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Roderick on the Line

Ep. 54: "This Is Not YOUR Kennel"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Johnroderick, Society & Culture, Thelongwinters, Philosophy, Merlinmann

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2012

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

I bet you've got a King and a Queen, don't you?

Roderick on the Line - Ep. 54: “This Is Not YOUR Kennel” on Huffduffer

The Problem: Sitting on Daddy’s lap may be all that saves you from the Gestapo.

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0:00.0

Hello. Hi John. Hi John. How are you?

0:24.0

Hi Merlin. How are you? I'm good. Yeah. How are you? I'm good. Yeah. How are you? I'm good. This is a little bit early. Do I sound boomey? You sound, you sound far away. I sound far away. I sound far away.

0:25.0

You are far away.

0:26.0

You are in California.

0:27.0

Yeah.

0:28.0

Well, you know, I don't want to break the fourth wall, as they say.

0:30.0

Yeah, what happened?

0:31.0

Did you get a new microphone? Um, no, no, no, same microphone. I think my, um, I think for one thing in my hearing, uh, I'm getting into that, like, uh, Pete Townsend, Bob Mool thing where I... Oh you got a little tenitis.

0:45.8

No, no, thank God, knock on what I don't, but I've got...

0:50.0

The range of what I can hear is does not include the human voice anymore.

0:55.0

Oh, I see.

0:56.0

I think it was Pete Townsend.

0:57.0

It might be Pete Townsend talked about that, that that's the thing is when you stand in front of a

1:00.0

highwatt, well, many highwatts for that many years. It's ironic that the range, well as you

1:07.4

know I'm not an audiologist, but the range, well thank you, I do it again.. The range gets knocked out is very close to the range of a

1:17.0

human voice. Yeah I find even more specifically the range that gets knocked out for me is the range of the female

1:26.6

human voice. Yeah it's hard to hear women I was I didn't want to say anything but

1:29.8

especially when you're alone with them.

1:33.0

Yeah, right, or they have some things they want to talk about.

1:37.0

Yeah, and the matter they get, the harder it is to hear them.

1:40.0

Yeah.

1:41.0

Pete Townsend said that.

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