Ep. 593: "These Are the Days"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Self-help, Merlinmann, Thelongwinters, Johnroderick, Roderick, Winters, Long, The, Philosophy, Society & Culture, John, Merlin, Mann

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🗓️ 1 September 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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The Problem: John had one child.

(Recorded on Monday, September 1, 2025.)

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0:00.0	Hello.
0:06.0	Hi, John.
0:08.3	Hi, Merlin.
0:09.5	How's going?
0:10.7	Happy Labor Day.
0:11.9	Rabbit, Rabbit. Happy Labor Day.
0:13.8	Yeah.
0:15.3	Yeah, these are the days. These are the days.
0:18.2	These are the days. Do you do anything special on Labor Day?
0:22.0	Forgive me if I've asked you something like 14 times before.
0:25.1	Yeah.
0:26.0	I don't know.
0:27.2	I got your lights up.
0:28.5	Sent your cards out.
0:29.7	Yeah, I got my Labor Day lights up,
0:30.9	but I leave them up all year long.
0:32.9	Oh, I bet they hate that.
0:35.0	You know, what can they do?
0:37.8	Yeah.
0:39.6	Every time they can ever complain, you just loudly play the Internationale.
0:43.9	The International, that's right.
0:45.4	I march around.
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