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Roderick on the Line

Ep. 245: "An Ongoing Situation"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Thelongwinters, Johnroderick, Merlinmann, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2019

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Pragnanz.

The Problem: Orange was John’s favorite color.

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0:00.0

Hello. Hi John. Hi John. Hi, Merlin. Oh you sound really good today. Do I? Mm-hmm. You do anything different? Well I feel that you know using

0:18.2

Marko's criteria today is going to be a little bit of a rough background noise day.

0:25.0

Okay.

0:26.0

Because, you know, he doesn't like background noise.

0:30.0

And I've got, so the Washington State College, the Cougars people across the street who are

0:41.6

rehabilitating Jamaica's house.

0:44.0

They have one of those little mini cats out there today.

0:48.0

Oh, of course.

0:50.0

So they're mini cat and then it's that season in Seattle when the sun comes out and all the airplanes go into the sky at once.

1:02.0

Because everybody here that wants to be in an go into the sky at once.

1:06.0

Because everybody here that wants to be in an airplane says, this is my moment.

1:08.0

It's airplane season.

1:09.0

It's airplane season big time.

1:11.0

So from a background noise standpoint, I mean just a few moments ago I was I was

1:17.7

like how's this going to work because they were unloading the mini cat and some kind of like Paraguayan

1:26.0

demonstration

1:27.0

jet demonstration team was flying overhead and I was like this is

1:29.8

going to interesting.

1:31.4

All those Paraguayans they love the demonstrations. It really do they love the they want to put on a show. It's part of their culture. Yeah. Well apologies if I don't know I assume Marco listens to the show I think I think he did at one point but you know

1:43.8

Marco I'm sorry it's it's it's hard I was on a show recently where one of the sides of the

1:48.4

recording took place somebody was on a beach and they were able to record background ambient beach noise and use some kind of

1:56.4

black magic to remove that particular range from the recording. Oh, it's crazy

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