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SHUBNIGGURATHS CLIT posted:This is a good god drat podcast. I listened to em for the first time the other day, with their newest episode "Topcoat of Bonkers." I'm familiar with Roderick from his appearances on John Hodgman's audiobook and Judge John Hodgman, but I didn't realize exactly how funny and cool and rad he is till I listened to this podcast! The most amazing thing about Roderick on the Line is that I can't think of a single bad or even mediocre episode. There are some that really grabbed me and managed to go being being funny and interesting to really poignant, but they're all just great.
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AnnoyBot posted:Anyone else wondering what he has to say about the tea party? Because they make a point to avoid it, often. I think this is just because Merlin dislikes talking about politics. He avoids the topic on everything else of his I've ever listened to. There is an episode where they do get into politics for a bit but I can't remember which one it was. He doesn't have any super unorthodox political views or anything like that; I think he just prefers not to get into it.
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Poopy Palpy posted:I think that the truly amazing thing about Roderick on the Line is the way that John can, without fail, have an entertaining conversation for about an hour and then say something that there's no way to follow. You'd think there'd be an episode or two that only lasted ten minutes before he hit an ender, but no. Every episode runs one podcastlength and then ends perfectly. Yeah, there was a recent one that was under an hour, but they otherwise fall remarkably close to 1h15-1h30. And there's always that build-up when John is getting ready to say that thing, usually in the last five or ten minutes. I don't know if that's the magic of editing or if it just happens that way every time, but it's impressive either way. Sometimes it's pretty drat profound, too.
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There's a nice interview with John on this episode of CMD+SPACE (those of you who are fans of 5by5 stuff might recognize Myke Hurley from some of Dan Benjamin's shows.) Gave me a lot to think about, as his stuff often does.
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