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Hello. Hi John. Hi John. Hi, I'm Merlin. How's it going? Well, I'm trying something new.

You type in with one hand, what are you doing?

At some point.

Jim here.

I said to John on the robot, are you ready to record and he said Jim here.

I at some so I was I was cleaning out an old guitar case yesterday and I found my old rat pedal which had been

missing and then I found this bag of Starbucks Starbucks

basically like little nest cafe tubes.

Did you ever experience Nes Cafe?

In...

Yeah, you know, I'm just trying to put this all together. Is this sort of like the things you get, like European sugar holders? Is it that kind of shape, like a tube like that?

Yeah, it's a little paper tube. In Europe, you'll often be in situations where the only coffee

that you have available is Nes Cafe, which is just instant like pour, pour the little grounds, pour some grounds in, pour some hot water over it and your coffee appears.

And when I first discovered them, I thought they were a revelation.

I didn't realize, of of course that it's just

Sanka or you know it's just flavor crystals or whatever America has had instant coffee for

years but growing up I didn't have coffee until I moved to Seattle and so I never experienced

coffee that comes in cans. I mean that's the coffee that the adults drank when I was growing up but I never had it.

It was only it was only espresso like that was my introduction.

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