Ep. 601: "The Milk Problem"

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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🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

The Problem: It felt like a future dream.

(Recorded on Monday, November 3, 2025.)

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0:00.0	Check, check.
0:08.2	Chew, chew, chew.
0:11.8	Hi, John.
0:12.5	How are you?
0:14.4	I'm a good man, how are you?
0:18.0	You know, can I be honest with you? Yeah, please do. Oh, my God. I'm a little bit chastened. Oh, no. No, what? John, you've got to be grateful to be humbled sometimes. Yeah, yeah. I've been having trouble. It doesn't matter. It's fine. It's fine. It's fine. It's fine. It's fine. It's fine. It's fine. It's fine. Okay. Yeah. I've been having trouble. It doesn't matter.
0:37.7	It's fine.
0:38.1	It's fine.
0:38.5	It's fine.
0:39.6	It's fine.
0:40.5	It's fine.
0:41.3	Okay.
0:41.3	Listen. Listen. It's Monday. Hi. Monday. Every Monday I, I, I, I, hi. Every Monday, boy, these headphones are weird. Every Monday I do at least at the very least a light cleaning of my desk
0:54.1	I clean everything with not everything I'm not weird
0:57.2	But I clean all the... Every Monday, I do at least at the very least a light cleaning of my desk.
1:01.0	I clean everything with, not everything, I'm not weird, but I clean all the gross stuff with 91% as a purple alcohol.
1:02.9	Same stuff you use for stress bomb plants.
1:04.2	Okay.
1:05.3	Okay.
1:05.9	All right. So it's not a cleaner.
1:07.9	You're just sterilizing it with alcohol.
1:10.0	Well, like the desk that I stole from my college, I clean that.
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