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Roderick on the Line

Ep. 467: "Interstate William"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Self-help, Merlinmann, Thelongwinters, Johnroderick, Roderick, Winters, Long, The, Philosophy, Society & Culture, John, Merlin, Mann

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

As the corvid flies.

The Problem: The crows really love those grubs.

(Recorded on Monday, July 11, 2022.)

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0:00.0

Room, Room, Room, Room!

0:14.8

What do you think the inspiration for that was?

0:27.2

I like what you're laying down with those beats.

0:30.9

It's got a little bit of a tape rubac kind of feeling a little bit.

0:35.6

This is going to be the whole show.

0:41.4

It might be just, if you heard somebody doing that, you'd think it's a little bit of what

0:45.9

I would consider maybe a vamp.

0:47.4

You know, we do like stop time, like a tap dancing solo or something.

0:52.2

Sure, a tap dancing solo, yeah.

0:54.6

But a little vamp, right, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum,

1:00.8

yeah, absolutely.

1:01.8

It's a, and now we go to commercial.

1:03.9

And you know what it is, the truth is, now that you've done that for me, I really think

1:07.7

it sounds like somebody vamping while somebody like, say, a max roach does a really cool jazz

1:12.9

drum solo.

1:13.9

It could be a thing where somebody's like under a bridge in Prague and they've got a whole

1:32.1

bunch of cognac glasses set up with different amounts of water in them.

1:37.9

So it's a little, it's a little bit of a, like it's a glock and spiel except, except

1:42.7

with Cormoran and glass harmonica.

1:45.2

Yeah, exactly.

1:46.2

Glass harmonica.

1:47.4

I could see, I could see like a girl in a surgical mask and a Tokyo subway who has

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