Ep. 437: "The First Betrayal of Kevin"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2021
⏱️ 72 minutes
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The Problem: Everything defaults to your Mom.
(Recorded on Monday, September 6, 2021.)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello? |
| 0:06.4 | Hi, John. |
| 0:07.9 | Oh, hi, Merlin. |
| 0:11.1 | Happy Labor Day. |
| 0:12.5 | Oh, wow, it is Labor Day. |
| 0:14.5 | To all who celebrate. |
| 0:16.5 | Hoof, Labor Day. |
| 0:18.2 | Boy, I've been waiting for it. |
| 0:19.3 | You good? |
| 0:19.6 | You good? |
| 0:21.3 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I've been coughing for it. You good? You good? Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 0:22.7 | I mean, I've been coughing a lot this morning, |
| 0:24.2 | but I think it might have something to do with the fact that I had a breakfast of M&M's. |
| 0:28.9 | And my body recoils when I do a thing like that. |
| 0:35.0 | It just... |
| 0:35.5 | Are they paired with anything besides coffee or was just raw M&Ms? |
| 0:39.3 | No, it was... |
| 0:40.3 | They were paired with coffee, but what I did... |
| 0:41.3 | I was at the grocery store. |
| 0:43.3 | It was late at night and they had one of those, you know, point of purchase enticements. |
| 0:49.3 | It wasn't right there with the gum and the... |
| 0:52.3 | Pult magazines. |
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