Ep. 37: "The CEO of Magic"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2012
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Ep. 37: “The CEO of Magic” - Roderick on the Line - Merlin Mann on Huffduffer
The Problems: Judgy tureens of Snapple®; John touches every LARP-er; bell tones snap to grid; O. Henry’s recursive taxi talk; Merlin’s awkward dental bragging; Grant makes his initial bones with a pig; thanks for the add; scaling the Cynicism Fence; Såra deliberately provokes The Colonel; stressful tooth fats; Bentham’s box; grooming a Brony; Idaho’s beard crackdown; it’s still Donnas all the way down; landing face-first in a scrum of leaves; using a word that don’t mean nothin’, like “looptid”; plus, John settles on his new Comic-Con persona.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. Hi, John. |
| 0:07.2 | Hi, Merlin. |
| 0:08.3 | How are you? |
| 0:09.6 | I'm well. How are you? |
| 0:10.6 | I'm doing quite well. |
| 0:12.3 | You seem a little bit, you seem a little bit tense. |
| 0:15.9 | What makes you say that? |
| 0:17.2 | Well, I don't know. There's something in the way that you're pursing your lips, sir. |
| 0:27.9 | You seem tight, tight-li lipped can i be honest with you you have a mouthful of peanut butter no you just ate a peanut butter rabbit i just ate oh hang on i discovered it well you have to read |
| 0:34.2 | the you have to read the box i just just ate. Hold on. Hold on. |
| 0:38.8 | Yeah, it's like a gustatory mad lips. |
| 0:42.2 | I just, I have a new convenience food that I like. |
| 0:46.2 | Oh, no. |
| 0:47.2 | Well, I was rushing to get back because, you know, I look forward to our show. |
| 0:50.3 | I just, I think it was the, oh, it was the dry coppa. |
| 0:55.8 | There's this thing you can get. |
| 1:00.4 | There's this dingus, plastic dingus full of sliced meats that you can get at the lucky. |
| 1:07.3 | At the lucky, which is a drugstore? No, no, it's formerly Albertsons. Oh, okay. All right, supermarket. Yeah, yeah. I have to tell you, John, well, first to finish the thread, |
| 1:11.6 | I was sucking a long white piece of fat out of my teeth because it was frustrating me, and I hadn't |
| 1:16.7 | thought to do that before I started calling you on the internet. So hang on a second. Which, |
| 1:21.0 | which imitates the sound of a person who's a little tense. The lips are, the lips are stiff. |
| 1:27.7 | I feel so much better now. |
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