Ep. 180: "The Other Pope"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

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

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🗓️ 23 November 2015

⏱️ 79 minutes

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The Problem: John worked on the curves.

(Recorded November 16, 2015)

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0:00.0	Hello.
0:10.0	Hi John.
0:10.0	I John.
0:12.0	Berlin, man. Hi John. Meryland.
0:14.0	John Roderick, we stand on guard for thee.
0:21.0	Yeah, that's interesting. Why when you say my name in song form it always sounds like a him like a Methodist him.
0:28.0	Hmm say it soft. It's almost like praying. John Roderick. John Roderick.
0:34.0	I just met a man named John Roderick.
0:38.0	Oh now it sounds like a musical.
0:40.0	I'm doing Maria.
0:42.0	Uh-huh. What's your stance on musicals? Oh, they always make me
0:47.9	uncomfortable. You know there's so much of culture and I'm not even going to say
0:51.8	popular culture just culture.
0:53.4	Yep.
0:54.4	That makes me wins.
0:56.4	I walk into it, wincing.
0:58.9	Stand-up comedy shows, improv.
1:01.3	Bands I don't know. People's first novel. YouTube videos. I just go into it.
1:09.1	I just waiting to get like it's like I'm waiting to get whacked in the face with a cricket bat
1:14.4	Because the I'm just like oh don't oh most stuff is so awful please don't be awful and then it is is it it's the breaking into song I'm guessing? Well I mean some of those
1:26.5	great musicals where there's a lot of dancing and stuff he's going to tell he's going to tell he's great but I think it's the songs I think a lot of the
1:34.4	songs I just don't think are good songs oh man that's funny it's the songs that I
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