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Hello. Hey, John. Hi, Merlin. How's it going? Pretty good. What's the matter?

Merlin, man. John. Oh, no, things are good. Things are good. You know, it's one of those, it's just one of those, like, how good can things be? You know what I mean? Yeah. How good can they be really? Yeah. There's a comet. There's a comet coming. There's a meteor, giant meteor, going to wipe us out. Wow, I didn't know about this. Yeah. How good can we feel? Is that a BuzzFeed thing? Should I catch up on that?

Tell you what. If you were on Reddit, you would know I... You've got to get off the Reddit, John.

I've never been on Reddit. Oh. Can you believe that?

I follow a Tumblr site that puts up pictures of cute animals from that site, but that's about it.

Yeah, every once in a while someone says I should do an AMA from Reddit.

I thought you were going to do one. I thought I saw you scheduled for one of those.

I don't think I ever was, but in any case, I don't understand the interface. I look at Reddit and it looks, you know, it looks like an organizational chart. Yeah.

Or like, like an outline for

a term paper. Yeah, it's

got a tree format. A tree

format, right. And you know what?

When I first got on the internet,

1990

aught seven.

And I would go on the news groups,

or rather I would go to the internet,

I would go to a place where people were on the internet,

and I would look over their shoulder while they were on the news groups.

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