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Roderick on the Line

Ep. 434: "John and the Girls"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Thelongwinters, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Merlinmann, Johnroderick

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2021

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

It's not my fault but it IS my problem.

The Problem: John was in a rolling bubble.

(Recorded on Monday, August 16, 2021.)

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Everything is energy on.

0:02.3

Oh, I'm Merlin.

0:11.5

How are you?

0:13.5

I'm good.

0:14.5

Oh, I'm good.

0:15.5

Thank you.

0:16.5

It's been a long time since we talked.

0:18.7

Oh, it's been such a long time.

0:20.3

I don't mean to come in hot.

0:21.7

But you know, there's a thing that happens sometimes, and then nothing that happens with

0:26.3

me.

0:27.3

Yes.

0:28.3

In case like what happened here this morning, which is that my entire Macintosh computer

0:33.3

set up, there's something that's not working, and it had been working.

0:37.1

Something like that disconnected, and I couldn't tell what, you know, the problem with connections,

0:41.5

you know, as James Burke told us, is things get connected to other things, and then you

0:45.4

can't tell where the failing connection is, and then you and I actually had, well, you

0:52.2

know, you know, you and I had agreed to push a little, like we do, you know, and then

0:58.0

I found myself singing aloud, a line from a song, or from they might be giants, which

1:04.6

is, I think that I do sometimes, yes, I know when this happens, and here's what I, here's

1:09.6

what I just said, everything is catching on fire, yes, because the jury Lewis covered

1:16.7

that.

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