Ep. 40: "Status Butter"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2012
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Ep. 40: “Status Butter” - Roderick on the Line - Merlin Mann on Huffduffer
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| 0:00.0 | Roderick on the line is sponsored by Instapaper, the critically acclaimed app that saves web pages to read later. |
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| 0:14.2 | Hello. Hi, John. |
| 0:16.9 | Hi, Merlin. How are you? |
| 0:20.1 | I'm good. |
| 0:21.6 | You sound subdued. |
| 0:24.3 | Hmm. |
| 0:25.1 | Well, it's so early. |
| 0:28.7 | Hmm. |
| 0:29.3 | We're recording on a different day than usual, and it's exactly the same time we usually record, which is 20 minutes late. |
| 0:35.4 | Which is 20 minutes after we agreed to meet. |
| 0:38.4 | Yeah, but the fact that it's a different day makes it feel really early. |
| 0:41.9 | Do you do anything differently to prepare for the show for our recording? |
| 0:45.8 | Do you do any kind of stretches or have any special angles to you apply? |
| 0:51.2 | What I do to prepare for our show is I wake up earlier than I normally would. |
| 0:55.7 | That is the preparation that I have. |
| 0:57.2 | I'm so sorry. |
| 0:58.5 | No, no, it's perfectly fine. |
| 1:00.2 | I should wake up before noon. |
| 1:04.8 | Well, I should be a good father. |
| 1:08.3 | You're a great father. |
| 1:10.5 | You know what? |
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