Ep. 83: "The Roderick Group"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2013
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Ep. 83: “The Roderick Group” - Roderick on the Line - Merlin Mann on Huffduffer
The Problem: John feels like ripping America out of the wall.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. Hey John. |
| 0:06.0 | Hey John. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Merlin. |
| 0:10.0 | How's it going? |
| 0:11.0 | Berlin, man, John, don't take your love town. |
| 0:17.0 | God, it's early. |
| 0:21.0 | God, it's early. The worm has turned. The worm has turned. I just looked that phrase up not but two days ago. |
| 0:31.0 | Yeah, is it German? No, it's Shakespeare. I knew that it was Shakespeare, but I thought, |
| 0:38.0 | I thought that it meant, I've been using it, of course, as we all all have forever and I thought that it meant |
| 0:44.7 | ah now the now the jig is up now the shoes on the other foot now the |
| 0:52.2 | you know what I mean? |
| 0:53.0 | The switcheru has been pulled. |
| 0:55.0 | Switcheru has been pulled. |
| 0:56.0 | That's exactly right. |
| 0:57.0 | But in fact, in Shakespeare, it means literally that even the worm one day will rise up if you insult him step on the worm even the worm will turn and I think I like that one better I liked it better too and I was astonished at how how |
| 1:27.0 | neutered the term had become over the centuries. You know he's just sort of like |
| 1:32.4 | oh the worm is turned. |
| 1:34.0 | Hmm, shmmm, shmmmm, but in fact it means no, the worm will rise up and fight you. |
| 1:40.0 | Even the worm. |
| 1:42.0 | Oh, it's really chilling. It's gnarly. Yeah. So all of a |
| 1:47.0 | sudden I no longer feel like I can use the worm has turned in the mundane events of my normal life. I have to I have to save it |
| 1:57.7 | until I am I mean it's like it's some shit that a that a superhero would say when they had almost completely |
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