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Roderick on the Line

Ep. 627: "American Morning"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Thelongwinters, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Merlinmann, Johnroderick

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In the cool light of wherever you are.

The Problem: Most of us don’t think of ourselves as a project.

(Recorded on June 1, 2026.)


Transcript

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0:00.0

We are recording.

0:14.3

Hi.

0:15.7

Hello.

0:18.1

What's going on over there?

0:20.0

What the fuck do you think is going on?

0:22.1

It's 10.58 a.m.

0:23.9

Why are you here?

0:25.2

What is happening?

0:26.1

Are you still reacclimating?

0:27.9

Yeah, I'm still getting up at like 8.30 in the morning.

0:32.8

You're getting up at 8.30 in the American morning.

0:36.5

In the American morning and I'm just wandering around like, who by noon, it feels like a whole day has gone by.

0:43.3

How long?

0:44.3

I don't know, you know, some nights I sleep more deeply than others or to put it differently.

0:49.3

Sometimes I'm in more of a state of kind of awareness and agitation in the morning, you know, waiting

0:54.4

for that cortisol to start destroying my life. And, but there will be a moment where I'm like, you know, because sometimes I take a nap at the office. Sometimes I sleep on the, I'm sleeping on the couch. I'm sleeping in the bed. First I'm like, hmm, hmm, hmm, like, oh, uh, where am I what's happening what time is it do you are you

1:11.1

what I'm trying to say is do you get that kind of thing? Do you wake up with a notion that you need to check against the world?

1:18.4

And it sounds like you must still be doing that a little bit. Who am I? Why am I here? Why is it 8.30 a.m.?

1:25.0

Is this, what country is this?

1:27.8

This morning, I woke up and I came out of a dream.

1:32.7

And I haven't, I don't think, come out of a dream where I retained the dream for longer

1:41.5

than a couple of seconds.

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