Ep. 469: "Culmination"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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The Problem: There was a very dirty guy.
(Recorded on Monday, August 8, 2022.)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hi John. Oh, hi there, Merlin. Good morning. Oh, it is a good morning. Just a splendid morning. |
| 0:15.3 | Yeah. What's the air would move more? Your air isn't moving? Yeah, I don't like to talk |
| 0:21.6 | about the weather, but you know, I know you don't. I don't, um, but you know what it's like here |
| 0:27.7 | usually. And I don't know. It's just, it's, it's, it's muggy. Yeah. But you know, and again, |
| 0:33.8 | you can't complain. This is, this is, it's hot everywhere, but I'm just saying it's, it matters |
| 0:39.8 | because it's me. Yeah, you wish it would move a little more. And that's, that's perfectly |
| 0:45.2 | understandable. Yeah. I run fans because I'm a big believer in ventilation. Uh-huh. But you can't do |
| 0:55.4 | that when you're, when you're making an audio for the internet. Oh, right. Although what's in |
| 1:00.8 | the show is in the show. You know, that's true. And I think I've embraced that pretty well. I mean, |
| 1:08.3 | obviously I've embraced that sort of existentially, but also, you know, in a very realistic hands-on |
| 1:14.2 | sense with the, the various road work things. There's new road work things that I think are fixing |
| 1:19.2 | to start now. So we'll get to embrace that soon. Oh, you're not talking about the, the famous |
| 1:24.8 | road work podcast with Dan Benjamin. You're talking about actual work on the road. |
| 1:30.0 | I don't know. Uh-huh. Do you have a preference? You know, you know, what you said before |
| 1:37.7 | applies to both things. So the, oh, PG&E's coming up for you guys too. |
| 1:42.4 | Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And then make that nice visit with the PG&E guy this morning. |
| 1:48.0 | A guy you know already? No, no, no, no. I just, John, as you know, you and I are both with, uh, |
| 1:54.0 | well, for better or for worse, what were guys who talk to people, talk to workers? Yes, yes, yes. |
| 1:59.2 | Yeah, I heard this kachunk, kachunk. And he was out there with his, uh, staple guns, staple up |
| 2:03.1 | new signs. And just we had a little visit about that, you know, and I, I commiserated a little bit |
| 2:09.2 | about the difficulty of project management. And he's like, yeah, and, and I quoted Marco Armett |
| 2:14.0 | with one of the greatest quotes I've heard in the last five years. I said, I said, you know, |
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