Roderick on the Line (Merlin Mann)

The Problem: John has a list of people that he feels bad for.

(Recorded on Monday, February 20, 2023.)

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The Problem: John’s daughter requested a push.

(Recorded on Monday, March 6, 2023.)

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The Problem: John was seeing all the people in their church clothes.

(Recorded on Monday, March 13, 2023.)

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The Problem: John will follow you down a manhole.

(Recorded on Monday, March 20, 2023.)

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The Problem: John’s liver was somewhere else.

(Recorded on Monday, April 3, 2023.)

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The Problem: It was Picture Day.

(Recorded on Monday, April 10, 2023.)

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The Problem: Ken is a punner.

(Recorded on Monday, April 17, 2023.)

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The Problem: It was a box of props that John brought.

(Recorded on Monday, April 24, 2023.)

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The Problem: John’s not allowed to go to Egypt without his kid.

(Recorded on Monday, May 1, 2023)

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The Problem: They did not approve of each other.

(Recorded on Monday, May 22, 2023.)

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The Problem: You have to understand what a Kundalini is.

(Recorded on Monday, May 29, 2023.)

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The Problem: It’s nice to turn things down.

(Recorded on Monday, June 12, 2023.)

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The Problem: John is a different kind of dog.

(Recorded on Monday, June 19, 2023.)

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The Problem: John must have accomplished something wind chimes.

(Recorded on Monday, June 26, 2023.)

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The Problem: John forgot to get an end table.

(Recorded on Monday, July 10, 2023.)

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The Problem: John only sees what he’s shown.

(Recorded on Monday, July 17, 2023.)

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The Problem: We’re all eating at the same cereal bar.

(Recorded on Monday, July 24, 2023.)

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The Problem: They don’t have their Coca-Cola license.

(Recorded on Monday, July 31, 2023.)

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The Problem: John came up in airplanes.

(Recorded on Monday, August 7, 2023.)

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The Problem: Merlin fell on his keys.

(Recorded on Monday, August 21, 2023.)

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The Problem: Pimples are an opportunity.

(Recorded on Monday, August 28, 2023.)

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The Problem: None of the hats fit John.

(Recorded on Monday, September 11, 2023.)

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The Problem: John is all out of knee.

(Recorded on Monday, September 18, 2023.)

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The Problem: Thought is the death of sin.

(Recorded on Monday, October 2, 2023.)

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The Problem: That ride costs extra.

(Recorded on Monday, October 16, 2023.)

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The Problem: There should be a button that just solves problems in general.

(Recorded on Monday, October 23, 2023.)

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The Problem: John is at peak “Fuck You.”

(Recorded on Monday, November 6, 2023.)

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The Problem: Oh, no. Not one of these Daddy roads.

(Recorded on Monday, November 20, 2023.)

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The Problem: John doesn’t have the ability to call krampuses down upon people.

(Recorded on Monday, December 11, 2023.)

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The Problem: John took the class wrong.

(Recorded on Monday, December 18, 2023.)

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The Problem: Don’t you have a wife?

(Recorded on Monday, January 1, 2024.)

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The Problem: John gets a million pitches from people.

(Recorded on Monday, January 8, 2024.)

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The Problem: John is always seeing the light across the water.

(Recorded on Monday, January 15, 2024.)

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The Problem: These British musicians don’t respect their culture.

(Recorded on Monday, January 22, 2024.)

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The Problem: John’s mom is the dark part of the sunglasses.

(Recorded on Monday, February 5, 2024.)

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The Problem: John painted the floor blue.

(Recorded on Monday, February 12, 2024.)

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The Problem: The folding table is its own problem.

(Recorded on Monday, February 19, 2024.)

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The Problem: Don’t fuck with a thing that you see.

(Recorded on Monday, February 26, 2024.)

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The Problem: John forgot his phone.

(Recorded on Monday, March 11, 2024.)

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The Problem: We’re not at the time of yarn yet.

(Recorded on Monday, March 18, 2024.)

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The Problem: John wiggled his butt.

(Recorded on Monday, March 25, 2024.)

The Problem: John was in his Easter pinks.

(Recorded on Monday, April 1, 2024.)

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The Problem: John turned into a sack of flour.

(Recorded on Monday, April 15, 2024.)

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The Problem: What are you drinking with that American about?

(Recorded on Monday, April 22, 2024.)

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The Problem: Maybe a better term is “leveraged insophistication.”

(Recorded on Monday, May 6, 2024.)

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The Problem: The cube is always moving through time.

(Recorded on Monday, May 13, 2024.)

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The Problem: The knives are too organized.

(Recorded on Saturday, May 20, 2024)

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The Problem: The first problem is ordinal.

(Recorded on Monday, May 27, 2024.)

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The Problem: Reckoning cost $8.69.

(Recorded on Monday, June 3, 2024.)

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The Problem: They were grandfathered into America.

(Recorded on Monday, June 10, 2024.)

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The Problem: John’s barrage is insane.

(Recorded on Monday, June 17, 2024.)

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The Problem: John was a terrible edgelord.

(Recorded on Monday, June 24, 2024.)

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The Problem: John got treated like a weed.

(Recorded on Monday, July 1, 2024.)

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The Problem: Ken can’t be the queen bee every day.

(Recorded on Monday, July 8, 2024.)

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The Problem: Their clam is John’s clam.

(Recorded on Monday, July 15, 2024.)

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The Problem: She was recognizing that John was corporeal.

(Recorded on Monday, July 22, 2024.)

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The Problem: John doesn’t usually have sympathetic issues.

(Recorded on Monday, July 29, 2024.)

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The Problem: There’s a miracle chord that doesn’t exist.

(Recorded on Monday, August 5, 2024.)

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The Problem: Maybe he’s saving a life.

(Recorded on Monday, August 12, 2024.)

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The Problem: These are sex clothes.

(Recorded on Monday, August 19, 2024.)

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The Problem: The nearest charging station is in Fort Greene.

(Recorded on Monday, August 26, 2024.)

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The Problem: John is sitting crisscross applesauce on a cloud.

(Recorded on Monday, September 9, 2024.)

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The Problem: Where’s John’s platinum record?

(Recorded on Monday, September 16, 2024.)

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The Problem: Let the collaboration begin.

(Recorded on Monday, September 23, 2024.)

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The Problem: John is offeroni.

(Recorded on Monday, October 7, 2024.)

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The Problem: If you buy it, you buy it.

(Recorded on Monday, October 14, 2024.)

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The Problem: John’s never had one doughnut of anything.

(Recorded on Monday, October 21, 2024.)

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The Problem: John wanted to buy some holds.

(Recorded on Monday, November 4, 2024.)

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The Problem: None of them has produced any bad.

Merlin wants to play in this band.

(Recorded on Monday, November 11, 2024.)

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The Problem: There are tickets plus two kinds of passes.

(Recorded on Monday, November 18, 2024.)

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The Problem: John is a highly sensitive person.

(Recorded on Monday, November 25, 2024.)

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The Problem: He slipped in slapping.

(Recorded on Monday, December 2, 2024.)

The Problem: John was a problem for everybody.

(Recorded on Monday, December 9, 2024.)

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The Problem: The problem is there are two problems.

(Recorded on Monday, December 16, 2024.)

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The Problem: Nobody wants to be the shoe.

(Recorded on Monday, December 30, 2024.)

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From listener Chris Ballew:

I have heard every single episode of RotL and for almost as long as I have been listening to it I’ve been daydreaming about making a little mash up cut and paste audio bit out of some of a random selection of opening moments of the podcast. I woke up one day and was suddenly seized my motivation, and made this little slice of sound as a love letter to my virtual and real life friends, John and Merlin.

My God, Chris. Thank you, thank you.

The Problem: Susan has taken care of all of these top level problems.

(Recorded on Monday, January 6, 2025.)

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The Problem: John ate the minnows for two weeks.

(Recorded on Monday, January 13, 2025.)

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