Ep. 355: "The Lieutenant Colonels of Hell"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Johnroderick, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Thelongwinters, Merlinmann

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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The Problem: Here come the bird people.

(Recorded on Monday, October 7, 2019.)

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0:00.0	Hello.
0:06.6	Hi, John.
0:09.2	Hi, Marilyn.
0:10.3	How's it going?
0:11.2	Good. How are you?
0:14.3	Pretty good. Pretty good. I'm a little bit ambivalent.
0:19.0	Oh.
0:19.6	I mean, that's not bad. Ambivalent. I mean, that's in the nature of ambivalence, I think. Right. No, you sound a little bit ambivalent. Tentative. A little tentative, but, you know, a little tentativeness isn't bad either. I don't think tentativeness is bad anymore than ambivalence is bad. Oh, fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
0:39.5	Angels should not be walking around anyway.
0:42.2	Well, that's true. I wouldn't be.
0:43.8	I wouldn't be.
0:44.7	Were I an angel?
0:46.4	Well, yeah.
0:47.5	Yeah.
0:47.8	I think, you know, it's easy enough these days in this economy to over-commit to a feeling.
0:57.7	Huh. Yeah. No, I I agree I admire commitment I something I respect in people but I also I have a lot of respect see this is the
1:03.4	ambivalence I also have a lot of respect for people who are just you know ambivalent or uh uh
1:09.2	of two minds or maybe maybe six minds I don't know uh huh uh huh but i'm pretty good pretty
1:14.4	good five by five i got no complaints who'd listen you know what i'm saying right sure uh uh
1:20.0	yeah speaking of angels yeah and walking around okay uh do you think of the devil as having wings?
1:29.4	No.
1:30.6	Okay, go on.
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