Ep. 418: "Ensuring Daddy's Slice"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2021
⏱️ 83 minutes
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The Problem: John knows the door knob.
(Recorded on Monday, March 22, 2021.)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. Hi, John. Hi, Merlin. How's it going? Well, you know, we had a, we had a little |
| 0:15.0 | plan, you and I, and then it just the time got away from me. What happened? Well, I mean, |
| 0:22.2 | you know, we were supposed to meet up at 11.30 and it's already 11.38. Oh, it's 11.39, |
| 0:28.5 | it happens. It happens. Sometimes you got to push and then you got to push inside the push. |
| 0:32.4 | Yeah, I have pushing the bush bush, you know what I'm saying? I had, I had chocolate cake for |
| 0:39.0 | breakfast. Really? Yeah, so it's going to be like birthday cake leftovers. Still, you still have |
| 0:47.0 | left. That was like Thursday. Here's the hack. Uh-huh. By the way, happy birthday again. Yeah, |
| 0:54.2 | thank you. Pass it on. Our kids have always been three years apart. That seems crazy to me. |
| 0:59.0 | It's nuts, right? Three years. It seems like, it seems like longer because your little girl was |
| 1:03.5 | already a teenager when my daughter was born. Yeah, it feels like it. Yeah. She was a sophisticated |
| 1:09.4 | young lady. Oh my god. She's, she's, she's a very sophisticated individual. Um, you had, |
| 1:15.1 | you had chocolate cake behind you. You had chocolate cake on, by my calculations, |
| 1:20.1 | sometime mid to late last week. There's still, there's a hack, you say. It's just for |
| 1:24.8 | ensuring, ensuring daddy's slice. Yeah. I'm listening. Dad's slice. And that is this. |
| 1:33.3 | My daughter has always had what I would consider the worst taste in cakes. |
| 1:39.1 | When she was little, she insisted every birthday she wanted a strawberry cake. |
| 1:44.8 | Uh-huh. And we tried everything we could. We were like strawberry, strawberry shortcake, |
| 1:50.1 | strawberry cheesecake. Nope. She wanted a strawberry flavored cake. She, she thinks. She thinks. |
| 1:58.6 | Thank you. I always like to say about this. I was like, sweetie, sweetie. You know, she's |
| 2:03.8 | four and you can't tell her anything. And I'm like, sweetie, listen, strawberry cake is the |
| 2:07.6 | worst of all cakes. She's like strawberry cake is what I want. And so for a while, we would get her |
| 2:13.3 | strawberry cupcakes. That's exactly what to do. It's exactly what you're trying this on. |
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