Ep. 421: "My Mom's Ohio"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
The Problem: There are too many stadia in this town.
(Recorded on Monday, April 12, 2021.)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. |
| 0:06.4 | Hi, John. |
| 0:08.1 | Hi, Merlin. |
| 0:09.5 | How's it going? |
| 0:10.7 | Two minutes early. |
| 0:12.3 | I don't like to talk about the show on the show, but you're two minutes early. |
| 0:14.9 | I'm two minutes early. |
| 0:17.5 | Two minutes too early. |
| 0:22.1 | Killing the unborn in the womb! |
| 0:26.0 | That's not what I'm doing. |
| 0:28.4 | Tasing the redskins back to their homes. |
| 0:32.1 | You know who loves history is Iron Maiden. |
| 0:35.0 | They love history. |
| 0:36.4 | They do. |
| 0:36.9 | All their songs sound like troops galloping. You know, the charge of the Light Brigade, not a great idea. No, it turned out, it turned out, it didn't work out for them. John, is that a classic pincer maneuver? It's even worse than a pincer maneuver, right? It's more like you just, you see a pincer and then you walk into it. Yeah, that's right. They rode into a... Is it a cattling or the cedling, John? I think they did the old West thing where they rode into a canyon and they didn't look up. You don't want to do that. No, that's bad. Is, you know... Have I heard correctly, it's important that the position, when you're in some kind of a martial situation, it's best to, it's all about position, right? |
| 1:19.8 | It's about position, Merlin. |
| 1:21.3 | That's absolutely right. |
| 1:22.3 | It's a position, position, position, as they say. |
| 1:26.8 | I love the Army agents are always saying. |
| 1:31.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:32.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:32.7 | Well, and it's true because like when my father was in Korea, the story goes, I believe this is a true story. |
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