Hello.

Hi, John.

Oh, hey there, Merlin.

How's it going?

Oh.

Woo!

Yeah, I'm feeling it.

Whoop-do.

Whoop-do.

Uppadoo, as we say.

Oh.

Reporting here from, uh, from coronavirus ground zero. I wasn't going to say anything. Yeah. And now I'm going to say something. You got you got the coronavirus, right? You got to. Well, everybody does. Everybody does. It's the thing. It's the thing that's going around. King County, baby. Woof. Wash your hands. Yeah, that's what they say. Stop picking your nose and eating it. I'm not going to stop eating my nose. It's early. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue you know what I'm saying I just you know I I have a lot I well I'm not going to get into it I have a lot of selfish concerns

I have selfish concerns about travel that we have planned and stuff like that. But I think my biggest, most selfish thing is I am not looking forward to a situation where all three of us have to be in the house for an unknown amount of time. Yeah. Yeah. That's, I mean, I like those folks a lot,

but I think the key to happiness in any relationship is knowing when certain parts of the

experience will end. Sure. Yeah. It was an important part is some people have to go out of the

house sometimes. Hmm. I see now, now me, I'm fine just being in the house. Well, but you've got your office. You can go down there and close the door. Oh, I know. I am, I'm slathered in privilege. I think about it all the time. Every time I get miffed about how people are abusing my areas at the house your areas and boy i could talk a lot about how

people get into my area things that are known to be you don't put things in the area where my seltzer goes in the fridge daddy's area in the fridge you know daddy's seat on the couch is always daddy's seat on the couch don't put your iPad there and don't put you there no don't put you there. You know, that's where all my stuff is. It's the, I'm like the Captain Kirk of that room.

That's, that's where all my stuff is. I'm like the Captain Kirk of that room. That's, that's where I, you know, bring it up on screen, like open a comm channel, that kind of thing. Yeah, open a com channel, precisely, precisely, pretty small. You got the calm. I say to my wife and she goes, why do you keep saying that? Yeah, stop saying that, sweetie. He makes it hard to love you. I was supposed to go to Japan.

Why the fuck would you go to Japan? Why would anyone go to Japan? I mean, some of the people would be Japanese and would be there already, but I was going to go there. So I'm leaving on the Joko cruise in six days.

Wait. Wait. And they're like, whoa, wait a minute. You know, like you might not get into the Dominican Republic. I have so many questions. You just redirected the whole show. Okay.

Hodgman's been texting me like, are you ready to just be on this boat with me for 90 days?

Wow. I don't know.

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