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Roderick on the Line

Ep. 318: "The Best Chicken"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Thelongwinters, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Merlinmann, Johnroderick

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2018

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Ten Second Job.

The Problem: John got the side-eye.


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0:00.0

Hello. Hi John. Hi John. Hi, Merlin. Happy New Year. It is almost. You know. the first thing I had this morning was a spoonful of chocolate

0:17.6

sauce. Oh, like out of a squirty bottle? It was out of a squirty bottle. I got to the end of a

0:25.9

squirty bottle of chocolate last night and then I looked and realized that I had

0:31.0

another empty bottle of squirty chocolate sitting next to it and I said,

0:36.2

you know, I kept that second one because I was going to try and get the chocolate out.

0:41.9

So I got a little tray and I turned the bottles upside down to get the chocolate to drip out during the night.

0:51.0

Okay. I woke up this morning, the da-a-na-na-m-hmm, and the chocolate had, yeah, dripped out, but not, it's not like it was clean.

1:03.0

Hmm.

1:04.0

Not like the chocolate at all dripped out.

1:07.0

There was still lots in there.

1:08.0

I got a little teeny spoon and I started to try and work the chocolate out.

1:14.0

You did all this this morning.

1:16.0

Yeah, and you know, this is what the acknowledgement that I set my alarm for 945.

1:22.0

Wow, wow, wow, wow.

1:23.6

So then I don't know why I hadn't thought of this.

1:26.8

You know, usually the reason I don't do this is I don't like to microwave plastic.

1:31.8

This is just, it's one of those was I wasn't going to say but my life

1:35.0

hack would be as you know I'm a master of the microwave and in that case you're not

1:39.7

looking to molten a fai your chocolates you just want it to be loose.

1:47.0

I'd

1:48.0

so I that for me that's a 10 second job.

1:51.0

Yeah and that's and I was sitting there and I was thinking what would

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