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Roderick on the Line

Ep. 437: "The First Betrayal of Kevin"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Thelongwinters, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Merlinmann, Johnroderick

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Everything's exciting when it first happens.

The Problem: Everything defaults to your Mom.

(Recorded on Monday, September 6, 2021.)

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0:00.0

Hello. Hi, John. Oh, I'm Merlin. Happy Labor Day. Oh, wow, it is Labor Day.

0:14.4

Tall tall who celebrate. Hoof, Labor Day. Boy, good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I've been

0:23.1

coughing a lot this morning, but I think it might have something to do with the fact that

0:26.6

I had breakfast to have an M's. And my body, my body recoils when I, when I do a thing like

0:33.4

that. It just, it paired with anything besides coffee. It was just raw M&Ms. No, it was, they're

0:40.0

paired with coffee, but what I did, I was at the grocery store. It was late at night. And

0:45.3

they had one of those, you know, point of purchase enticements. It wasn't right there with

0:51.3

the gum and the, and the pulp magazines. It was across from the, it was where you would

0:56.8

wait if you were waiting. And they were these large, that pre-area end cap that it's sometimes

1:02.9

is to sunny water. Sometimes it's a lace family chip products. Yeah, yeah, it'll be dejornos

1:08.8

pizza up here. Sometimes it'll be tilumook ice cream. And in this case, it was too large,

1:14.9

it was large size bags. Oh, like you're talking about a sharing, sharing size. Yeah, sharing size,

1:19.8

family size. How about some sharing size gummy bears this weekend? Yeah, that's what it was,

1:24.7

sharing size. And they had peanut M&Ms. You know, don't worry, you're not, you're not an

1:30.0

unlovable hog. No, you have friends and you love to share. You love to share. You love

1:34.0

these to share. Even if you're just sharing it with yourself, it is a sharing. Well, I mean,

1:39.0

you know, help begins at home. Well, so they, they had the, they had the peanut M&Ms, the,

1:44.4

the best of the M&Ms, the best of the M&M family. Oh, wow. And, and then they had the new peanut

1:51.2

butter kind. And I thought, you know, I like to mix things. I like to. It looks a little bit like a

1:56.8

Reese PC, but it's got a crunchy outside. That's exactly right. Oh, God. It's got a little,

2:01.5

a little bit of peanut butter flavoring inside. Peanut butter, what would it be called, paste?

2:05.6

Slurry. A, a Nutella of peanut butter. Uh-huh. But not Hossel news. Hossel news, huh? Okay.

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