Ep. 284: "You're Grass Now"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2018
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
The Problem: A loaves and fishes type situation.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, John. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello, Berlin. |
| 0:08.0 | How's it going? |
| 0:09.8 | Pretty well. |
| 0:12.6 | You know, just getting my shit together. |
| 0:15.4 | Oh. |
| 0:17.9 | What have you been doing this morning? |
| 0:20.6 | You know, I don't do very much in the mornings, let's be honest. |
| 0:24.0 | Oh, I don't believe that. |
| 0:26.8 | You've got to be doing something. |
| 0:28.2 | You're awake. |
| 0:29.0 | I mean, I putter around. |
| 0:30.2 | I'm barely awake. |
| 0:33.0 | Put, putt, putt, you know, on days, you know, because of, because I live in a, not like you in a conventionally structured family, but in an unconstructed, unconstructed family, I don't have to get my daughter up to school every morning. |
| 0:49.4 | Only sometimes. |
| 0:52.0 | So other times I just, I just lay in bed and just stare up at the little |
| 0:56.8 | reflective moons that I have on the ceiling of my room. I don't really have that on my room. |
| 1:03.2 | Are you just tired or are you thinking? I'm thinking thinking thinking deep thoughts. |
| 1:07.6 | Yeah. Yeah. It's hard to get a kid to school. I know we've talked about it before. Well, I talk about it every day. Sox. I just, socks. There's never a day where socks are not a thing that you need to wear. You need to find socks. I just put coffee on my shirt. I'm sorry. It's all right. It was clean for 15 minutes. Hey. |
| 1:28.6 | 15 minutes. I put it on. I was like, this is a nice shirt. Should I wear this shirt today? |
| 1:32.4 | Yeah. What the hell? What am I saving it for? Am I saving it for some wedding or something? |
| 1:36.1 | I don't want to talk to death on the kid stuff. I know it's boring. |
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