Ep. 510: "Dr. Pole"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Self-help, Merlinmann, Thelongwinters, Johnroderick, Roderick, Winters, Long, The, Philosophy, Society & Culture, John, Merlin, Mann

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🗓️ 29 August 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

The Problem: Pimples are an opportunity.

John and Merlin have a wide-ranging conversation.

(Recorded on Monday, August 28, 2023.)

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0:00.0	Hello. Hi, John. Hi, Merlin. How's it going? Hi, Merlin. Hi. Hi. Hi. You did all right.
0:14.7	Well, you know, I adjusted my settings. Oh, and it's much better. Oh, I'm sorry, now I'm adjusting mine.
0:24.4	You're your audio settings. Yeah, I adjusted my audience. Can you tell? I mean, you know, when you
0:31.5	when you got a Faber-J egg, you know, you don't take it with them. That's right. Well, but wait,
0:36.8	you just adjusted your settings. So you can't tell whether I adjusted mine because you adjusted yours.
0:41.4	Oh, my God. The call is coming from inside the device of the Faber-J egg.
0:47.8	Actually, you wait, you do sound a little more present. Oh, see?
0:52.4	No, no, no, but that wouldn't be a volume thing, right? Would it? Oh, maybe not. Maybe you're right.
0:56.8	Maybe it's a presence. Are you present? I look at that album yesterday and I couldn't recognize
1:02.6	a single song on it. That's the one that doesn't have any recognizable songs. I think that's the one.
1:07.9	And it's got a cover by those clever boys in hypnosis and it's people sitting around a table.
1:14.0	Yeah, I definitely went through a phase where I felt like, oh, you don't, if you're not listening
1:19.4	to presence, then you're not listening to Zeppelin. But I mean, you know,
1:22.8	Enter the Outdoor is very good. And if you want kind of, you know, some post houses of the
1:29.2	Holy Fun, you're saying if you want weird Zeppelin, kind of, but like, isn't the first song on
1:35.7	Enter the Outdoor in the evening? And then oh, my God. I said something on the internet. Yes,
1:45.2	damn, I said, I'm a little screwed up, John, because I may have, I may have drank some acetone
1:48.5	this morning. So just keep an eye, you know, okay. If anything seems off, I've got 911 on speed dial.
1:55.9	Hit 911. Uh-huh. And then when you stop hearing me hit the other one. But I'm essentially like
2:00.7	Dr. Jekyll standing here with a flask on my hand going, huh? How did this happen? I mean, I don't
2:06.8	want to tell you. No, no, no, you. We don't have a sponsor this week. That's funny. Um,
2:14.6	I got to turn this up. Your, my mix is wrong. My, uh, my, my, my pre-NPC or keep talking, say
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