Ep. 619: "Dad Island"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2026
⏱️ 82 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. Hello, John. How are you? Oh, hi there, Marilyn. Oh, my goodness. Jesus. Oh, dear. My app got updated. My map got updated. Your nap got updated? Oh, man. Mine certainly did. This is where I am now. I'm very tired. And my app got updated. Things are in different places. And that's frustrating me. But that's not interesting to our listeners, John. Oh, I think it is. I think they can relate to it because their apps got updated. Appdated. And they don't know where anything is. Yeah. Yeah. Did you know what? I got a couple of notices today that my terms of service had been updated. Oh, really? Do you remember what that was about, which? Apogee. Apogee updated their terms of service. Oh, yeah. Because of woke. Yeah, just probably, probably. |
| 0:55.2 | Yeah, they just had to update some of the wokeness of their software. |
| 0:59.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:00.1 | And that was great. |
| 1:01.1 | That was nice to read. |
| 1:02.5 | You know, every time you get a thing like that, it just kind of warms the heart. |
| 1:07.4 | I think it's nice that they're still thinking about you. |
| 1:10.3 | I got a recall notice for something that we had purchased for our infant child at Target in 2008. |
| 1:18.2 | And I thought that was a good follow-up. |
| 1:20.9 | It is kind of funny once you're out the game, because when you're a parent person getting those kinds of things, |
| 1:25.4 | and it's like, oh, no, there's unknown amounts of PTFA in this specific nipple, your child date, or whatever, you're like, ah, but then you get something, once you get a little distance from it, they sometimes seem no less crazy where it's like the, I guess it's better than when we were kids, where it's like like the vertical bars of this crib were exactly the |
| 1:45.4 | perfect size for every infant to die yeah i mean i don't think car seats they scrape lead out anymore |
| 1:54.0 | oh don't get me started on lead my friend oh lead oh lead yeah let's a big deal. It's a big, I'm sorry, I'm adjusting my levels. |
| 2:03.3 | Leds a bigger deal than anybody ever thought. |
| 2:05.6 | I also think there's still lots of room for innovation with car seats. |
| 2:08.7 | Like, I'm not going to do jokes about it because, like, you know, I'm not a stand-up comedian, but honestly, every, there's almost every piece of the child safety seat is hostile to me in particular |
| 2:21.1 | historically did you find a lot of the thing you got to the hole you got to put your hand in |
| 2:27.2 | to do the seat belt and it's got it's got a literal razor plate on so bad so bad what are you |
| 2:32.6 | going to say oh did you find a lot of food in the car seat? |
| 2:35.5 | Because I sure did. |
| 2:36.8 | My kid really liked to put food in every little crack and crevice. |
| 2:42.5 | Oh, like a kind of squirling behavior. |
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