Ep. 376: "Wrong Kind of Vacation"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2020
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
The Problem: John’s quiet life involved danger.
(Recorded on Monday, March 30, 2020.)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hi John. I'm Erlen. How's it going? |
| 0:07.0 | Hi John. |
| 0:10.0 | Hi, Merlin. How's it going? |
| 0:13.2 | Gimme, Gimme, Gimme. Hi Merlin how's it going? Give me give me a man after midnight |
| 0:18.6 | Can't go. Sorry about Gremlin's what is that? |
| 0:29.6 | You know more than I do. How's how's day 97 of your quarantine? Five by five doing fine. Oh good good about you who's early for one but I've been |
| 0:38.2 | sleeping a lot I haven't been I think my body's readjusting and gone into like summer vacation mode |
| 0:47.4 | We're actually fall asleep around 10 and I wake up around 7. |
| 0:52.0 | Wow, I take a lot of drugs. That's nice. That's nice. |
| 0:54.8 | A sleepy drug. Well, you know, all kinds of drugs. |
| 0:57.6 | Sleeps, you know, some where, yeah. That helps a lot. |
| 0:59.7 | Sleepy time. Sleepy time, tea. That's for amateur. Wakey time. Sleepy time, tea, that's for amateur. |
| 1:03.0 | Wakey time. |
| 1:05.0 | Oh, what are you doing with yourself right now? |
| 1:09.0 | Not right at the second, you got some coffee and you're recording your phony award winning |
| 1:13.4 | podcast sure what do you what do you do with yourself what are you |
| 1:18.0 | occupying yourself? Well you know as, as a bipolar person, even one who is currently medicated. |
| 1:28.2 | You have the best dependent clause? |
| 1:29.9 | I, you know, I have typically engaged in how would you describe it risky behavior over the |
| 1:41.8 | course of my lifetime and a lot of that risky behavior is I've |
| 1:47.0 | learned as a way of kind of dealing with self-medicating but self-care? Not really. It's a way of... |
| 2:01.1 | Self-under-Mise. Yeah,, it's a way of like sort of manifesting an attempt at control over what |
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