Ep. 423: "Post-Medicine John"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2021
⏱️ 83 minutes
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The Problem: There’s fifteen kinds of introvert.
(Recorded on Monday, May 3, 2021.)
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, John. Hey, Merlin. Good morning. How are you? Wow. Yes. I'm, I'm swell. That's terrific. |
| 0:15.5 | Haha. What is this a robo call? Hello. What are you trying to receive? More of our calls. |
| 0:26.8 | Please touch one. That's terrific. Um, I don't know. I'm just trying to match your energy, you know. |
| 0:34.1 | Yeah. Okay. Okay. Great. Yeah. You, uh, you're there. Oh my gosh. This is really different from |
| 0:39.4 | the previous episode we did, uh, which was more low-key. Oh, sure, sure, sure. We were all the way down |
| 0:46.2 | and now we're like, we're just writing the bright sunny day today. Question becomes which one is more |
| 0:52.6 | insufferable? Oh, I thought you were going to say which one is more real, but of course they're both real. |
| 1:00.2 | They're both real. I'm fascinated that it feels like we used to be the voice in the wilderness, |
| 1:08.2 | you know, about so many things, but we used to talk about interversion and extraversion and |
| 1:13.8 | didn't you have a word for the thing that you are? What did you call that? Oh, well, |
| 1:19.1 | metzo, I'm going to call it metzoversion. Metzoversion? Sure. That's stupid. How many is it though? |
| 1:25.8 | But anyway, I mean, I want to talk more about that, uh, because that was a really big thought |
| 1:33.1 | technology for me when you got me first ruminating about what even is interversion and extraversion. |
| 1:41.0 | And that was an extremely valuable series of conversations that we've had. And certainly, |
| 1:46.5 | it really slotted in nicely once the global pandemic started. And I think it's interesting |
| 1:52.2 | that I feel like there's more people talking about some flavor of that. And they're interrogating |
| 1:58.2 | that idea of what interversion and extraversion are. And I'm happy to hear the conversation happening. |
| 2:05.3 | Yeah, me too. I had this, I had a conversation about it two days ago. I, um, |
| 2:11.1 | you know, I mean to my new neighbor, I was talking to my new neighbor about this. |
| 2:15.2 | Yeah, same thing. I had a play date, uh, you know, uh, the kids now are getting to have modified |
| 2:21.2 | play dates a little bit. And I had a play date in the, um, and the mom of the, of the little girl |
| 2:28.1 | that had come over for a play date was somebody that I really enjoyed back in, uh, back in the old days. |
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