Hello.

Hi, John.

Hi, Merlin.

Oh, you sound really good today.

Do I?

Mm-hmm.

You do anything different?

Well, I feel that, you know, using Marco's criteria,

today's going to be a little bit of a rough background

noise day.

Okay.

Because, you know, he doesn't like background noise.

And I've got, so the Washington State College, the Cougars people across the street who are rehabilitating Jamaica's house.

They have one of those little mini-cats out there today.

Oh, of course.

So they're minicatin.

And then it's that season in Seattle when the sun comes out and all the airplanes go into the sky at once.

Because everybody here that wants to be in an airplane says, this is my moment.

It's airplane season.

It's airplane season, big time.

So from a background noise standpoint, I mean, just a few moments ago, I was like, how's this going to work?

Because they were unloading the minicat and some kind of like Paraguayan demonstration, jet demonstration team was flying overhead. I was like, this is going to be interesting. All those Paraguans, they love the demonstrations. They really do. They love the, they want to put on a show. It's part of their culture. Yeah. Well, apologies if, I don't know, I assume Marco listens to the show. I think he did at one point. But, you know, Marco, I'm sorry. It's, it's hard. I was on a show recently where one of the sides of the recording

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