Ep. 363: "Butler of Sadness"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2019
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
On Chasing the Right “Zero” | kung fu grippe
The Problem: An emotional response is not required.
(Recorded on Monday, December 2, 2019.)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. Hi John. |
| 0:07.0 | Hi John. |
| 0:08.0 | Oh, hello, Merlin. |
| 0:09.0 | How's it going? |
| 0:11.0 | Oh, hello, Merlin. |
| 0:12.0 | Hmm. Well, it's early. |
| 0:15.0 | when it's early. |
| 0:18.0 | When did you get up? |
| 0:19.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:20.0 | Oh, I got up a couple of hours ago because of this whole daughter thing. |
| 0:26.7 | Situation, yeah. |
| 0:28.2 | Yeah. And then I, who looked at the internet, I muted a guy and posted something on Instagram. |
| 0:38.5 | You know, it did the important work of the day. |
| 0:40.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:41.4 | You gotta get connected. got to stay connected. It's cyber Monday Marlin. Oh God you're right. I mean you send out my cards. Yeah I know cyber Monday. But yeah yeah I muted a guy guy he didn't even really do that he didn't really do do anything bad. He just he just he included me he at included me on a tweet that wasn't meant for me. It was or no it was definitely meant for me, but it was just like a mild criticism of me. |
| 1:11.6 | That's like, That's enough. |
| 1:13.0 | That's funny. |
| 1:14.0 | Like, yeah. |
| 1:15.0 | I was like, he knows what he did. |
| 1:16.0 | Muted. |
| 1:17.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:18.0 | Yeah. |
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