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Hello?

Hi, John.

Hi, Merlin, man.

How's it going, John Roderick?

Good. Does anybody ever call you Merlin Meng?

Merlin Mang.

You know, I don't get that one too much.

Yeah.

I was telling my daughter that you're one of a very small handful of people who still call me Merle. Oh. And she's heard that name like twice ever. She thinks it's really weird. Merle. Merle. Because we've been to the comic shop and talked to the guy at the comic shop. The, that's not, he doesn't, he's not technically the owner, although he's kind of the owner. you know, it's a co-op. But the owner's name is Christian. And, uh,

and, he's not he doesn't he's not technically the owner although he's kind of the owner you know it's co-op but the owner's name is christian and uh and so he's a little bit younger than me but he came

up at a time where people go oh like sister christian who so as soon as he discovered that

night ranger was coming out with a song called sister he preemptively told people to call him Chris. Oh. And that got us talking about the name thing. He knew that. He knew that. Even then, he knew to say, I'd better get ahead of this. Yeah. Yeah, he got in front of his skis on now, which I think is kind of smart. Don't tell me who love me, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, exactly. And so who calls you

Merrill? You, uh, my lady friend, sometimes. She doesn't really refer to me by name. It doesn't

come up very much. But it's kind of a, it's kind of like a familiar, familial, familial, familial, familial, familia.

From familia, yeah, mm-hmm.

Sounds like a kind of Italian cheese.

Formilia.

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