Ep. 387: "Don't Talk to Dongus"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Thelongwinters, Johnroderick, Merlinmann, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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The Problem: She was a Lifestyle Egyptian.

(Recorded on Monday, June 15, 2020.)

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0:00.0	Hello? Hi John.
0:07.0	Hi John.
0:08.0	Hi, Merlin.
0:10.0	How's it going?
0:12.0	Well, there's a little bit of an issue here because although you can hear me speaking into the microphone, I'm hearing you through the computer audio.
0:27.0	Oh, but I just changed it in the menu.
0:32.0	So now it's now it's good. Is that is that a way that you prefer it?
0:37.5	To do it in a menu? I mean to be able to hear like that. Oh, I like to hear you in my headphones and not just like across the room because if you say the word computer.
0:49.0	Computer.
0:50.0	Oh, it sets life your lady.
0:52.0	Yeah, the lady is going to ask us, or she's going to tell us how much rainfall.
0:56.0	Did you choose that for Star Trek reasons?
0:58.0	Amazon Basin.
1:00.0	Uh, calling her computer?
1:02.0	No, the little boy across the street,
1:04.4	Jared, is familiar with the Amazon Dingus.
1:12.4	And so he used to come into the house and say
1:17.1	Alexa play Old Town Road and I would say
1:23.0	Jared don't control our Alexa.
1:27.0	Stop saying it.
1:29.0	You're not allowed.
1:31.0	You're not authorized. and he would go oh okay sorry and then he would go you know
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