Ep. 430: "PILF Pants"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2021
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
The Problem: John is the outlier.
(Recorded on Monday, July 5, 2021.)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello? |
| 0:06.8 | Hi, John. |
| 0:08.7 | Hi, Merlin. |
| 0:10.2 | How's going? |
| 0:11.6 | Good. |
| 0:12.2 | I just noticed that our entire Skype chat history is me saying beep, lowercase B. |
| 0:20.5 | I don't know the last time you replied. It's just beep, beep, beep, beep. |
| 0:24.9 | Yeah, the reply is we start the show. That's right. But you know, you bring up an interesting point, |
| 0:29.8 | you know, context. Without context, that probably doesn't make a ton of sense. Right. If somebody, |
| 0:34.8 | if there was an FBI team that was going through my stuff. When there's an FBI team. Uh-huh. And they're like, what's this relationship with Merlin Man? And they go into the Skype chat and they're like, what the? Right. And you just respond. You say, they ask you a question, you say, beep. Beep. Do with that what you will. Anytime they mention your name, I'll just say beep. |
| 0:56.8 | I'll be pretty forthcoming about everything else. |
| 1:00.1 | You're the Merlin Manchering and candidates. |
| 1:04.2 | Beep. |
| 1:05.7 | All right. |
| 1:07.7 | That's the end of the show. |
| 1:08.9 | No, we're done. |
| 1:09.8 | That's it. |
| 1:10.2 | We've got nowhere else to go |
| 1:11.7 | i'm not really awake yet it's uh it's it's monday july 5th and i'm not really awake yet |
| 1:16.8 | i'm not very awake either and i'm also a little it's weird because it's 85 degrees but i'm a |
| 1:22.9 | little chilly you know that thing when you're like i bet your home is part Pardon my saying. I bet your homeostasis is a mess right now. |
| 1:30.3 | Huh. |
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