Ep. 18: "Main Pastrami Incisor"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2012
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Ep. 18: “Main Pastrami Incisor” - Roderick on the Line - Merlin Mann on Huffduffer
The Problem: Where’s John’s parade?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. Hi John, how are you? |
| 0:07.0 | Hi John, how are you? Hi, Merlin, man. |
| 0:11.0 | I'll never get sick of it. You know what,'m going to make a note that I got to work on this |
| 0:15.2 | song thing. This is this is getting out of hand. The problem with have I expressed this already. |
| 0:19.8 | The problem with that being your theme song is that the next line is don't mean a thing |
| 0:23.7 | all you Merlin mans don't mean a thing to me but that's not true you do mean |
| 0:31.5 | something to me and and so it's it's hard for me to sing that even though it's it's stuck in my head. |
| 0:39.3 | Mm-hmm because because I can't because the sentiment doesn't reflect my true feelings |
| 0:45.0 | Part part of you says germane and another part says Tito |
| 0:49.0 | No, is that nasty boys is that what you're saying? Yeah, it's a, it's Janet. |
| 0:54.0 | There's a lot of controversy about this, John. |
| 0:56.0 | People, I think people have made the argument persuasively that you're actually singing something different. |
| 1:00.0 | I don't want you to, you're a a professional musician I'm not going to tell you |
| 1:03.2 | what's the wrong people have ten years all you have to do is hold up that that uh that web |
| 1:09.1 | app or that that iPhone app up to the stereos to see how bad technology is at identifying songs. |
| 1:17.0 | Tell you what buddy that has come a long way since that day you and I tried to find |
| 1:22.0 | your songs it's come a very long way. |
| 1:23.5 | It has come a long way, but my problem is that the songs |
| 1:26.2 | that I want to identify, I'm usually listening to |
| 1:29.8 | in a crowded supermarket at really low volume and I hold my phone up in the air to try and |
| 1:36.3 | get the to try and get the audio but they're clattering shopping carts and |
| 1:42.1 | yelling kids and the thing can't it can't sort the music out from them |
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