Ep. 412: "A Poke of Gold"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2021
⏱️ 80 minutes
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(Recorded on Monday, February 8, 2021.)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hi, John Oh, hi, Merlin. How's it going? Oh |
| 0:12.6 | I'm in the upside down completely now. What what happened tell me I just might I my sleep is completely upside down |
| 0:20.4 | Oh John in the morning every night. No, give me the whole story. Give me the whole story. Tell me what happened last night. Well, I just was |
| 0:29.1 | I laid down on the couch at about 8 p.m. It's just the wrong time to take a nap. Oh, no. Did you know |
| 0:40.1 | I could you feel a nap coming? Oh, yeah. Oh boy. Yeah, yeah. I see this as I started to do this 730 nap |
| 0:45.9 | and then you know, I don't see I wake up at whenever 930 it's not like a it's not like a 10 hour nap |
| 0:56.0 | No, but it's but it's enough to take out the incentive to have a proper sleepy sleep |
| 1:03.7 | And then you know, here I am like |
| 1:07.5 | Completely off of social media and still staring at my phone at four o'clock in the morning |
| 1:13.7 | And I don't even know what I'm doing. I'm on there playing brick breaker brick a brick. Oh |
| 1:18.5 | Brick a brick you should get into YouTube with me |
| 1:22.1 | I'm telling you man YouTube YouTube is a perfect man perfect one. One doesn't say perfect |
| 1:27.5 | It's a nice replacement for social media. Here's what I watched on YouTube last night. Okay. I watched |
| 1:36.7 | The supposedly greatest version of Eddie Van Halen's eruption ever live live. Yeah, I've seen I've seen several of those |
| 1:43.9 | Yeah, yep. I watched I watched Leonard Skinner at the 1976 |
| 1:49.6 | California Oakland jam |
| 1:53.3 | Play free bird I |
| 1:56.5 | What else did I watch on YouTube last night? Oh |
| 2:00.9 | Yeah, I've Van Halen doing a cover of |
| 2:05.9 | What's that song from fair warning that's that's like actually fun and not really dark? I mean they're all dark |
| 2:12.9 | But what's the one that's |
| 2:14.9 | I'm not unchained |
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