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Roderick on the Line

Ep. 614: "Velour Cannon"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Thelongwinters, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Merlinmann, Johnroderick

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2026

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Half-Eaten Apple Man.

The Problem: cats are not afraid to send a message.

(Recorded on Monday, February 9, 2026.)


Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello?

0:05.9

Oh, hi, John.

0:08.3

I think you're on the wrong mic.

0:11.3

Me?

0:13.1

Yes.

0:15.7

Not you?

0:16.7

You're not on the wrong mic?

0:18.8

I don't know.

0:19.8

If this is the kind of extreme neurological event that I think is happening,

0:26.1

there may be literally no way for us to know.

0:30.2

But like, okay, so listen, I'm going to try and use what you call neurotypical words.

0:36.2

I think that you're going through your computer microphone rather than your regular hand microphone.

0:42.1

Well, you know, what's interesting is when I came on to this call,

0:47.6

I assume, you know, it says, do you want to open it in the app?

0:51.5

Or do you want to go through your browser?

0:53.6

Oh.

0:54.5

And, you know, usually what I do is I just push the blue button without reading the words.

1:00.5

This time you hit the red button because you're ready to see the truth.

1:04.1

That's kind of what happened.

1:05.4

I was like, maybe this is the first time in all the years that I've actually read the words

1:09.4

in the button.

1:10.3

Oh, I never do that. I used to call it at my old job they used to call it blah blah text. That's what it. That's what it is. But I, you know, so one of them is kind of illuminated and blue. And I'm like, that's surely the one I want to push, the blue one. Do you worry that you've overcommitted to this one route now without really knowing what you're getting into? Well, that's what's happened because then it said, uh, what name would you like to use

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