Ep. 411: "The Anxiety Family"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2021
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
The Problem: It’s the trim that belongs to the room.
(Recorded on Monday, February 1, 2021.)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello? |
| 0:06.7 | Hi, John. |
| 0:08.3 | Hi, Merlin. |
| 0:09.6 | How's it going? |
| 0:11.7 | Oh. |
| 0:13.0 | Rabbit rabbit. |
| 0:16.1 | Rabbit. Rabbit. |
| 0:17.5 | It's the first of the month. You got to say rabbit rabbit. |
| 0:20.6 | Asi, assy. Maso menos. Yeah, mas. It's the first of the month. You got to say rabbit rabbit. Asi, assi. Massiminos. Yeah, Masomanos. Apparently, Asi is Spain and Masa Manus is Mexico. Oh. Cancelaw Significa Day, rabbit, rabbit. Rabbit, rabbit. I don't know the significance of it either. I don't know why you say it first of the month. it's why we cut the ends off the roast. You know what I mean? It's one of those things we've just always known. You know the story? You cut the ends off the roast? Story goes, I learned about this from a friend of the show, John Syracusa, and it describes a certain kind of cargo cult thinking, which is somebody says, hey mom, why do we always cut the ends off the roast |
| 0:55.2 | before we cook it? And, and the, well, it doesn't have to be a mom. Sure. You know, it could be a person that's cooking the roast. Bearded dragon. The bearded dragon says, well, my mom always cut the ends off the roast. I see. And you can guess how this goes. You can keep going all the way up and up and up, until great grandmother, who luckily got vaccinated, says, well, we just cut the ends off the roast to make |
| 1:15.1 | fit in the pan we had. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, that's why we cut the ends off the roast. |
| 1:20.7 | Isn't that meaningful? It seems meaningful. That's why we say rabbit, rabbit, cut the ends off |
| 1:24.5 | the rabbit. We say rabbit because that's how big the pan was. |
| 1:29.2 | When we were growing up. |
| 1:30.6 | Yeah, I think it has a certain, a certain, you know, Jewish-American quality to it. |
| 1:35.9 | Rabbit, Rabbit. |
| 1:36.8 | Rabbit, rabbit. |
| 1:37.5 | Anyways, I'm just ticking around. |
| 1:39.3 | That's why I'm late. |
| 1:39.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:40.3 | Yeah, no, no, dicking around is good. |
| 1:42.5 | I don't have the luxury to dick around anymore, Merlin. |
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