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Roderick on the Line

Ep. 67: "All of the Small Beer"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Thelongwinters, Society & Culture, Merlinmann, Philosophy, Johnroderick

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2013

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Placing a thumbprint of scorn.

Roderick on the Line, Ep. 67: “All of the Small Beer” on Huffduffer

The Problem: Fixing the problem at the attitude level.

Transcript

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0:00.0

there he is

0:06.1

hi john did you get you figure out my signals

0:10.0

yes yes i did yes i did i'm so sorry see i at some point i was playing the guitar

0:19.8

in my studio room and I hit a cup of coffee with the headstock of my guitar because I was playing a really aggressive part.

0:34.3

And some of the coffee sloshed on my keyboard, my computer keyboard.

0:42.6

Which, it's a wireless keyboard, and it caused it to initially only be able to type numeric, like characters, like the dollar sign and the perenn.

0:58.2

And, and like, all the non-letters.

1:02.5

Yeah, like, uh, like, like, like, like, yen. I could express a lot of yen.

1:07.4

Because I had the symbol for yen.

1:11.8

Um, and then it just stopped altogether.

1:14.9

And so I sit at the computer and you are you are Skype messaging me saying,

1:21.5

here we go.

1:22.8

Ready?

1:23.4

Ready to go?

1:24.3

Big guy.

1:25.3

And I'm like yelling at the computer.

1:28.7

I'm here, I'm here.

1:30.4

And then I realized I could text you, but then you probably had your phone off.

1:35.6

Oh, God, where to begin?

1:37.5

I'm so sorry.

1:38.0

Yeah, I keep my phone away.

1:43.1

You know?

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