Ep. 426: "My Little Cowboy"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Johnroderick, Thelongwinters, Merlinmann, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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The Problem: There was some noise down in the ravine.

(Recorded on Monday, May 24, 2021.)

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0:00.0	Hello, hi, John. Oh, it's you, Merlin. You sound great and you're coming through the
0:17.7	right A.V. Yeah, yeah. Well, you know what I did when the phone rang. I was like, okay,
0:23.6	okay, okay, okay. What? What? Get all the buttons and I was like, what is how does this
0:27.2	button? Oh, right, right, right. I have to put that button. So I was ready. I was ready.
0:33.2	I was 100% ready. You know, the answer here, John, automation. You should make some little
0:41.6	robots that control your world. Well, here's the problem. Yeah. I believe I was talking to you earlier
0:48.0	about the Apigee Cortet that I'm using. I use an Apigee device just on Friday and I didn't even
0:54.4	know it was an Apigee device until I until I looked. Oh, congratulations. I use the Dinguist that
0:59.2	turns a guitar cable into into a USB. I did not know about that Dinguist, but I'm interested.
1:06.9	It's, you know, it is, John. It's real clean. You know what I'm saying? It's real clean. You
1:10.5	don't, you don't have to mess with other hardware and I can't go straight into the board. I can play
1:15.2	my pop songs. I even hooked up a MIDI keyboard. I got it all going on. Well, the thing about this,
1:22.3	well, tell me about your Apigee. This is the one that just to be clear for our listeners. Hello
1:26.0	and welcome. Hi there. Please don't address the listeners. They, this was sent to you by I
1:31.9	Heart Sign Radio. Yes. When you did your, your podcast with Jeopardy Man for a while there on
1:40.0	their network. Yes. Because they said you need to, whether they say go to the next level,
1:44.1	probably, right? Let's go to the next level. Got a heart your radio more. This this Apigee Cortet,
1:49.9	it's got the real good, like analog to digital converters. I don't even think people use that,
1:55.2	that term anymore. But whatever it is, it's an interface. And it has this curious thing. I've
2:01.2	talked, I've talked to you about the big knob philosophies, right? The big knob. You know,
2:05.2	remind me because I think I might be real into it. Well, there's a, there was a, there was a thing
2:09.7	in audio pro audio for a while there where I guess things had too many buttons. You remember
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