Ep. 602: "Cinnamon Toast"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

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

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

The Problem: John wasn’t made to leave it.

(Recorded on Monday, November 17, 2025.)

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0:00.0	Hello.
0:06.3	Hi, John.
0:08.4	Hi, Merlin.
0:09.7	Good morning, Captain.
0:12.2	Joining from the workplace, workplace app.
0:15.5	Do you want an AI companion at work?
0:18.1	Do you want an AI friend who will work with you at work in the workplace?
0:22.6	Yes, yes, yes, yes.
0:24.6	Continue on your privacy rights.
0:26.6	You're going to get assistance day and night.
0:29.6	Can you imagine how much more dynamic this program would be if we unleash the power of AI.
0:38.9	Who?
0:39.7	Yeah, I know.
0:43.1	What would the first thing that was different be?
0:45.9	Oh, geez.
0:46.6	It's early.
0:49.9	I'm trying to figure out how to make this either funny or serious or funny.
0:50.9	Yeah, I know.
0:52.4	Serious or funny or serious or funny. You know, there'd be extra fingers. Ah, ha ha ha ha ha. That was serious and funny. A.I. Slop. Slop. Slop. Slop's a word I learned. Well, it's everything now. Everything's slop. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I suppose. I'm going to close this window. I don't know, man. You know, everybody wants you to do stuff. How you doing? You were out last week and now you're here. Oh, yeah. I was sick. I was sick for two weeks like it used to be before the pandemic. Like in the regular days when you just get colds? Back in the old days when you get a cold and then, you know, like me, it's like, you have a sniffle and you're like, okay, everybody else would be over this in two days, but I'm about to go on a Nantucket's lay ride where I'm every kind of sick and then I feel better and I go out one night and then I get
1:45.6	10 times more sick.
1:47.2	That's how they get you.
1:48.2	And then my ears are plugged up and then my eyebrows fall out.
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