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🗓️ 14 March 2022
⏱️ 81 minutes
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The Problem: John has some minor electrical problems.
(Recorded on Monday, March 14, 2022.)
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| 0:00.0 | They fuck you up your mum and dad they may not mean to but they do |
| 0:13.4 | Hi John |
| 0:15.4 | Hi, Merlin how's it going good you backing up is that what you're doing? |
| 0:20.5 | You back it up there a little bit. Yes a little bit of backing up a little bit of backup at my office |
| 0:27.0 | Mm-hmm. No, it's going good. It's going it's going real real good. So this hasn't interfered with any of your other podcasting |
| 0:33.8 | I'm guessing no and it doesn't bother any of the listeners |
| 0:38.6 | Mm-hmm. I think I said this last time we recorded but you know, I'm trying to adopt a positive attitude about it |
| 0:44.0 | You have maintained a positive attitude |
| 0:46.7 | Frustrating it's not annoying. It's it's it's you know like you used to say a long time ago |
| 0:51.4 | I think you were speaking in particular of the people's of Czechoslovakia |
| 0:56.0 | Mm-hmm, and how you people say they don't like bureaucracy will bureaucracy is what fixes a hole in the road |
| 1:00.9 | I think what it was just about that your exact words, but pretty there it is. There it is. That's right |
| 1:05.6 | Um, that's right. God does not make the rat. No wait God does make the rat God makes the the rat |
| 1:12.0 | It's the city of San Francisco that doesn't make the rat for one of a nail the lady with a fly was lost |
| 1:17.8 | Right the lady sold the fly in order to buy a nail |
| 1:22.4 | And the carpenter sold the hammer in order to buy a fly swatter |
| 1:27.8 | It's like the guy from razorfish says people don't really want a painting on the wall |
| 1:31.4 | They want to be happy they they buy a drill they buy a drill to get a painting on the wall |
| 1:35.4 | Here's the thing John. I've decided that I'm gonna focus on the positive |
| 1:39.4 | I'm gonna as the as the man says in the song accentuate the positive. Are you gonna eliminate the name? |
| 1:45.4 | Eliminate that now that should have been a startup name |
| 1:48.3 | Um, but why isn't it? I bet it is |
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