Hi, John.

Hi, Merlin.

How's it going?

Good.

How are you?

Yeah, I'm very well.

That's good.

It's so early.

I just got a phone call from the local public radio station.

Hmm.

And they wanted to know if I would come on a panel today to talk about whether or not

Amazon.com's new bubbles that they built in Seattle are going to be an icon like the space

needle.

You might need to bring me up to speed here.

I am not totally up to date on the, what are you, the Emerald City? What are you called? Jet City. Well, we were the Jet City. That was a very cool name. Yeah. And I think an organic name, Jet City. Jet City. We'll let you go without a fight. Yeah, we made the jets here. Yep, yep, yep, yep. And then once you're a jet, you're always a jet.

Is Emerald City, is that, is that Oregon?

No, Emerald City is something, it's a nickname that came about as the result of a, like, one of those,

let's take suggestions from the audience type of things where they're like hey what should we call our city

and people think we're like we already have a name jet city and they were oh let's call it emerald city

and it's like who said that you know hey you the back, stand up. Why did you say that?

And they're like, I don't work for a publicity firm.

Don't mind me, you know.

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