Ep. 07: "The Compulsive Sherry Algorithm"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2011
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Ep. 07: “The Compulsive Sherry Algorithm” - Roderick on the Line - Merlin Mann on Huffduffer
The Problems: Sidling up to German Sex Tourists; Elephant 6 bands decamping to a new porch; more on John’s uncontrollable steaming; almost closing the thread on the Bruce Vilanch problem; FDA’s daily requirement of Femineseum; why John treasures his collection of Braille Playboys; pitching the pilot for DecencyBusters; a pledge of index cards to help deflect John’s photons; the inexcusable lack of a decent Grand Guignol magazine; the long menarche that preceded our heavy internet period; John’s studied reluctance to buying young boys; Merlin’s reflections on accepting a strong man’s syllabus; why so few teens today offer to make candy penis bang bang; grave concern for the Teutonic hitting-and-poo thing; why you never fuck with Leonard Bernstein; Merlin’s culpability for Florida’s many orphan towel-babies; how Harold Ramis’ heart broke and broke; why John’s compound may be neither decadent nor depraved; chronicling our mass exodus from wool; knowing when your sword deserves its own bathrobe; strategies for rebooting John’s complex legacy; the spelling error that created a frottage industry; Wilde’s femoral focus on rentboy stickling; some benefits of packing an improbably large crossbow; the surprising trouble with faking The Loco Eyes; the tactical defense strategy of misquoting Larry Wall; finding the proper cave for Cartoon Billy Barty; flying a rainbow flag of convenience; why every arsenal should make room for a mildly inconvenient rose bush; the uncanny effectiveness of John’s splintered pickets; and, finally learning what John’s been hiding behind that steel-reinforced door.
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Roderick on the Line Ep. 07 Show Notes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. |
| 0:07.0 | Hi John, how are you? |
| 0:09.0 | Hi John, how are you? Hi, Merlin, man. Uh... Are you well? Merman. |
| 0:13.0 | What was my song for you? |
| 0:17.0 | Oh yeah, do you want to ride on my John Rott |
| 0:20.0 | or Rick? I got to update that. |
| 0:22.0 | If you like it, then you should put John, I got nothing. |
| 0:26.0 | We should have somebody record versions of those songs, and in fact I think, given what I've discovered |
| 0:31.0 | from having a podcast with you, all I need to do is suggest that |
| 0:35.5 | and by the time tomorrow rolls around there will be two studio recordings of those songs. |
| 0:42.4 | Berlin man say don't see the of those songs. Berlin, man. |
| 0:44.0 | So you can see the power, the power of the |
| 0:47.1 | podcasts and social media writ large. |
| 0:51.0 | Social media. |
| 0:52.0 | That's exactly, it's exactly right, social media. Social media. That's exactly right. Social media. Social media. Yeah, I have become very enamored with social media because I understand now something about it that I didn't used to do you remember when I do remember when I called you on the phone this is back when I used the phone and I said Merlin can you tell me why the long winters would need a website? |
| 1:14.3 | And you you laughed and laughed you laughed like you're laughing now. |
| 1:20.0 | That's like that's like Ben Franklin like trying to tell Ben Franklin why he might want an |
| 1:24.8 | iPhone 4S instead of an iPhone 4. There's a lot of technological |
| 1:28.8 | dependencies that we would have to unpack. And I'm imagining you like reading off a card, you've got like reading glasses on the end of your nose. |
| 1:36.4 | Why would I need a website? Am I pronouncing that correctly? But you did, you unpacked it for me over the course of many many many long hours of |
| 1:46.7 | scheduling meetings to talk about it but then we would have to reschedule. But eventually you did explain why we |
| 1:54.2 | why we needed a website and now fast forward several years and here I am a |
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