Ep. 407: "A Constellation of Pushbacks"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Johnroderick, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Thelongwinters, Merlinmann

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

The Problem: John was either a dork or a goober.

(Recorded on Monday, December 7, 2020.)

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0:00.0	Hello. Hi John.
0:07.0	Hi John.
0:08.0	Hi, Merlin. How's it going?
0:10.0	Good.
0:13.0	Is it early?
0:14.0	Got it.
0:15.0	Pretty early.
0:16.0	I've not been going to sleep at on time at the right time.
0:20.0	Huh.
0:21.0	I went to sleep at five in the morning and it's too early to wake up if you go to sleep at five in the morning.
0:28.0	Yeah, yeah. No reason either. No reason. It's not like, I mean, midichlorians, the only reason I can think of.
0:35.4	Have you been tested for that? Be honest.
0:37.8	I'm pretty high up in the midichlorians.
0:41.6	I'm not surprised at all.
0:44.0	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:45.0	It's like when you have your really smart friends
0:47.0	is, oh, I just got an IQ test.
0:49.0	I mean IQ's like 780 or whatever.
0:51.0	Maybe that's I say 10.
0:52.0	I don't know. Yeah 780 in math 781 like real good
0:56.2	and you go like I'm not surprised because you seem really smart in your case I bet you could
1:00.4	wield the powers of the force with an almost singular level of focus.
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