Ep. 267: "Vintage Mops"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2017
⏱️ 84 minutes
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The Problem: They bought Uncle Jack’s claim.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. |
| 0:05.9 | Hi, John. |
| 0:08.5 | Mervyn, man. |
| 0:09.9 | How's it going? |
| 0:12.2 | Good. How are you going? |
| 0:13.6 | I'm going pretty good. |
| 0:17.5 | Is that right? |
| 0:18.4 | Yeah. Yeah, it feels weird to do this on Thursday. |
| 0:37.8 | Yeah, it's weird, right? What do you normally do on Thursdays? Thursday's usually my, my admin day. Oh, you do admin? Well, you know, people have people who have jobs. They use that phrase, I'm working from home. Yeah? Yeah, so Thursdays. Oh, you know, well, for men, it usually means masturbation. |
| 0:46.7 | But this Thursday's my day when I usually take care of lots of little things that just kind of keep things running. |
| 0:49.2 | Do you do that? |
| 0:51.1 | I mean, do you take care of little things? |
| 0:59.7 | Or is it just the day that you set aside to take care of little things and then get distracted um well you know how it is it's an ongoing it's like painting the golden gate bridge right you're always painting the golden gate bridge you're never |
| 1:03.1 | done painting the golden gate bridge you know about this like there's always like basically |
| 1:07.9 | it takes a year the way it's scheduled is supposedly it takes a year |
| 1:11.3 | to paint the golden gate bridge and so basically you know you're just you're painting it you're painting it |
| 1:16.4 | you're never not painting the golden gate bridge because it always needs some painting i understand that |
| 1:21.3 | and i love that yeah it's like life as uh boat ownership so it could be stuff that's as simple as it could |
| 1:27.3 | be just like day-to-day stuff like i want to make sure we're caught up on dishes and pans because maybe you got a chicken pan that's been sitting around for a day or two. Chicken pan. You get a chicken pan sometimes. You just don't want to clean a chicken pan, right? You know what I mean? I'm never cleaned a chicken pan, but then I don't generate chicken pans. We generate chicken pants. We're a chicken family. |
| 1:45.8 | We do a lot of things in pants. |
| 1:48.3 | And then it could be stuff moving up the ladder. |
| 1:51.4 | You get into the equally boring stuff. |
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