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Roderick on the Line

Ep. 420: "The New Urbanist Superhero League"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Johnroderick, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Thelongwinters, Merlinmann

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Savoring the Dick.

The Problem: You never know what a whale’s going to do.

(Recorded on Monday, April 5, 2021.)

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0:00.0

Hello, hi John. I'm Marilyn. How's it going? Good. Did you slip and fall? Oh, God. I fall on it. I can't get up. No, no. I'm yeah. Yeah, kind of. No, listen to listen or wouldn't know that if you

0:19.8

had said anything. No, no, what happened? What happened? You know what just record over this part. Yeah, I mean, I

0:26.2

got it. No, it's okay. I got to get you louder. Oh my God. I thought I was ready. And now I'm not so sure.

0:32.3

Well, can we walk through it? Can, you know, what you're as ready as you're out? You're either you're

0:41.8

as ready as you as you as you will. Okay. No, what happened? Yeah. Okay. So let's get started. No, see, I realized there

0:55.9

were still some residual things I needed to are preferred to quit. App-wise. And then accidentally I'd

1:03.0

quit. I quit Skype could the main app two seconds after you started talking, which must have seemed

1:08.8

weird. It seemed a little weird, but you know, I've grown to I've grown accustomed to computers being

1:14.8

somewhat unreliable. Oh, boy. And so I just chalked it up to just a regular. But that's the, you know, what

1:23.6

that's the nut behind the keyboard. You know what I'm saying? Pile it air, as they say. Oh, sure, sure, sure, sure.

1:30.0

I thought I could always be better. I could always be better. I'm looking out the window at squirrels

1:34.5

in the trees and I thought you meant a nut like a literal nut. And I was like, what are these San

1:40.1

Francisco software pundits going to come up with next? The nut behind the keyboard? What does that

1:44.7

even mean? Yeah. Yeah. It's, you know, it's me or you? It's a technical term, but I don't know,

1:51.7

man. I watched I've been watching a lot of stuff that involves tech community douchebags. And I

1:57.4

think I really need to take a break. I watched too many tech douchebags things yesterday. Are you

2:02.0

talking about like sitcoms? Are you talking about a YouTube's of of real tech douchebags doing

2:08.5

talks? Well, I don't want to as you know, I'm not a fan of call out culture. So I don't, if I'm

2:16.1

calling you out on this and revealing something, I hope you'll tell me so. I was watching a

2:21.7

documentary about we work. We work the site. It's a, it's like a place. It's like a, it's a

2:29.1

lifestyle. It's, I don't want to open up litigation possibilities here, but it's. We work was a heck

2:36.2

of a thing that at one point had reached a $40 billion valuation when what they mainly did was

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