Ep. 584: "Adult Bangs"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
The Problem: Cynical always sounds smart.
(Recorded on Monday, June 23, 2025.)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello? |
| 0:06.3 | Hi, John. |
| 0:08.5 | Hi, Merlin. |
| 0:09.6 | How's it going? |
| 0:11.1 | Mm. |
| 0:12.5 | I just started the dishwasher. |
| 0:14.5 | No. |
| 0:15.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:16.2 | It's okay. |
| 0:16.7 | Are you worried you'll make noise? |
| 0:18.7 | It's going to make a little noise. |
| 0:20.1 | It's not terrible, but it's not what I normally would do. |
| 0:24.2 | I don't like to speak in software terms, but I think of that as a feature, not a bug. |
| 0:28.4 | Oh, okay. |
| 0:29.4 | Like when you can hear people outside arguing about their social life or you can hear the streetcar or one of my favorites in the morning, |
| 0:37.0 | you can hear the little kids from the preschool my favorites in the morning you can hear the little |
| 0:37.6 | kids from the preschool walking around yeah i think that's a that's a gift bless their hearts |
| 0:44.2 | yeah i i finally saw my leafblower neighbor oh just yesterday i heard them out there playing |
| 0:50.5 | and i actually like put on my shoes and went outside and they were there in |
| 0:56.0 | the driveway and we had a marvelous greeting and they had some friends over and then uh then you know |
| 1:03.2 | my neighbor my my my pal turned to his friends and said yeah he thinks my leafblower's too loud |
| 1:09.7 | and I hadn't seen him in like a year. |
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