Ep. 620: "Blown Glass Float"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Thelongwinters, Johnroderick, Merlinmann, Society & Culture, Philosophy

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🗓️ 23 March 2026

⏱️ 69 minutes

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The Problem: It was like fighting a dumb bear that thinks you’re playing.

(Recorded on Monday, March 23, 2026.)

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0:00.0	Hello. Hi, John.
0:08.8	Merlin, man. John.
0:11.3	John. Ah. Yeah.
0:14.3	Yeah.
0:15.3	Yeah.
0:16.3	Yeah.
0:17.3	Yeah.
0:18.3	Yeah.
0:19.3	Boy, I got to work on that.
0:20.2	I mean, you haven't really had that much time to work on it. You know, it's an ongoing problem, John. I, I drop bits sometimes. Not bits as in like, ha-ha, but bits as in, like, things. Like little... Oh, you, like little bits, like in the movie Tron. or like aximo yeah flakes oh no no no not like
0:41.4	e-flakes oh yeah they have a cream for that now oh e-flakes oh man that kind of feels like e-les a little bit
0:53.4	doesn't it doesn't that kind of feel like it should mean something? It does. E-flakes. I mean, I get a lot of e-flakes. Maybe e-flakes, you know, like they talk about spam and stuff like that. I feel like you drop more E-flakes than I do, and I probably drop more actual flakes. I think that's what they call a denominator problem.
1:11.6	I don't think you've ever, I have you carried a lot of flakes.
1:14.9	Hmm.
1:15.3	You have, we got nothing, you got nothing to lose, the man says.
1:18.3	When you look back and see no flakes, it's because you were carrying them.
1:22.5	We had a copy of that poem in our bathroom on the wall.
1:26.3	You did.
1:26.8	Footprints, it was called.
1:28.4	It was meant as an analogy about our Lord.
1:31.2	I know it.
1:33.0	Don't I know it?
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