Ep. 422: "Alfie Doesn't Rake"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2021
⏱️ 71 minutes
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The Problem: John always felt like he should turn the taciturninity out at the world.
(Recorded on Monday, April 19, 2021.)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. |
| 0:15.0 | Hi, John. |
| 0:17.0 | Oh, hello, Marlon. |
| 0:19.0 | How's it going? |
| 0:31.2 | Well, I can't really account for this low-key voice I'm using because I don't feel especially low-key. |
| 0:32.6 | I feel kind of... I try it for a while, see how it goes. |
| 0:34.5 | Yeah, I mean, I guess it's one thing you can feel jazzed and be super, super chill. |
| 0:42.6 | It's got a little bit of Oregon public radio to it. |
| 0:46.6 | Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 0:47.8 | Did you ever think, did you ever think, did you ever think, being one of those people that is like really |
| 0:57.0 | soft spoken, slow in your, in your speaking manner and how that would change your life? |
| 1:05.0 | For real? |
| 1:06.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:07.6 | Absolutely. |
| 1:08.4 | I've even tried it on like a suit check. I've tried it sometimes. I've had different versions of that. There's the one, hang on, let me get back in character. I've had one version of that where I just say, stop talking so much, and maybe stop talking. To yourself or to others? |
| 1:24.8 | Well, I've written it down. Like, for example, when I record a different show, where I have a habit of, well, my mind race is even faster than here, probably. Come on. Nice today program. Oh, sure, sure, sure. Yeah, well, I finally wrote a note to myself. It says, follow Scott's lead and stop talking all the time. Don't, you know, I mean, I get, you know what it is? I get a little bit Robin Williams. You get going. You do get going. Like when you watch Robin Williams, as I think we've discussed here, when you watch on Carson, you watch Robin Williams with Jonathan Winters, he's so thirsty. And that's me. I'm so thirsty. I really want to impress the Jonathan Winters in my life. |
| 2:03.9 | There's a, there's a, I don't know, I think over the years I've recognized that soft-spoken people, cowboys maybe. |
| 2:14.9 | Oh, yeah. |
| 2:15.8 | You know, cowboys, they hardly say anything. |
| 2:18.5 | Yeah, real taciturn. |
| 2:19.8 | They're out there on the range. |
| 2:21.0 | They got their drive. |
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