Hello? Hi John. I'm Merlin. How is it going? I'm Merlin. How is it going?

It's a little bit tenuous.

Yeah, there's a little bit of tenuousness because my rig.

Oh, my podcasting rig. I think I'm getting it though. I think I'm getting the tenuosity out of it.

You sound, you sound tremendous. Oh, thank you. You do. Well, that feels good when someone says you sound tremendous?

Well you sound like you might be inside of like a costly shag rug.

You're very well buffeted.

You sound good. Sometimes when you're at your Venice Beach location, it's a little

echoy. Yeah. In this case, it sounds like you're inside of like a really expensive cardboard box.

It sounds good. Yes. Yes. Yes. Are you doing something different? You know what every week is different because

because I feel like so much the same and yet somehow different.

Yeah, you know, here I am talking on my podcast pal, T.M.

And, you know, I feel like every week we shuck off a certain amount of skin flakes.

Dander.

Things inside of us die and are replaced by other things.

Hakunaatata.

Stuff cycles around, it goes in, it comes out.

And so why, why should I be podcasting from the same location same fashion every week?

I'm barely the same person I was two weeks ago. Yeah, yeah, the you that you were two weeks ago is like in your air conditioning filter at this point.

Exactly. Finger nails grow, fingernails get bitten off, they grow again.

To everything, turn everything turn turn turn.

That's right my eyelashes go out into my mouth somehow and then I you know

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