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Roderick on the Line

Ep. 385: "Home Corn"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Johnroderick, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Thelongwinters, Merlinmann

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Jack Twitter

The Problem: John has a ravine.

(Recorded on Monday, June 1, 2020.)


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0:00.0

Hello?

0:06.3

Hi, John.

0:08.2

Hi, Merlin.

0:09.3

How's it going?

0:10.4

I feel great.

0:11.5

Rabbit rabbit.

0:12.1

No, see, don't laugh.

0:14.2

Don't, okay, now we got to reference it.

0:17.6

Listen, in the first, if I am elected, when I am elected, in the first 100 days of my administration, I will personally smite.

0:25.2

I will smite Comcast.

0:27.1

I will smite Skype.

0:29.7

Many things will be dealt with.

0:33.8

Let's put it that way.

0:35.0

Let me ask you this.

0:36.0

This is not, this is, yes, you there.

0:41.1

How, just talking about purely architecturally, how well has the, has the internet achieved what you

0:51.3

hoped it would do? Ooh, I wasn't prepared for this. Let me take you to Merlin 2010. Hey, Bo. Hey, Merlin. Hello. Yeah. We know each other already. Hello. I'm an English android. I am. Let's go. We'll be destroyed for sure. Sent to the spice minds of Kessa, we will.

1:12.4

Let's take it all the way back.

1:13.7

Although I don't know if all the way back, back to when you designed the Long

1:17.7

Winter's website.

1:18.8

Let's take it just as far back as when the decade turned the corner.

1:23.3

And I said, what do you think it's going to be like in 2020?

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