Ep. 400: "Abberdabber"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2020
⏱️ 80 minutes
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The Problem: John still wants to live on the space station.
(Recorded on Monday, October 12, 2020.)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello? |
| 0:06.7 | Hi, John. |
| 0:08.6 | Hi, Merlin. |
| 0:09.6 | How's it going? |
| 0:11.5 | Super, super, super. |
| 0:14.7 | How about you? |
| 0:15.8 | I was up late. |
| 0:17.0 | I was up late. |
| 0:17.5 | Oh, what were you doing? |
| 0:18.8 | Were you feeding your Komoto dragon? |
| 0:23.0 | What was it? Oh, what were you doing? Were you feeding your, Comodo Dragon? What was it? |
| 0:23.7 | Oh, I was watching something. |
| 0:25.2 | I went down a, well, not quite John Roderick-esque, but John Roderick adjacent |
| 0:29.1 | rabbit hole, which is watching, like, some kind of, like, it's a series on BBC, and |
| 0:36.5 | it's like, you know, the year, the history of Top and it's like you know the year the history of top |
| 0:39.7 | of the pops for this year the history of top of the pops for that year sure sure so it's not just |
| 0:44.6 | the highlight reel it's it's narrated by the wonderful sue perkins um and uh and they it's funny |
| 0:51.3 | because like there it's a lot like oh gosh our show sure was dorky wasn'ty, wasn't it? But there was also these things. And I don't know, really patted out. But that's my jam. What were some of the years that you went down? Well, because it's a good question. It popped up, you know, like things do in your echoes. And so I think the first one I watched was probably 19, started to watch 1981. |
| 1:13.1 | And then I was like, huh, but there's more of these. |
| 1:15.1 | So where did I watch? |
| 1:16.1 | Oh, God, I watched a lot. |
| 1:18.3 | Like most of the 70s and a little bit of the 80s. |
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