Ep. 102: "The Birkenstock Point"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2014
⏱️ 79 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. Hi John. Hi John. Hi, Berlin. How's it going? Good. Super good except... |
| 0:16.0 | Mm-hmm. That I thought I had more coffee than I have. |
| 0:22.0 | Oh, what do you mean the raw materials, the beans? |
| 0:25.0 | I had, you know, one of the things about having people stay over at your house |
| 0:30.0 | is that you're not any more in charge of any aspect of your stores. |
| 0:37.0 | You just got you got to just keep relearning that over and over. |
| 0:41.0 | You know that right? It's one of those things you know. |
| 0:45.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:47.0 | You know, when I had the game changers up here, at some point after after the game changers weekend I went you know I went into the |
| 0:57.6 | pantry thinking I had X number of certain items. |
| 1:03.0 | Mostly coffee, celtzer, cub and cigars. |
| 1:07.0 | Yeah, bacon. |
| 1:09.0 | And it was all gone. |
| 1:10.0 | It was like, it was like Locust had come through and I felt like Richard Gere out I should have just started a fire in my house and bring them all. |
| 1:20.0 | Like Elizabeth Taylor, you open your closet, expect to see all those beautiful gowns and |
| 1:24.0 | underpants and it's just just moths laughing at you. The moths are going. |
| 1:29.6 | So yeah so I flew a little bit close to the sun letting other people in my kitchen and now I went downstairs I was like time for a pot of coffee and what I found instead was a refrigerator full of ice cream. |
| 1:43.0 | Well, first of all, freezer full of ice cream. |
| 1:48.0 | A refrigerator full of ice cream would have been a disaster. |
| 1:50.0 | But you know, my, I went to a birthday party and then somebody got somebody got the idea |
| 1:58.5 | that the leftovers were going to go with me but only certain leftovers and what that ended up being was like four |
| 2:05.0 | gallons of ice cream is a good ice cream yeah it's fine like kid ice cream yeah no |
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