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Roderick on the Line

Ep. 597: "The Referee of Negativity"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

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

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Never enter complaining.

The Problem: John is more than a large cat.

(Recorded on Monday, October 6, 2025.)


Transcript

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0:00.0

Recording

0:06.4

Recording

0:09.5

Hi John

0:11.8

Fine, okay, no, that's fine.

0:15.8

No.

0:15.9

Recording.

0:19.0

You want to edit this shit

0:21.3

I'll hand it over you can just open up garage band

0:27.5

and get a clean open

0:30.4

I'm gonna put a lot of reverb on it

0:33.2

we can record in a bathroom We can record in a bathroom.

0:55.1

I have done it. As you know. Well, you know, you too, they got a whole, like, castle, you know, for that purpose, I think. Huh? Well, you know, when they did the, don't you remember, like, the Unforgettable Fire? Didn't Brian Eno rent a castle or something? Oh, right. just for the reverb. reverb yeah you gotta go down the corridor lurking in the corridors you know the famous story where the where the engineer

1:00.4

was trying to put microphones on john bottom's drums and he kept throwing his sticks at him

1:05.1

no i don't think i've heard that because he he didn't want the mic he didn't want the drums close mic

1:09.7

he wanted the mics all put far

1:12.5

far away from the drums for the reaver right the reverberation that it was so big yeah yeah yeah

1:17.9

he was like get those mics away from my drums yeah yeah i'm always i well i i've just in every

1:25.6

in every kind of situation like that i i've been pretty uh i don't know, you don't like to be too assertive with the engineer, you know? Yeah, yeah. Well, well, I don't know. I don't know. I was thinking about that. I heard a song the other day. What did I hear? I heard a pops, oh, you know what it was? I heard like, uh, I was listening, it doesn't matter,

1:45.5

but I heard a song from approximately the mid-90s and it had what I would describe as a Dr. Dre keyboard on it. Uh-huh. So it's got, it's squeak, well, squeaky, but the main thing I think of is that like, I don't know,

1:58.1

on my old casket

1:58.7

casketo you call it portamento.

2:00.7

Like, where it's a weir,

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