Ep. 33: "Starts to Slurry"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2012
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Ep. 33: “Starts to Slurry” - Roderick on the Line on Huffduffer
The Problems: The Conversion of the Jutes; maids of scullery, milk, and otherwise; hacks for avoiding Saturday fires; Roderick’s Law of Condescending Reverse Obsequiousness; No Claptons, No Claptons, No Claptons!; concentric naval circles around the seaman’s wheelhouse; the decline and fall of one anachronistic 11-year-old impressionist; Buck Owens, The Second Moog Enthusiast; yeah, well, The Fantastic Four already did that; John’s latest observations about windows; Supertrain to the rescue!; understanding epidemic famine from inside a moderately tight Methodist tube; an abridged retrospective of Wendy William Walter Carlos Williams Williams; dry burgers—you know, for kids; Merlin can’t even get into his whole Jean Grey Thing; the hosts’ shared dread of The Bikini Toll; things from which no good can come; important steps for qualifying your new Chapman Stickman; John shot first; “Shabbos, Wiry Shabbos”; Silicon Valley’s ironic afro aeronautics; why is this Wednesday different from all other days?; plus, Merlin repeatedly struggles to help John understand a canny but admittedly elaborate plan for interfaith human barter.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. Hey John. |
| 0:05.0 | Hey John. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Merlin. |
| 0:08.0 | How you doing? John, uh-huh. |
| 0:15.0 | I don't want to make people cringe or be reluctant because they fear the Queen. |
| 0:20.0 | Boy, you know, you know what, anybody who fears the Queen shouldn't even be listening to this |
| 0:27.2 | podcast. |
| 0:28.2 | Do you have other, do have other things like that that would be helpful to people in deciding whether this is right for them. |
| 0:34.0 | Oh, uh, some, like a litmus test or a little checklist. |
| 0:38.0 | Let's look at some quick tips, maybe a top 10, but you know, litmus test would be good too. |
| 0:42.0 | They can know if they're basic yeah right or |
| 0:44.4 | acidic or acidic or somewhere in between you know I I prefer to think of it in terms |
| 0:49.5 | of those quizzes that you get in Mademoiselle magazine that where you find out if your |
| 0:55.1 | boyfriend is cheating on you or... I think they had to change the name to Madam and it's |
| 1:01.0 | much larger now. So this is like, like, just, is a quick, you go in there, you could do this while you're doing |
| 1:07.4 | your laundry or enjoying a pedicure. |
| 1:09.5 | You go through and you find out by answering a series of questions whether your boyfriend's cheating on you. |
| 1:14.2 | Yeah, right, exactly. Like, does he act weird? Yes, he does. Does he keep having sex with |
| 1:22.0 | other ladies? |
| 1:23.0 | Oh my God, I think he's cheating on me. |
| 1:25.2 | A, definitely. |
| 1:27.2 | B, almost certainly. |
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