For a main topic, John has a new project involving music playlists. Generational divides are identified, and we learn the lengths to which John will go for his ungrateful children.

208: Spinal Tap with Cowboy Hats

John Siracusa and Merlin Mann try to figure out exactly how they got this way. Hosted by Merlin Mann and John Siracusa.

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Merlin shares two recent experiences with Apple technology that were unqualified successes. Which, of course, leads to a jeremiad about some consumer tech that's a good deal less successful. John explains how writing books is like jazz, man.

234: The Bulgarian Punching Channel

Follow-Up opens with a correction from John and an admission that he's very disappointed in you, the listener. John clocks Merlin's sudden overuse of some given word.

233: Monkeys in the Hose

John guides Merlin through an unusual form of communication.

232: Ham Means One

Topic include perception, misdirection, binaries, and how it is that "Survivor" so rarely leaks.

231: The Seventh Segment of a Seventh Segment

A new season of _Survivor_ brings an amazing new dingaling with a novel definition of "several." Then, John chats with Merlin about his recent Apple Vision Pro experience.

208: Spinal Tap with Cowboy Hats

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