This episode of Roderick on the line is sponsored by the National Gondola Manufacturers Association.

The N GMA develops and lobbies for pro-Gondola policies.

It advanced the well-being of gondola producers, building a more just, verdant, and peaceful society.

In GMA, we help make the things that help make gondolas. Hello. Hey John. Hi Merlin. How's it going? It's going okay. How are you going?

It's going okay. How are you going?

John, the two of us need look no more

okay I prepared that it wasn't very good but I had something prepared

i liked it i liked it I liked it

You know he singing to a rat a

Distortion pedal or you are literally singing to a rat right now. I never understood the filter knob

Oh, it's just a, it's just like.

Is that a mid pass?

Is that a mid pass?

High pass, I think.

Yeah, I think that was Michael Jackson's hit

about the rat from that movie. Oh sure, Algernon. Yep, Flowers for Ben Algernon. Yeah, I loved that. It's about the death of a salesman in many ways.

Mm-hmm. I've always found that it was a long day's

journey into night. Yes it was an Ibsen of a doll house. Let's keep going. Come on. I wrote a song that's right. It is a hot L Baltimore. It is a it is a hot L. Baltimore.

It is a green light over East Egg.

You know, I prepared wrong. I should have spent more time on Wikipedia.

You wrote a song? You wrote a song?

It is a short happy life of Francis Macombre.

...