Ep. 485: "Ancient Woo"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

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🗓️ 3 January 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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The Problem: Things come over John’s family transom.

(Recorded on Monday, January 2, 2023.)

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0:00.0	Hello. Hi, John. Happy New Year! Happy New Year!
0:14.4	See, that's what I needed that. Yeah, I need, yeah, I gotta, yeah, yeah, I'm really, I haven't
0:26.5	really talked to anybody in two weeks. I mean, like, I talked to, I've talked to some food delivery,
0:34.5	oh, a guy delivered some new parts from my drama. We talked a little bit about rain. Yeah,
0:40.5	but apart from that, you're, you're, you know, you're cracking my ice. I'm getting the fresh stuff.
0:46.9	Oh, yeah, I'm good shit. Open that loaf and smell that fresh, the yeasty, merlin. You say I'm a split-top loaf,
0:56.9	is that what you're saying? It's got the, it's got the butter in it right there in the top.
1:01.3	Butter, crevice. You've been getting a atmospheric river, is that right? Yeah, that's what they say.
1:06.5	Yeah. Yeah, I don't know, man. It seems like that's one of those phrases that use a lot in the
1:11.3	websites that don't read too often. And then when I do go, like, we have a local, local website.
1:15.6	I don't even want to mention the name because it's so bad. But you go there and you probably,
1:19.0	I don't know if you have, well, that's of chronicle. I'm hardly even allowed to look at because
1:23.6	having for a fan, I have an ad blocker. But yeah, SF gate, it's, it's pretty bad. And the,
1:29.5	the writing is extremely bad, but they use phrases like atmospheric river. Yeah, we're getting
1:35.3	that. We got a lot of rain, probably not by your standards, but like, we got a lot of rain.
1:39.9	It's funny because I never, I never heard that phrase before atmospheric river until,
1:44.8	feels like three years ago. But now, boy, it's not all anybody talks about atmospheric river.
1:50.5	Well, I think they go through these things and I don't know. It's difficult because I learned
1:54.8	about these things via, as you say, the mainstream media. I learned from the media and the thing
1:59.6	is it's hard to know, is this a media thing or is this a thing? And I know that sometimes if it's
2:03.9	a media thing long enough, it becomes a thing like the El Niño 20 years ago, you would hear about
2:08.2	the El Niño. We heard about that a lot. Or the La Durecha, or whatever, whatever one gets.
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