Ep. 43: "Waiting for Our Duck"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2012
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Ep. 43: “Waiting for Our Duck” - Roderick on the Line - Merlin Mann on Huffduffer
The Problem: Perfect storm for a little wiener dog.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. Hi John. |
| 0:05.0 | Hi John. |
| 0:07.0 | Hi, Merlin. |
| 0:08.0 | How are you? |
| 0:10.0 | Merlin, man? |
| 0:12.0 | You know? |
| 0:13.0 | Chka! |
| 0:14.0 | I worry about the... |
| 0:18.0 | I worry about the Freddie Mercury Estate coming after me. |
| 0:20.0 | Yeah, I understand that. |
| 0:22.0 | He has powerful lawyers. |
| 0:24.0 | Mm-hmm. |
| 0:25.0 | You know, yeah, sometimes the family can be pretty tightly wound about the intellectual property of dead people. You know this, right? |
| 0:33.0 | You're talking about the family of a dead creative person who is now living off of the creative |
| 0:38.8 | person's creative works. The fat of the dead. Oh, the fat of the dead. |
| 0:44.0 | Mm-hmm. |
| 0:45.0 | I can think of two. |
| 0:46.0 | The Elvis Presley family, God love them. |
| 0:48.0 | They will license his name and likeness to be on pretty much everything. |
| 0:53.0 | That's one. |
| 0:54.0 | But the one that really gets me is, boy, this guy is such a cock sucker, |
| 0:57.2 | James Joyce's grandson. |
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