Ep. 489: "Heroin Parties"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

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

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The Problem: It didn’t connect under John’s nose.

(Recorded on Monday, February 13, 2023.)

Support Roderick on the Line on Patreon.

This episode of Roderick on the Line is brought to you by Squarespace. Free trial plus 10% off your first purchase with the special offer code, “SUPERTRAIN.”

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hello. Hi, John. Hi, Merlin. How's it going? Hmm. It's going great. Great, great, great, great.
0:20.0	Hmm. You're such a pro. So I'm a pro too. Yeah. Well, I know you are. I mean, I, you know, we both,
0:27.9	yeah, I mean, we both show up here. That's right. Week after week. I'm in, you wouldn't know it
0:34.4	because I am. That's previously stipulated a professional, but I'm a little bit of disarray right now.
0:40.8	You know, I wouldn't be able to tell. I wouldn't be able to thank you. Thank you. The system works. Yeah,
0:45.2	I got a new microphone and I was testing it out. And as ever, it doesn't have to be better than
0:50.7	the microphone I've already got, which is pretty nice. And it's, you know, there's two mics.
0:55.6	Everybody uses for everything. You use one. I use the other. Yeah. And you use the, sure, I use the,
1:03.6	what? Evie, right? Evie already 20 already 20. That's right. Ladies. That's right. So there's all
1:09.6	of that. And then excuse me, say what? Huh? You know, I know they're far do they burrow.
1:19.1	I know this guy, Marco, that might be able to help you find a good microphone for podcasting. Uh-huh.
1:25.2	What about headphones? Can you have me with a headphone? I think so. I haven't read all of his stuff,
1:30.5	but yeah, I think he's, I think he could walk you through. He doesn't publish as much anymore.
1:34.8	So it's pretty easy to catch up. Um, deep, the thing, the thing, you know what? Hello. You know what?
1:40.5	It's fine. It's all fine. I'm a little bit, I'm a little, you know what? Monday mornings.
1:49.0	Monday morning, coming down Monday morning, coming down like cleanest dirty shirt. I call it.
1:55.4	So start the show. I got everything's discombobulated. I'm checking my levels. Are you 20?
2:00.4	Or you got a different, or you changed from the RE 20? I keep, no, no. I got the RE 20 a long time ago,
2:07.7	because everybody says that's, that's a pretty standard. You'll sound like John Dickerson if you use
2:11.2	this mic. That's what they said. You can put it right on a kick drum. And it's going to, it's going to sound
2:17.7	fat. It's going to sound warm and punchy. Is that right? Yeah. Right on, you just put it right on
2:23.2	the kick drum, warm and punchy. But you would pick a, you would probably pick a less costly
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Merlin Mann, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Merlin Mann and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.