Ep. 430: "PILF Pants"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2021
⏱️ 75 minutes
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The Problem: John is the outlier.
(Recorded on Monday, July 5, 2021.)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hi John I'm Merlin. How's it going? Good. I just noticed that our entire Skype chat |
| 0:15.8 | history is me saying beep lowercase B. I don't know the last time you replied. It's just |
| 0:23.0 | beep beep beep beep. Yeah, the reply is we start the show. That's right. But you know |
| 0:28.1 | you bring up an interesting point, you know context. Without context, that probably doesn't make |
| 0:32.8 | a ton of sense. Right. If somebody, if there was an FBI team that was that was going through |
| 0:38.0 | my stuff, when there's an FBI team, and they're like, what's this relationship with Merlin |
| 0:44.0 | man? And they go into the Skype chat and they're like, what the? Right. And you just respond, |
| 0:48.1 | you say it with a ask your question, you say beep. Beep. Do with that what you will. Any |
| 0:54.3 | time they mentioned your name, I'll just say beep. I'll be I'll be pretty forthcoming |
| 0:58.6 | about everything else. Let's get back to Merlin. You're the Merlin Manchuring and Candidates. |
| 1:04.5 | Beep. All right. That's the end of the show. No, we're doing. That's it. That's the |
| 1:10.8 | way I know where else to go. I'm not really awake yet. It's it's Monday, July 5th. And |
| 1:15.0 | I'm not really awake yet. I'm not very awake either. And I'm also a little it's weird |
| 1:21.2 | because it's 85 degrees, but I'm a little chilly. You know, that thing when you're like, |
| 1:25.1 | I bet your home is part of my saying, I bet your homeostasis is a mess right now. Huh. |
| 1:31.1 | I bet the home, but you know what? I'm going to take a step further. I think I bet the |
| 1:33.9 | homeostasis of your world is crazy right now. You're saying the homeostasis of my world |
| 1:40.1 | is crazy right now. Listen, I'm not, I'm not assigned right now. Yeah. But I mean, homeostasis, |
| 1:48.4 | like inertia for things, right? It has you got to be a certain way to get a certain way. |
| 1:54.3 | We didn't record last week because I, if memory serves, it was over 100 degrees in the |
| 1:58.8 | room in which you would be recording the program. A lot, a lot over. Yeah. Yeah. But I mean, |
| 2:04.3 | like that's going to have effects on, I don't know, the familiarity of your house and |
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