Hello. Hi John. Hi John. Hi John. Hi, Merlin. How's it going? Good. I'm sorry that I'm late.

You're pretty close.

Pretty close, but still late.

Our listeners don't actually know when we started recording unless we tell them.

Oh, I see, I see what you're saying.

But that's, I appreciate the courtesy.

Well, I mean, I know that... Do you feel it affects the show?

When I'm late or what time it is?

Sure. Well, I think it does affect the show on the long on the long hall if you if you feel like I can't reliably be in the chair hooked up with all the life support systems

plugged in at the time that you have set through multiple calendar

and that you agreed to that I have set based on your request.

And so this is a prior patch of your own design. You know a little

bit of the little lateness is just it's bad form it's bad form yeah want to be, you know, I want to be Johnny on the spot. It's

named after me. Oh, oh no, that's so much pressure. It really is, right?

I have relatively few things like that.

Yeah.

Uh...

It's like Merlin go to market or whatever.

Merlin go to market strategy. Yeah, that's what they say down in S.V. as we call it.

Down in old S.V.

Oh, S.V. we call it.

I learned an excellent new word today that I think might be useful to you. Yeah. There's a

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