Ep. 68: "The Opposite of Sherlock Holmes"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Thelongwinters, Society & Culture, Merlinmann, Philosophy, Johnroderick

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2013

⏱️ 86 minutes

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

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0:00.0	Hello.
0:08.0	Hey Chuck.
0:10.0	Hi Merlin.
0:11.0	How's it going?
0:12.0	How's it going?
0:13.0	Merlin, man.
0:15.0	Get the cow.
0:17.0	Dun, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, hmm,
0:22.0	sp-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s... I gotta live with that every week.
0:24.4	Well, which part?
0:27.0	Well, just the disappointment of knowing you deserve something better and I'd like to think of myself as a relatively productive person who should be able to make a note to come up with a good song for you.
0:38.0	Well, in my whole life, I have been pretty resistant to nicknames.
0:46.8	People have always tried to nickname me.
0:49.6	And it just doesn't stick.
0:51.6	Like, and I'm one of those people who is most mostly known as John
0:56.9	Roderick both both names you know what I mean like people just call me John
1:01.5	Roderick yeah and. And in college, oh, they threw
1:05.1	nicknames at me every which way and it just, they all bounced off. So I'm wondering whether
1:11.6	it's the same with theme music. I can't be themed. I have to
1:17.8	imagine that when you were in college you did a lot of nickname friendly
1:21.5	material.
1:23.0	Yeah, but everybody's always trying to like call me Sasquatch or, or, you know, I mean,
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