Good morning from hell. It's a good friend Clayton live from hell. As usual with Chris. Chris, say hello.

Hello. If you don't know, I'm dead. And my... If you don't know, I'm dead.

Take it again. Take it again. Yeah, sorry. I like to rub my finger on Chris's lipstick tongue time sometimes it worked really well yeah I'm dead and my eternal punishment is to do this podcast where we interview everyone in hell with Satan's little brother Clayton that's me yeah so we've been having an issue yeah yeah we don't often talk about these kinds of things with their audience but Chris go ahead because I think we need to be transparent yeah all of all of our merch is jammed up. It's all tied up. We're not able to deliver it. We've got a bunch of new merch. It's stored out Good Morning for Meld.com, but it's not being able to deliver. It's just so many trade negotiations and just like red tape that we've got to cut through. And it's Like, when you think about this is a fantastical show, we have all these crazy colorful characters,

and then it's like, oh, this about this is a fantastical show, we have all these crazy

colorful characters. And then it's like, oh, this is kind of, what are they talking about trade negotiations and stuff for? But like, these are the real issues that the audience I feel like should be aware of. Yeah. But, Chris, I might have a fix. I might have a fix for this. I'm going to be bringing in a guest today. Audience don't click away.

It's going to get a little bit more

on the logistical side of things,

but this guy is kind of an expert when it comes to trade negotiations and shipping lanes and things like that. He's also got some other experiences and other evil sectors and places as well. Okay. Chris, do you know who the guy is for today? Go ahead, take crack at it. Boris Johnson?

No, fuck, no.

Absolutely not.

He is down here, but... No, he's still alive. Is he? Is he a demon? I can't comment. I can't comment on this. Anyway, hey, introducing Emperor Sheaf Palpatine. Hey! Oh. Thank you so much for having me. My lord, my dark lord, it's so good to see you here. How was your travels? Did you travel far? Oh, I fell quite a distance. I was thrown down a reactor shaft, as you know. Again? Again with the reactor shafts in Perp, Paltine. Look, I've died many times I've fallen. My granddaughter killed me. I was trying to make her part of the family.

She didn't want it.

Now I'm back. I'm back here. You've got to get some taller railing. Yeah, you guys need to get some guardrails. What's up with that? Absolutely not. No? No. That was the first thing I got rid of. When I took power and destroyed the Republic. Uh-huh. No more guardrails. Oh. What's the logic behind No More Guardrails?

Because you seem to have become victim of Nobem More Guardrails. Briefly, yes, I was thrown over a guardrail. Although, if you note, there was a railing around that particular shaft. There was. Fair, fair. But I figure if you're too weak to stand on your own if you fall down a bottomless pit my death star you deserve to die you did lose one of your like little dark acolyte guys ball sorry

spoilers for a movie from 1999 he got pushed down a hole a chasm a, a big chasm. He deserved it.

He gets cut in half by a Padawan.

Yeah. No, no longer my apprentice. I see. Okay. Well, I'm glad you came in here from a galaxy far, far away down that dark, dark chasm. Chris, you're geeking out, I can tell. Yeah. It's improper property to it in the flesh. It's not very good flesh. it's very gray.

It's squishy.

It's waxy.

Yeah.

I have looked better, I admit.

Actually, I don't want to focus on this too much.

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