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Roderick on the Line

Ep. 64: "Sunset University"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Thelongwinters, Society & Culture, Merlinmann, Philosophy, Johnroderick

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2013

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

It's like Catholic Rumspringa.

Roderick on the Line - Ep. 64, “Sunset University” on Huffduffer

The Problem: Let’s say you had a two-frog cannon.

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0:00.0

Hello. Hi John. Hi John. Hi, Merlin. How's it going? Good my I've got my settings all screwed up here. I have to adjust my settings.

0:14.3

Check my little music?

0:16.3

Yeah.

0:17.3

You have a presence setting adjustment music?

0:19.8

I can do that.

0:20.8

Nenen. I was at an architectural salvage yard the other day. Of course you were.

0:27.8

And I was digging through some bins and there was a whole bin of old headphones like you would see, you would see in a secretarial pool or a library, you know, like the headphones we used in the library.

0:44.0

Oh, with the like plasticy, cheap, not very useful padding?

0:49.0

Correct.

0:50.0

And I was digging through these headphones and I noticed that they had written on them in Black

0:58.9

Penn, the name of my childhood elementary school. They said sunset on them, all of them. I was

1:07.7

looking through them I was like sunset sunset that couldn't be sunset elementary and I walked up to the to the Gallup

1:16.1

accountant and I was like are these did you guys do a salvage from an old elementary

1:20.1

school and she said oh yeah some elementary school up in Shoreline and I realized

1:24.1

these were the headphones these were the actual headphones in the library of

1:28.9

the elementary school I went to when I was a little kid and lived in Seattle

1:32.0

so I bought them all to when I was a little kid and lived in Seattle.

1:33.0

So I bought them all.

1:35.4

And now I have all of these headphones.

1:40.7

You might have watched the world at war with those on your head.

1:45.0

Absolutely. I watched microfiche. I watched film strips. I watched who knows what I probably took French lessons anyway so I bought these

1:54.6

headphones because I was so excited to have the you know to have the real a real

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