Ep. 381: "Slots in Some Imaginary Future"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2020
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
The Problem: John was the chase vehicle.
(Recorded on Monday, May 4, 2020.)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. Hi John. I'm |
| 0:06.3 | Hello. Hi John. |
| 0:08.6 | Hi, Merlin. How's it going? |
| 0:12.0 | Merlin, Uh-huh. going. your |
| 0:23.0 | not fan but I mean I know you're not a fan but I mean like I'm very I'm very triggered by |
| 0:29.0 | audio things where I'll get a song in my head. An obvious example is twice in the last week I've heard |
| 0:38.1 | someone sing a little of the song Bell from Beauty and the Beast and now that's just in my head all the time. |
| 0:45.1 | Oh, you the song I'm talking about? |
| 0:48.0 | Nope. Oh. There goes the baker with his tray like always the same old bread and |
| 0:53.4 | roast to sell. |
| 0:54.4 | Nope can't uh can't say that I know that. |
| 0:56.8 | It kind of sounds like a Morrissey song. |
| 0:58.8 | Every morning just the same since the morning that we came to this poor provincial town. |
| 1:03.6 | I know for a fact that you have Morrissey song stuck in your head. |
| 1:08.0 | I know that for a fact. |
| 1:09.0 | I get Morrissey, yes, I get Morrissey cadences in my head. |
| 1:12.4 | Yes. That's actually a very good example. I get more to cadences in my head. |
| 1:12.8 | But that's actually a very good example of this larger phenomenon. |
| 1:16.1 | And yes, I've talked about this in different places because it's part of my life |
| 1:20.0 | and that's what I talk about. |
| 1:22.2 | What I'm here to say is that sometimes there will be a certain rhythm |
| 1:27.1 | to how someone says something that will trigger a phrase or a song and sometimes it won't be until a few hours later that I go |
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