Ep. 434: "John and the Girls"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2021
⏱️ 79 minutes
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The Problem: John was in a rolling bubble.
(Recorded on Monday, August 16, 2021.)
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| 0:00.0 | Everything is energy on. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello. |
| 0:08.0 | Hi, John. |
| 0:10.0 | Oh, hi, Marilyn. |
| 0:12.0 | How are you? |
| 0:13.0 | I'm good. How are you? |
| 0:15.0 | Oh, I'm good. Thank you. |
| 0:16.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:17.0 | It's been a long time since we talked. |
| 0:19.0 | Oh, it's been such a long time. I don't mean to come in hot. But, you know, there's a thing that happens sometimes. And then another thing that happens with me. Yes. We're like a case like what happened here this morning, which is that my entire Macintosh computer set up, there's something that's not working. It hadn't been working. Something like got disconnected and I couldn't tell what. |
| 0:39.4 | And, you know, the problem with connections, you know, as James Burke told us, is things get |
| 0:43.9 | connected to other things. |
| 0:45.1 | And then you can't tell where the failing connection is. |
| 0:48.2 | Right. |
| 0:48.4 | And then you and I. |
| 0:50.0 | Things fall apart. |
| 0:51.3 | Well, you know, you and I had had agreed to push a little like we do, you know. |
| 0:56.9 | Sure, sure. |
| 0:57.6 | And then I found myself singing aloud a line from a song from They Might Be Giants, which is a thing that I do sometimes. |
| 1:06.9 | Yes, I know. |
| 1:07.9 | When this happens. |
| 1:08.7 | And here's what I just said. |
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