Ep. 338: "Jelisa and Robert Saudi"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2019
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
The Problem: John couldn’t go to the macaroni and cheese store.
(Recorded on Monday, May 13, 2019.)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. Hi, John. I didn't see you there. How are you? Hi, John. |
| 0:07.0 | Oh, hey, Merlin. Oh, hi, John. I didn't see you there. How are you? |
| 0:12.0 | Hi. Hey, uh, I've been meaning to call you. Oh, we're about do. Yeah, I just, boy, I've been busy. It's like me and baths every week, whether I need it or not. Is that right? |
| 0:23.0 | That's my grandma used to say. |
| 0:25.0 | She had a lot of very memorable stuff. |
| 0:26.0 | She's a funny lady. |
| 0:27.0 | Wonder what the poor people are doing. |
| 0:28.0 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:30.0 | You say that because the joke is, like you don't have a lot of |
| 0:32.5 | dough but maybe you go out to like you know KFC or whatever say I wonder what the |
| 0:36.3 | poor people are doing what are the poor people doing my grandmother used to say |
| 0:39.3 | things to my dad that I can't repeat oh no oh, oh see she was from Kentucky. Yeah, we had a lot of things that can't be repeated. Yeah, it was all in order to get his |
| 0:49.6 | Goat. You wouldn't think my dad had a lot of goats, but he did and his mother could really get to him. |
| 0:55.2 | Oh, they're so good at that, aren't they? They are. All this in heaven too. |
| 0:59.2 | You know, I was just thinking, do you know who Max Roser is? |
| 1:04.0 | Not the Jazz drummer or the Cards Against Humanity guy. |
| 1:08.0 | I'm going to say, no, I don't. |
| 1:09.0 | Max Roser is a statistician. |
| 1:13.0 | I love statistics. |
| 1:15.0 | Yeah, well Max Roser is a statistician. |
| 1:17.0 | Oh, oh, hang on, I'm sorry, yes, I think actually I heard about this I want want to say from Max Tempkin. I know about |
| 1:24.7 | Tell me about Max Roser. |
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