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Hello.

Hi, John. Hi, Merlin. How's it going? Good. How are you? I'm doing great.

Wow, you do. You sound great. Yes. I've decided that I'm peppy. Today or permanently? Oh, I don't know. You know, just try to look on the bright side of life.

You know what I'm saying?

Yeah, I mean, that lasted for a minute or two there.

Yep, yep. You just keep looking at the chimneys. You know what I'm saying? Looking at the chimneys. That's what they say. They say, look at the chimneys. when you're walking around, most people will, like, stare at the ground or stare at the middle distance.

Try to remember to look up.

Look at the chimneys.

It will...

I'll look at the chimneys.

You look at the chimneys.

It'll elevate your mood. Yeah, you'll see the chimney. Chimbley sweeps. Barrow boy. Oh, yeah. Look at the chimneys. I don't know. It's like diets. Who knows if those things actually work?

Looking at the chimneys. Looking at the chimneys. But if you tell yourself it works, it might work. Yeah, smile when you sing. That's right. And smile when you're talking to the phone. Nause as good as a wink to a blind bat. Is that right? Smile when you're talking to the phone? I guess so.

That's my mom.

Try that.

My mom said that she's in sales.

She learned that when you're talking on the phone? I guess so. That's my mom. Try that. My mom said that she's in sales. She learned that when you're talking to someone's smile. Yeah. How does this? Is this podcast sound better? It sounds like two deranged clowns trying to sound happy. It sounds pretty good now that we're both smiling. I wonder if we could do the whole show like this. I bet we could. I bet from now on if we just smiled through the whole show, it would be a much more enjoyable... We sound scared. We sound very scared.

Have you noticed that... I may have mentioned this before, but if you listen to a sportscaster

talking about sports... the uh the sound that they make is the same

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