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Roderick on the Line

Ep. 68: "The Opposite of Sherlock Holmes"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Thelongwinters, Society & Culture, Merlinmann, Philosophy, Johnroderick

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2013

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Nobody expects to work for IBM for 40 years.

The Problem: Four days later, John stopped being cute.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello.

0:08.5

Hey, John.

0:10.4

Hi, Merlin.

0:11.6

How's it going?

0:13.7

Merlin, man.

0:16.2

I got to live with that every week.

0:25.5

Well, which part?

0:27.2

Well, just the disappointment of knowing you deserve something better.

0:30.6

And I like to think of myself as a relatively productive person

0:34.7

who should be able to make a note to come up with a good song for you.

0:38.6

Well, in my whole life, I have been pretty resistant to nicknames. People have always tried to

0:47.6

nickname me, and it just doesn't stick. And I'm one of who is most, mostly known as John Roderick, both, both, both names.

0:59.5

You know what I mean?

1:00.3

Like, people just call me John Roderick.

1:02.2

Yeah.

1:03.1

And in, in college, oh, they threw nicknames at me every which way.

1:07.1

And, and, and just they all bounced off.

1:09.4

So I'm wondering whether, uh uh it's the same with theme

1:12.7

music i can't be themed i have to imagine that when you were in college you did a lot of nickname

1:21.1

friendly material yeah but everybody's always trying to like call me saskwatcher or

1:26.7

or you know, I mean, rad dog.

1:31.9

I got called rad dog.

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