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Roderick on the Line

Ep. 419: "God's Cursive"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Johnroderick, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Thelongwinters, Merlinmann

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2021

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

The Spirit of the Law.

The Problem: There’s no book about right now.

(Recorded on Monday, March 29, 2021.)

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, hi John. I'm Erlin. How's it going?

0:13.2

Caribbean Queen, the same dream. William Ocean. I have a Alice in Chain songs stuck in my head.

0:34.6

And so what does one do about that? But try and get it out of your head by singing Billy Ocean.

0:41.2

I feel like I remember hearing that there's a universal cleanser. I don't think there could be a universal, like truly universal.

0:48.9

You would know, though. That's a very Merlin man thing. The universal cleanser.

0:55.5

I'm going to do what I usually don't do. How to get a song out of your head.

1:02.0

I was going to say, I was going to say the remotes.

1:04.8

The remotes, my first pick, Abba was my second pick. Get out of the loop to a puzzle.

1:10.0

Did you ever say Abba or did you at one point say Abba and then you switched to Abba like Mug and Mug?

1:16.0

Yeah, I did that. Second one. That's all right.

1:19.6

Do you think I'm being a little bit fancy or as we see in my house, Fancy?

1:23.0

Abba? Abba? What does your aunt say?

1:28.2

You know, I'm mobbed up with that now. It's so dumb. It's so dumb. It's my uncle.

1:35.4

Your aunt?

1:38.4

I'm pretty sure it's got to be a, you know, if not a Providence thing, maybe a Rhode Island thing.

1:43.3

Maybe it's a Northeastern thing, like a New England thing.

1:46.8

Yeah, a New England, yeah.

1:49.3

I don't say aunt. I don't say Abba, but I do say Mug.

1:57.9

Yeah. I don't want to seem dumb.

2:00.2

But see, then there's also the corollary, and I'm not going to look this up, but I heard,

2:05.7

I've heard it said, and you could tell me, because you're a Franco file.

2:09.0

There's a film festival in a city.

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