Hello. Hi John, how are you? Hi John, how are you? Hi, Merlin. How's it going? It's going pretty well. I haven't been getting a ton of sleep. No, really? Yeah. Have you been eating?

Cake? I've been eating cake

There's certain kind you stocked up on

Well, it's pumpkin pie season so I have I have a pumpkin pie but I also I have a chocolate cake to or what's left of a chocolate cake I've worked my way through it pretty fast.

How's cake get into your house? Well in this case I made it. I made a chocolate cake I sat down knowingly and produced 15,000 calories of chocolate cake for myself.

Actually it was a birthday cake I made for a friend

that then I just kept the majority of.

I have so many questions. I mean I did cut a portion of it out and put it in a Tupperware

container and give it to her and I said happy birthday but most of the cake I was it clearly cut from a larger cake

Did you give somebody a partial birthday cake? She was standing there and said that's my that's my birthday cake right are you going to give that to me it's not yours yet to take and I said I'll give you some and I cut her off a healthy portion not the majority of it.

My first thought and I'm sorry to use two alcohol references.

My first thought was being the guy who arrives with a 12 pack of Bush light that has two beers left in it.

But then I was reminded of, as you know, one of the great films, Vacation, when Randyay it says the Chevy Chase I bet you could use a cool one and

then he hands in the beer that he's been drinking.

Now I'm not saying it's the same thing I know you're not you're not a you're

not a drinker but was the cake cut when she arrived? I did walk through a party the other day and say you know address the room and say anybody wants them anybody want a cup of coffee, I got coffee.

I was making a pot in the other room and a bunch of people turned to me and then I noticed I was holding a,

I was just holding a, like a Starbucks cup. They all looked down at me and I was like, I mean I got the last little bit here if anybody wants some.

No takers.

No, I'm not a part of the parties you go to that not a lot. I mean I know you live in a

Specific specifically a city that is obsessed with coffee, but parties the parties that you walk through making announcements now are

most people they're having a they're having a cocktail they're not they're not having

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