Hello. Hey John. Hi Merlin. How's it going? Good. Yeah. it's early. It is early. I don't have enough coffee. I just got a coffee, but I don't like it. It's not a good coffee. Yeah, I have that problem a lot, but I can look, I can overlook it in situations like this where it's early.

Seems like in your line of work, you of all I mean as as well again I

would cut this out if we have to but but a man of your stature who's learned to

harden himself to the world in so many unnecessary ways. It seems to me that in your line of work

you can't afford to become a coffee snob. You're surrounded by a certain kind of coffee snobbery and

yet as a man who you don't know where you're going to

wake up tomorrow you might need to go on the run you might need to go play a gig

somewhere you might be at a holiday and express mhm right you need your

coffee right no right you need your coffee but you can't sit around and spend three hours like trying to find an

artisanal coffee place.

I might be at a holiday and express where the breakfast consists of a crescent.

Like a little piece of the moon.

A crescent and some some jam and jelly but that is all sort of in the

marmalade family no no raspberry jam just like orange jam.

Can I just be really honest with you, John?

I don't want to live on any fucking continent

where that's a breakfast.

I'm afraid that the only place that that is a breakfast

is in the American middle section. section really like if you go to Europe

you've been to Europe like numerous times you go and that's that is the titular

continent of the breakfast is that is that accurate yes well the so the continental

breakfast does have the, I'm sorry, even the word makes me angry and

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