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Roderick on the Line

Ep. 56: "We Paradise in Our Wake"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Johnroderick, Society & Culture, Thelongwinters, Philosophy, Merlinmann

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2012

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

The wax pants don't breathe.

Roderick on the Line, Ep. 56: “We Paradise in Our Wake” on Huffduffer

The Problem: Brokering a rapprochement with Terrence and the world’s angriest roof-dog.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello. Hi, John.

0:07.8

Hi, Merlin.

0:09.4

How you doing?

0:10.5

Good. I thought I'd start the show off with a throat clearing.

0:17.4

It's a little warm-up.

0:20.2

It's just a warm-up, just a taste of what's to come.

0:23.4

The throat clearing, this is the season where clearing and coughing are part of my extra communication level.

0:33.8

John, as you know, I'm not an allergist, but I never had an allergy in my life until I moved to this God-Forsaken State.

0:40.5

I used to get sick, knock on wood, I used to get sick about three and a half times more often in Florida,

0:47.5

but it was until I moved to California that I started waking up in the middle of the night, sneezing and sneezing and sneezing and I'm led to believe that where you live

0:55.9

in the Washington State area

0:57.7

it's very

0:59.6

what's not vernal

1:01.5

what do they call it verdant

1:02.5

verdant it's verdant

1:03.9

is it bucolic

1:04.9

it's both

1:06.3

it's both verdant

1:07.9

it's sneaky it's sneaky it's groopy

1:10.1

it's dopey now. But the thing about the Bay Area is that you have cat dander storms.

1:19.5

And a lot of it's not visible to the naked eye, but all the people that own cats up in the sort of wine country and Sausalito.

1:27.4

That cat dander just sweeps down over the bay. You got to take. that own cats up in the sort of wine country and Sausalito.

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