Ep. 412: "A Poke of Gold"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Johnroderick, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Thelongwinters, Merlinmann

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2021

⏱️ 80 minutes

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The Problem: You never know when you’re going to need more money.

(Recorded on Monday, February 8, 2021.)

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0:00.0	Hello? Hi, John. Oh, hi, Merlin. How's it going? Oh, I'm in the upside down completely now.
0:15.3	What? What happened? Tell me. I just, my sleep is completely upside down. Oh, John.
0:21.5	I'm up until 6 o'clock in the morning every night.
0:23.3	No.
0:24.1	Give me the whole story.
0:25.4	Give me the whole story.
0:26.2	Tell me what happened last night.
0:28.0	Well, I just was, I laid down on the couch at about 8 p.m.
0:36.2	Which is the wrong time to take a nap. Oh, no. Did you know what? Could you feel a nap coming? Oh, yeah. Oh, boy. Yeah, yeah. I see, this is I started to do this, 7.30 nap. Ugh. And then, you know, let's see. I wake up at whatever, 9.30. It's not like a, it's not like a 10 hour nap.
0:56.3	No, but it's, but it's enough to, to take out the incentive to have a proper sleepy sleep.
1:02.1	Mm-hmm.
1:03.6	And then, you know, here I am, like, completely off of social media and still staring at my phone at 4 o'clock in the morning.
1:13.9	And I don't even know what I'm doing.
1:15.2	I'm on there playing brick breaker.
1:17.4	Bricker brick.
1:18.2	Oh.
1:18.7	Brickerbrick.
1:19.5	You should get into YouTube with me.
1:22.5	I'm telling you, man, YouTube.
1:24.1	YouTube is a perfect, man, perfect.
1:26.4	One doesn't say perfect.
1:27.7	It's a nice replacement for social media.
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