Ep. 410: "Trunk Full of Tab"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Johnroderick, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Thelongwinters, Merlinmann

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

The Problem: We’ve all got our twenties tragedies.

(Recorded on Monday, January 25, 2021.)

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0:00.0	Hello?
0:06.4	Hi, John.
0:09.0	Hi, Merlin.
0:11.5	The bitch is back.
0:13.5	Something's wrong with the thing here.
0:16.1	Well, wrong.
0:17.7	Hang on. I tried to restart, but let me get it right. Let me get it right. It sounds like it might be an A.V. problem? It's, um, you know, I need to, I need to call the AV girl. Okay. You're going to have the gal come up, bring up the cart. Listen, I'm doing so much with technology now. If now if I have so many projects involving technology
0:39.2	I just move from from one to the next like like I'm spinning plates on Ed Sullivan except
0:44.0	it's wires a lot of the time I wish I really wish that I had let's see what if I got a built-in
0:50.1	output that's not right. Yeah.
0:58.2	I really wish I had your enthusiasm about technology, Merlin.
0:59.2	I really wish I did.
1:02.0	Well, no, no.
1:06.8	I'm sort of like Brad Pitt in glorious bastards.
1:11.3	Like on some level, I love my work, but my work is not pretty.
1:12.5	But somebody's got to do it.
1:13.4	Also, I'm from Tennessee.
1:15.0	Right.
1:16.1	What's his name?
1:18.2	Old Hickory, Jim Memphis?
1:19.0	What's his name?
1:21.5	Philo Farnsworth.
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