, Johnroderick

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

I never had a home where I didn't need to hide.

The Problem: You don’t always get the good guy.


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0:00.0

Hello.

0:05.8

Hi, John.

0:06.8

Hi, Marilyn.

0:09.5

How's it going?

0:10.5

So good.

0:12.7

Yeah, I just had to fix the internet.

0:17.8

Oh, you did that all by yourself, huh?

0:20.6

Yeah, well, you know, I don't know if you knew this, but

0:22.7

the internet's broken. The internet is broken. Yeah. Not broken enough, if you ask me. Oh, see,

0:31.8

you're one of those Bay Area disruptors. I have a slide deck right here. I'd like to show you.

0:38.4

Are you going to disrupt the Internet?

0:41.5

We're going to change the way people think about being sad.

0:46.7

What I realized about the way the Internet is broken is it's broken all the way down.

0:50.9

Oh.

0:51.9

It's just broken all the way down. Say more about that. Yeah, well, you know, I was just, so what happened, what had happened was, there were some movers in here. Did you know they were going to be there? Yeah. Okay. I don't know. I mean, you know, figure there's time. You just want some company. You call it some movers.

1:11.8

There's this.

1:12.7

So yesterday was a, was one of those days where I called a couple of different service people.

1:19.1

I've had those days.

1:20.1

Those are rough days.

1:21.1

Some of them came and some didn't.

1:24.3

But the guys that are very consistent, there's this family of dudes from the Marshall Islands who have over the years been like just really great, like call up.

1:35.1

Anytime you need like four guys, four really big guys to come and just do whatever you, you know, like take apart an airplane or, yeah, or, you know, like, deal with a,

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