Oct 8, 2026 · 1 hr 25 min · 14 segments
John's account's still locked, Merlin knows just enough to be angry, and Casey has opinions about which way his snacks should face. #### Links and Show Notes: John's account's still locked, Merlin…
Merlin MannHost
John SiracusaHost
We were talking about, um, huh, having your kids not live with you anymore, empty nest, if you like.
And we were talking about, uh, an interesting phenomenon we'd noted, which is that there are people in both of our homes whose first instinct after crying after the kid left was to go and clean their room.
Zebras ask the musical question, who's behind the door? You know, you had to go in and do all of that.
The phrase I knew that I knew, and I couldn't touch it, and I think I said something dumb instead.
The phrase I was looking for for a lame-ass cleanup of a room that is mainly about cleaning off surfaces, it's a term I learned from John Roderick, and I think it comes from his sister, Susan.
I was, I was concatenating it, or I was confusing it with Michael Lopp's term Italian run-through.
We were talking about, um, huh, having your kids not live with you anymore, empty nest, if you like.
And we were talking about, uh, an interesting phenomenon we'd noted, which is that there are people in both of our homes whose first instinct after crying after the kid left was to go and clean their room.
Zebras ask the musical question, who's behind the door? You know, you had to go in and do all of that.
The phrase I knew that I knew, and I couldn't touch it, and I think I said something dumb instead.
The phrase I was looking for for a lame-ass cleanup of a room that is mainly about cleaning off surfaces, it's a term I learned from John Roderick, and I think it comes from his sister, Susan.
I was, I was concatenating it, or I was confusing it with Michael Lopp's term Italian run-through.
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