Ep. 342: "The Scrappy Sessions"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2019
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
The Problem: A vacation to 20 years ago.
(Recorded on Monday, June 3, 2019.)
Programming note: Roderick on the Line is taking a Summer hiatus for a couple weeks, but we’ll return with a new episode on Monday, July 15th.
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| 0:00.0 | And we're back. |
| 0:05.0 | John's just tuning in. |
| 0:09.0 | John is taking us on a journey catching up on how would you describe it the the man stuff you've done in the past |
| 0:14.7 | how you got to where you were eventually with the long winners and we left off with you |
| 0:19.6 | watching a band called algae with a girl doing interesting stuff with a guitar and singing. |
| 0:23.7 | Yeah, her name was Stephanie and and the Bun family players were kind of coming to |
| 0:32.4 | we were in some ways the most popular we'd ever been. |
| 0:36.4 | We actually had fans. |
| 0:37.8 | People made jackets with our name on it. It was, I think Kevin always imagined that we would be |
| 0:50.4 | rock stars. That was his template and and I didn't have a different one at first so and I don't |
| 0:57.8 | think anybody in America really had a different one that was what was so astonishing |
| 1:01.4 | about DIY and punk rock was that was what was so astonishing about DIY and punk rock was that they had a |
| 1:05.6 | vision for themselves as musicians that that wasn't to be rock stars but that |
| 1:11.7 | didn't trickle down to me for a while. But a lot of people had never |
| 1:16.8 | trickled down to. And I remember the offspring became a big band and the story was that Dexter Holland the singer was also some |
| 1:25.9 | kind of he had a master's degree or whatever a doctorate in. |
| 1:28.9 | Oh he's like a like a helmet guy is that keeping separated? |
| 1:32.1 | Yeah keep him separated he was some kind of I don't |
| 1:34.5 | know physicist or chemist or something and Kevin really identified with that |
| 1:38.8 | because he had a very strong feeling that he needed to have an advanced degree in order to have |
| 1:44.8 | fulfilled his commitment to our smarty pants suburban upbringing, right? |
| 1:51.6 | That at some point in his youth he targeted, he set a baseline for himself of a master's degree |
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