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Roderick on the Line

Ep. 162: "April's Cream"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Johnroderick, Thelongwinters, Merlinmann, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2015

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

A panoply of bearded men.

The Problem: John’s not sitting on his gilded tortoise.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, Merlin. Hi, John. How are you? I'm doing great man. How's it going?

0:11.5

Pretty good.

0:13.0

Tell me something, John.

0:16.0

Wow, well, well,

0:17.0

uh, let's see, something John.

0:19.0

This morning...

0:20.0

Tell me that you like it.

0:21.0

I, uh, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, had some, I made some coffee.

0:25.0

And then this is, this will give you some sense of where I'm at.

0:29.0

I looked in the refrigerator and there was some cream in there and I grabbed it and I knew that there was I knew that there was a variety of sort of suspect creams in the in the refrigerator. Yeah, but it was also possible there had been a few people in and

0:45.2

out of the house it was also possible that somebody had bought a new cream a new

0:49.4

container of cream Izenberg uncertainty cream yep and so I cream. Yeah.

0:53.0

And so I grabbed the cream.

0:56.0

I looked at it.

0:57.0

I read the date.

0:58.0

And I said, oh, June 1, it's almost June.

1:01.0

Yeah.

1:02.0

Right around the corner. And I put the cream in the coffee and then I was walking around

1:07.5

sipping it and there were some floaters but you know what is come on I'm not a guy that's going to throw a cup of coffee away just for a couple of

1:14.6

floaters and then uh uh uh after about ten minutes I had one of those sort of you know

1:21.2

the slow delayed time time release, the OxyContin of thought, where I was like, June 1.

1:30.0

It's almost August. Oh God. And then I went and I looked at the I looked at it again to confirm that it was June and I opened it up and I smelled the cream and it was it did not smell

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