Ep. 444: "Blue Link Girlfriend"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Self-help, Merlinmann, Thelongwinters, Johnroderick, Roderick, Winters, Long, The, Philosophy, Society & Culture, John, Merlin, Mann

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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The Problem: John needs a reverse annulment.

(Recorded on Monday, November 15, 2021.)

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0:00.0	Hello. Hi, John. Hi, Merlin. Oh, we have fun. Don't we?
0:13.5	Nice to hear from you. Oh, it's nice to hear. Yeah, it's been a while.
0:21.8	Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. God, you've become quite a performer. Well, thank you.
0:30.3	Yes. Thank you. That's a compliment. It is a compliment. I guess you're quite a character.
0:37.0	There's not quite a character. Things. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Quite a performer.
0:40.4	Not a ball in the air. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. How's your balls? How does many balls in the air actually
0:46.0	as it as it is in times past, right? I got this. I got quite a few balls in the air more than
0:51.0	most. I think I think that's laudable. I think it's laudable. I think people got too many balls
0:56.5	too much air. Oh, you know, people aren't meant to communicate with each other. No. No, you know,
1:03.1	you and I talk once a week and that's that's nice, but that's about it. You know, this is the thing
1:08.0	with this is the thing with the internet. I don't know if you've heard, but the internet's in crisis.
1:12.0	Oh, no, what happened? Well, people aren't meant to communicate with each other. We thought it was
1:15.8	a great idea. Remember? Didn't it seem like a great idea? I feel like I do. I feel like I do. It
1:20.9	was a while back. Uh-huh. Um, but I, I feel like a lot of the, a lot of the notion that we should
1:28.0	be communicating with each other, uh, a lot of that came along before we actually started communicating
1:33.3	with each other. And I think, I think we kind of saw how that turned out. Yeah, it used to be hard.
1:39.0	And so we thought, wow, we should make it easy. And then we did make it easy and all the things we
1:44.6	used to say, sitting around the cafe, wow, once there's an internet and we can all talk to each other.
1:50.1	Yes. The things will do. Yeah. And now subtle arguments, you know, look up, look up the names
1:57.0	of, uh, of actresses and who they were used to be married to. We can still do that. It's nice.
2:03.8	But I mean, that is a form of communication in some way, but we talk to each other too much. I
2:10.7	think about too many things too often. And too many of us too many too too too too many of us.
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