Ep. 17: "Antisocially Promoted"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2012
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Roderick on the Line - Ep. 17: “Antisocially Promoted” on Huffduffer
The Problem: Sometimes, the system works a little too well.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. Hi John, how are you? Hi John, how are you? Hi, Merlin. Are you doing well? |
| 0:10.0 | Merlin, man. I gotta work on something better. |
| 0:16.8 | What do you recommend? |
| 0:17.8 | What do you think? What would you, how would you like your name sung? |
| 0:21.3 | It's not really, my name isn't as singable as your name. |
| 0:24.2 | It's like picking up... |
| 0:25.2 | It's like asking for a Christmas present, right? |
| 0:27.2 | I should come up with something. |
| 0:28.2 | Well, I don't know. |
| 0:29.7 | I mean, that... |
| 0:30.7 | People have tried to give me theme music. |
| 0:34.0 | I've always felt like the best theme music I ever had I bought a |
| 0:39.0 | was on tour one time and bought one of those little 99 cent keyboards in a thrift store and it had it had like 10 |
| 0:49.2 | presets on it preset buttons like that played little themes and one of them just said Oriental. |
| 0:56.2 | Which of course is great. |
| 0:59.2 | Congratulations John, that's a new record. |
| 1:01.2 | And when you push... |
| 1:02.2 | 54 seconds to ping pong. |
| 1:04.0 | When you pressed in the button, the keyboard, there was a little 8-bit keyboard, it just went, |
| 1:08.0 | da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da. |
| 1:11.0 | And so I carried that keyboard around on tour for like three weeks and every time like before I would enter a room I would just put the hold the keyboard through the door and push the button. After like a month of that how much fear that horrible |
| 1:27.5 | little sound would strike in someone's heart. It was so great because it was one of |
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