Ep. 605: "Final Creek Boss"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

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

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

The Problem: John is the most left-alone person in the whole region.

(Recorded on Monday, December 8, 2025.)

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0:00.0	Hello.
0:06.4	Hi, John.
0:08.2	Hi, Merlin.
0:09.3	Good morning, Captain.
0:11.8	How are you?
0:12.2	Good morning.
0:13.1	Good morning.
0:14.5	We're staring down the barrel of an atmospheric river up here.
0:18.1	Poo!
0:18.9	I don't know about you guys.
0:19.6	That's when the rains up in the sky.
0:22.2	Real high.
0:23.5	Yep, that's right.
0:24.3	And it comes in rivers.
0:27.3	Yeah, it's because it accumulates, John.
0:28.8	Is it accumulate?
0:29.9	Somewhere down the crazy river.
0:32.2	Hey.
0:34.1	Well, it happens somewhere out over the Pacific Ocean.
0:56.5	This isn't the kind of Stephen Foster wrote songs about, right? Or what about the musical showboat? Is this this titular old man river? No, this is a different part of the world. And yet it keeps on rolling along. Is that fair to say? This one does, yes. And, you know, they talk about it out here now. It didn't used to exist we never had a term for it's i i was i've already interrupted you three times so i wasn't
1:00.3	going to do it again it strikes me there's a whole fuck ton god damn it i enjoy doing our show um
1:07.6	hi hi hi hi hi i'm going gonna learn the word for no but for now don't want to know uh yes and
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