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Roderick on the Line

Ep. 401: "How is Pond?"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Johnroderick, Thelongwinters, Merlinmann, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Mr. Hurt Hands.

The Problem: John doesn’t want his diary to just be a list of cricks.

(Recorded on Monday, October 19, 2020.)


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0:00.0

Hello.

0:06.6

Hi, John.

0:08.3

Oh, hello, Merlin, man.

0:10.2

Hi, how's it going?

0:13.1

I was good.

0:14.5

I mean, it was going really good until just a second or two ago.

0:19.8

Oh, no.

0:21.4

Yeah, I realized that I have an injury and I don't, it's a new injury.

0:29.1

And it's one I don't recognize because I was not conscious of having an injury until I started to walk down the stairs, at which point my right knee,

0:41.6

which is not my bad knee, yet, started to...

0:47.0

Did you have a bad knee and a worse knee?

0:49.1

I have, well, I have a bad knee and a knee that's been doing the heavy lifting, if you know what I mean.

0:55.5

I have a bad knee and then a knee that keeps bailing it out of jail.

1:00.6

It's an enabler knee.

1:02.1

It's an enabler knee.

1:03.3

That's right.

1:03.7

It should have been tough on the bad knee a long time ago.

1:06.2

But now it, I was walking down the stairs and about three steps down, I was like, I was, it was, uh, it hurts so badly.

1:14.3

I was, I struggled to get down the stairs and not spill my coffee.

1:20.1

And it didn't, it didn't hurt laying in bed.

1:22.7

It didn't hurt walking around on flat surfaces.

1:25.8

It's just a walk down the stairs injury.

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