Ep. 12: "Cold-Calling the Jewess"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2011
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Roderick on the Line - Ep. 12: “Cold-Calling the Jewess” on Huffduffer
The Problems: Merlin’s sniffly allergies (sorry); directions for the connoisseur of keyboard-oriented music; your hosts’s chronic and irreconcilable Sloan disconnect; that time when Tiny Tim wheeled over to The Magazine Shoppe with John’s Radiohead; the dynamics of recording in a rented castle; almost getting ASCAP’d for a Little Grass Shack; favoring amongst the four R.E.M.s; how Carl Newman’s maybe a little like a cat; overdue credit for Hetfield’s pointing; getting Telecasters into the trunk; almost getting to Merlin’s rules; skipping hard over “Electioneering”; relocating John’s candles to the piano; some follow-up on “The Jeez”; tucking a beard in a belt; goin’ deep catalog on Jerry Lewis; sniffing at the indestructible SM57; high-profile christening of Hotel Motherfucker; going to see the doctor of divinity; suspending the D; Tom Wolfe scoffs that it lacks a “persuasive theory”; and how one mysterious visitor very nearly filled Merlin’s wife with spiders.
Roderick on the Line Ep. 12 Show Notes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. Hi John, how are you? |
| 0:05.0 | Hi John, how are you? |
| 0:08.0 | Hi, John, how are you? Hi, Merlin, man. Man. |
| 0:13.0 | John. |
| 0:15.0 | You need a better song for me. |
| 0:17.0 | I have a song for you. |
| 0:19.0 | Darlin, darling, darling, darling, |
| 0:21.0 | John. |
| 0:22.0 | Yeah, all right. that's a work that works for me doesn't that kind of it's got a |
| 0:27.5 | What's that was that ping pong when you play the black keys only that's not frigian what do you call that? When you do that, you know |
| 0:34.0 | this song I mean, that John Lennon song. Yeah, there's a radiohead song too that's all on the |
| 0:39.2 | black keys. That's really good. It's the, it's that one that's impossible to learn because it's because it was written by geniuses. |
| 0:49.0 | Oh, God. Another one I'm talking about? Yeah, I'll bet it's no surprises now. |
| 0:54.0 | No, no, it's the piano one from one of those later records that were |
| 0:59.0 | one of the one of the bleeps. |
| 1:01.0 | Yeah, yeah, it was like, they kept putting out those records that were bleeps and bloopes and I and I was supposed to not like them and then every one of them had some great song on it that couldn't have been composed by mere mortals and |
| 1:15.0 | really just like oh you assholes I'm hmm I'm right that down I'm super |
| 1:19.7 | intrigued by that because it took me a really long time I sound like John Roderick I it took me a long time to warm up to |
| 1:26.7 | radio head and can you get a fair yeah not a huge well can can you guess the reason why I just I was way over radiohead and I was |
| 1:34.6 | fucking tired of hearing about how great radiohead was but more importantly how I |
| 1:39.1 | had to we have to listen to the radio head. Right. so, I liked the creep song, you know? |
| 1:45.0 | But you objected to being told that if you didn't like them, you weren't smart. |
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