Ep. 428: "Pyramid of Spoons"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2021
⏱️ 90 minutes
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The Problem: Do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy?
(Recorded on Monday, June 14, 2021)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. Hi, John. Oh, hello, Merlin. How's it going? Merlin. Hey, John. You're just John. You're just |
| 0:16.0 | John, right? Just John. Just John. That's right. No artificial ingredients. No preservatives, no |
| 0:23.6 | bovines, hormones. Oh, really? None at all. None. Huh? Huh? Did you ever have concerns about what? I |
| 0:32.6 | don't want to call it a diminutive. You're a big guy. Yeah. Did everybody that you were not a |
| 0:37.3 | Jonathan? No, no, no, no. Jonathan's are other completely other. And you know, I don't, I don't |
| 0:44.0 | know a single Jonathan that really prefers to be called John. Oh, God. You know, you had a guy in |
| 0:50.8 | your band called Jonathan. And I think if we put you guys next to each other, I don't think that's |
| 0:55.6 | going to be a difficult Pepsi challenge for most people. But you know, John Stewart is Jonathan. |
| 1:00.4 | Not a John. The TV man. Yeah. But I think he, um, I think he just settled on John. But it's, I |
| 1:07.2 | don't, I bet. Yeah. I bet he had to change, he had to change it at Ellis Island because it was |
| 1:10.7 | Johnowitz. I bet you, if you sat down with him and you got him to stop being funny. Uh-huh. |
| 1:17.6 | And you're like, let's start getting real. Let's just get serious for a second. Would you have |
| 1:22.0 | preferred that your show be late night with Jonathan Stewart? He would say he would look down at the |
| 1:26.7 | floor and he would go, yeah, I would, I would have preferred that. That sounds, if I could say that |
| 1:30.7 | sounds English. Jonathan. Jonathan Stewart. Late night with John or whatever it's called. The |
| 1:35.9 | daily show with Jonathan Stewart. Sounds like something on BBC 7 or something. Yeah, it does. He |
| 1:40.6 | sounds like a, uh, he sounds like a, uh, a Grand Prix driver. Oh, Grand Prix. Yeah, you get, you get |
| 1:47.3 | John's, you get Jonathan's, you get Johnny's. And then I guess there's Jack's. Yeah. It's, uh, |
| 1:53.8 | I think I told you this before, but my, uh, my first pick for, uh, the name of our, our child, |
| 1:59.6 | you know, even before they do the tests and everything, you're thinking about names, you're making |
| 2:03.6 | lists. And of the, of the, uh, you know, female birth names, uh, my first pick was, uh, very much |
| 2:11.6 | up my alley. And that was, I chose the name that I thought, have I told you this story? I don't think |
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