Ep. 455: "The Birds Aren't Real Party"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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The Problem: The Bang Bang Machine brought some friends.
(Recorded on Monday, March 7, 2022.)
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| 0:00.0 | And the The You can't hear that game. |
| 0:27.0 | Um, hey John! |
| 0:30.0 | You have a little trouble with your breakfast. |
| 0:35.0 | Oh man, it's um... |
| 0:38.0 | It's amazing, it really is amazing. |
| 0:40.0 | Beep, beep. |
| 0:41.0 | There's a lot going on. Okay, here's the thing though. You know? I think all of the world is watching Ukraine and we're all in our way wanting to do our part yes I feel like that's me right now I'm like |
| 0:56.7 | Clarissa Ward or oh boy or maybe like oh I want to send you I want to send you this video. |
| 1:04.0 | They're using the big loader guy to slam long steel beams into the ground. |
| 1:12.0 | Oh, sure So a driver. Well yeah I've decided I'm into it because you know who knows when I'll be able to prove myself this way again. |
| 1:20.0 | Mm-hmm. That's a it's testing you. It's testing me and testing our listeners to be sure. |
| 1:26.2 | Testing our all of our metal. |
| 1:27.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:28.8 | Yes, it's very metal. |
| 1:29.8 | Hey, I am I am following the Ukraine. have a friend who has taken it upon himself to take all the good tweets about Ukraine and text them to me. |
| 1:47.0 | Oh my gosh so you've got a, God what is that? |
| 1:50.0 | You're like almost like a dead drop, like a news dead drop dead drop yeah because I've tried to follow it on the news you know I've had a lot to say about social |
| 1:57.8 | media in the last year but there's one thing but there's one thing that it's amazing at which is breaking news from the front lines. |
| 2:06.3 | Yeah, yeah. And there's just you know trying to follow it through the mainstream media. |
| 2:10.3 | They're like, did you know the Russians have invaded Ukraine and then on |
| 2:14.1 | Twitter of course it's like I'm in the foxhole and yeah so he's so you got |
| 2:19.5 | somebody who's so there's a lot to that job because part of it is obviously they're there |
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