Hello. Hey John.

Hey John.

Hi Merlin. How's it going?

Good.

Good. I just texted you and I said good to go and you responded real. Real good to go. You've been traveling a lot lately. Have you been traveling a lot lately. Have you been picking up new

internet jargon? Well you know you wouldn't have to be traveling to pick up new

internet jargon. That's a very very good point. But this is the provincial

thinking that I bring to this conversation. Well I know you

also think that the internet is in person and that when you go around you're just seeing

different internets. Yeah I mean know, corporations can be people.

Yeah, of course.

Yeah, plants can be people.

Hmm.

We have a plant.

Um, so, uh, how's it going?

You all right? Oh, yeah, pretty much much have we not talked in a long time feels like a

not talked in a long time it seems like a long time um I'm going to come up with a name for how I find out whether you're recording or not and it's a

it's a process.

Mm-hmm okay involves me texting you texting members of your family and your circle is John okay.

It's John okay. That's a popular text. Yeah I mean you ghost me sometimes which is normal but like I hadn't heard from you in a while

and I was getting a little bit frantic because I had to do a little bit of a reschege yeah and I was

getting worried I started I texted your baby mama I was looking at your Instagram because because sometimes I can get a little bit Sherlock Holmes

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