Ep. 324: "Caged Wheat"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2019
⏱️ 72 minutes
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The Problem: They all grow in the shade of the night.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. Hey, John. Hi, Merlin. How's it going? Good. How are you going? |
| 0:13.0 | Good. That sounded feisty. That was hearty sounding. I'm arguing with myself. I'm arguing with the |
| 0:20.0 | internet. Well, I'm looking at myself. I'm arguing with the internet. |
| 0:25.4 | Well, I'm looking at people's lists on Spotify, and I don't know. |
| 0:28.6 | I don't want to be that guy, but some of the terminology, I think people get a little bit wrong. |
| 0:29.4 | On Spotify about their song. |
| 0:31.4 | I think everybody is entitled to like what they like. |
| 0:34.4 | Sure. |
| 0:34.7 | But, like, if I'm looking for chamber pop, I'll suck for some Baroque Pop for Shizzle. |
| 0:42.9 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:43.5 | But what I don't want is too much neosychadelia. |
| 0:47.6 | Oh. |
| 0:50.0 | Okay. |
| 0:51.2 | I think on some level, if you were writing a book, we can all agree. |
| 0:55.4 | Penny Lane, yeah, oh, well, that's chamber pop song. But, like, I don't need five Beatles songs on this list. No. I know about the Beatles. I want to know some new things. Yes, I've heard of the zombies. They're quite good. I want you to jazz it up a little bit. Give me some stuff, some 90s, 2000 stuff that I haven't heard. |
| 1:10.9 | You know what I'm saying? |
| 1:11.4 | Yeah, you want to jazz it up, but you don't want it to be jazz. |
| 1:14.0 | I don't heard. |
| 1:11.0 | You know what I'm saying? |
| 1:11.3 | Yeah, you want to jazz it up, but you don't want it to be jazz. I don't want to see. Now, jazz, I could, I could probably use some help. I'm one of those guys to jazz jazz jazz. That's bad. Jazz, man. What is jazz? Jazz is a swoonie, syncopated beat. |
| 1:29.1 | Over on the Omnibus podcast, I What is jazz? Jazz is a swoony, syncopated beat. |
| 1:29.1 | Over on the Omnibus podcast, I talked a little bit about, I did an episode on what you might call classical classical metal. |
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