Hello. Hi John. Hi John. Hi, Merlin. How's it going? Well, we're starting off this podcast with me in motion and moving from this room to that room.

I'm carrying my whole podcast studio with me.

Geez.

Yeah, it's very complicated here today.

There's a complicated Sonic posture to the to the whole estate.

Okay.

Are you going to clue us on what has made the posture and what in particular made it complicated?

Yeah.

Yeah.

So, uh, so I was working on my house this summer and I did the thing where you know where I had a thing that I wanted to do it wasn't an easy fix. I wanted to fix the

front porch which had which had sustained quite a bit of weather damage and and I

felt like I was equal to the task. My carpentry was equal to the task. So I began to work on the on the porch and I got I got to a place where I needed to tear some stuff apart.

And you know I get a little zealous, I get a little obsessed and I continue to tear the thing apart because I kept finding things

that needed to be remediated. And then I tore the whole porch part. Oh boy. And then I studied

it for a couple of weeks. I studied the problem. A lot of people will tell you there's a lot

to carpenter. Everybody knows that you need good tools, you need to measure twice, all that kind of stuff. But sometimes you just need to

look at where your ports used to be. That's a big part of carpentry.

Yeah it is and I had a little bench there. Some look at where a ports used to be and

say why and I say why not why not right that's right that's

right that's what Bobby Kennedy was talking about I right before Sirhan Sirhan

killed soon so I have a little park bench there that also needs repair that I was going to get to right after

the porch and I would sit on the broken park bench and survey the damage that I'd done.

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