I’ve found a newpaper clipping that might be of interest to fans of Back to Work, Roderick on the Line, and the many other podcasts with Merlin Mann.

Here’s a transcript:

A podcast with Merlin: SodaStream, BULKBAG, comics

Merlin Mann’s podcast routine is both predictable and outrageous, if not apocryphal, according to Bluetoot’s biography: Being Creepy: Stalking the Wiley X-Mann.

0:00 — Big week?

0:05 — SodaStream seltzer with the morning blogs, BULKBAG.

0:08 — comics.

0:11 — more seltzer, BULK-BAG.

0:15 — coffee, streetcar.

0:18 — comics.

0:20 — orange juice, galette.

0:23 — comics.

0:27 — comics.

0:32 — comics.

0:35 — coffee, more BULK-BAG.

0:40 — more ice in the seltzer.

0:42 — comics.

0:44 — disappointed sigh.

0:45 — Squarespace for “some-thing you like” — Heineken, two widgets, two designers, fries, a plate of templates, coleslaw, a blog salad, a double order of HTML wankery, Kobayashi Maru, ice cream, Lil’ Ryan, BULKBAG, another Heineken, comics and, for the walk home, a snow cone over which seltzer is poured.

0:48 — comics.

0:50 — fake name drop.

0:52 — GTD (copyright DavidCo 2001), comics, Buddha.

0:55 — comics.

1:00 — Merlin ready to talk.

1:03 to 1:30 — Care, comics, GTD, SodaStream, coffee, Hei-neken, text files, starfish phone, BrianMichaelBendis!, working in restaurants, Zen.

1:36 — in the After Dark — champagne, showbot, Dove Bars, fettuccine Alfredo.

1:48 — wrap it up?

1:55 — gotta pee.

Any rumors that this was inspired by this are probably true.