Ep. 414: "Groomed Into Insanity"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Johnroderick, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Thelongwinters, Merlinmann

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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The Problem: Would you bring me some tape?

(Recorded on Monday, February 22, 2021.)

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0:00.0	Hello?
0:06.2	Hi, John.
0:07.1	Hi, Merlin.
0:09.0	How's it going?
0:11.6	Well, aside from the fact that my computer just went on a journey.
0:18.5	Well, you entrusted this machine with making the right technical decisions. It's something we all have to do. And so, so, so, you know, we had some little oopsie-dubsies. How do I sound, by the way, am I okay? Oh, you sound amazing. Oh, thank you. Thank you so to you. It's so good to hear your voice. It's always nice to hear your voice. But, you know, it takes you on a journey sometimes.
0:38.9	In this case, what did you have?
0:39.8	Did it run some diagnostics, John?
0:42.0	No, I pushed restart on it because you and I were trying to troubleshoot some, just basic audio stuff.
0:49.3	And then on restart, as we say, in the parlance, it said that OS, Mac OS Catalina, a thing that I installed, we discussed this last week.
1:06.2	Yeah, you needed to update to where they were, instead of being named after cats, they named them after salad dressings.
1:12.9	Mm-hmm.
1:14.1	So I...
1:14.8	Coming soon.
1:17.2	MacOS, Thousand Island.
1:19.1	I did this last month.
1:20.2	We can't wait to see what you do with this.
1:24.7	I updated it last week, and I've been using it all week.
1:28.2	It's very stable.
1:30.5	I have the crouton add-ons, yes.
1:32.9	The plug-ins.
1:34.0	Call it a mixing.
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