Ep. 16: "Cotton Candy Pink Poofy La-La"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2012
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
The Problems: some Tommies in rock; the ad mominem attack; a Shirley Jackson “The Lottery”-type situation; passing diabetes to the tater tots; John’s quest for a worthy Smart Hate Sink; fighting to stay grandfathered into free nights, weekends, and friends; always with the ping-pong; and, why it might finally be time for John to whip out his long, pastoral paean.
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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, Merlin. |
| 0:09.0 | How's every little thing? |
| 0:11.0 | No, wait, I'm scratched that. |
| 0:12.0 | Let me start over. How's it going? |
| 0:15.0 | It's good. Why did you scratch how's every little thing? Because it sounds like a |
| 0:18.9 | lyric from a 60s musical. How's every little thing? How's every little thing with you and me? |
| 0:31.0 | Are you a show tunes man? I don't see you being a show tunes man. Not really. Yeah. My wife can't stay in the show tunes. |
| 0:38.0 | You know, I came of age in Seattle during the last great, the last great waning days of the true like |
| 0:46.2 | renaissance of gay America when when you came of age |
| 0:51.8 | of gay people still had show tunes and drag and and Barbara Streisand and all these things that that they rallied around and |
| 1:02.8 | and set them apart. |
| 1:04.8 | That really meant something. |
| 1:06.5 | It was a separate culture and now that's all lost. |
| 1:10.4 | No one cares about those things anymore. I don't think except for like 50 year old former drag queens |
| 1:17.0 | Right I don't think there's an ironic I don't see any kind of hipster show tunes happening although now that we've said it. |
| 1:26.4 | Yeah. You know it's not like it's not like listening to soft sell or something. |
| 1:30.8 | It's not something where they're sitting around going, oh, |
| 1:32.6 | YMCA, this is, but there's a campiness, a certain campiness that I admire. |
| 1:37.8 | A certain campiness? Are you using your penetrating vision to see the campiness that was apparent to work in the ping pong? |
| 1:47.0 | I have an extremely penetrating vision. |
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