Ep. 452: "Among the Scumbags"

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

🗓️ 7 February 2022

⏱️ 76 minutes

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The Problem: Davey always should have been famous.

(Recorded on Monday, February 7, 2022.)

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0:00.0	Hello. Hi, John. Hey, Merlin. How's it going? Good. I had a little hot plug situation.
0:12.4	Hot plug. Did you get a fix? You feel like? I did. I hot plug did. I hot unplugged. Good. I hot
0:17.2	plugged it. Whoo. You never know, though. You never know. And this is how you know it's OCD.
0:22.8	It's because then you go and you think the thing worked. And then later on, of course,
0:25.9	you find out it didn't work too late. Yeah, I got just checking on it. You know, somebody,
0:31.6	somebody said the files didn't come through. And I was like, oh, I didn't want to hear that.
0:37.2	No, I mean, oh, it happened to me last week. It happened to me. I stand here. I stand here a
0:41.5	mute witness to the problems of technology. But not you know, I'm mute because there aren't many
0:46.4	files that are blocked. Let's get over here. You know what I think it is? I think it's a Damon.
0:52.4	Run it. It's running scripts in the background. Oh, you think might be some scriptkitties running
0:58.0	some Israeli Stuxnet Stuxnet Stuxnet. That's what I Stuxnet. That's what I think it is.
1:04.2	Baby Mossad. What do you eat or drinking? You're making a sound right exactly between eating and
1:11.8	drinking and which makes it worse. What is it? It's coffee. It's coffee. The most delicious thing to
1:16.7	eat and drink. My sleep's all screwed up again. But only last night. Only last night.
1:24.2	Just during the review. Could you review? Please just quickly because I know we're getting
1:27.6	new listeners literally every day. I read the trades. John, you have a long history of having a,
1:32.8	shall we say, a problematic, I hate the fucking word. You're sleep has sucked for years and been
1:37.6	erratic and strange and you felt bad about it, which is what we in Buddhism called the second
1:42.2	era. Then I won't say out of nowhere, but recently you turned a corner. Start there. What
1:48.1	happened when you turned a corner recently, John? The corner boy I started sleeping like a regular
1:51.7	person and it was, you know, I think I was always afraid the other day against all better judgment.
1:57.5	I was on Facebook because I had come on. We've talked about this. I know, but I had a friend
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