Hello. Hi, John. Wow. That's Merlin. How's it going? Well, what do you know? Oh, top of the morning.

Hey, hey, hi. Hi there. Hello, greetings. Hello. Yes. Well, well, shucks. shuck-y-darn. Yeah. Shucky darn and slop the chickens. That's right. That's it. In a nutshell. You're back. Back on land, back in the world, the world is not the same. I can almost promise you. I know you think about me a lot, but I can pretty much promise you that for the last 10 days, I have thought about you a great deal more than you probably thought about me.

You cannot underestimate the number of people that came up to me on the cruise ship and said a lot of different kinds of gravy here, am I right?

When they came up to you, how close did

they get? We at some point, very early on on the cruise, you know, we first got on the cruise.

Well, when we were... What it happened was? What happened was. First you're in a helicopter,

and then you're on a hovercraft. We got to Florida, and it was not clear that we were going to get on the cruise.

You know, Hodgman was held off the boat because he'd been to Italy.

And I had just come from Seattle, you know, where the...

Hotbed.

Where it was a hotbed.

Hotbed. And so... Jump back. I want to disinfect myself. How! Wow! So as we were going down to the boat, you know, at any point, Holland America could have said, uh, nobody from Seattle. Or the whole thing is canceled. Mm-hmm. Uh, but we... probably would have been a really good idea.

With the wisdom of retrospect, seems like.

But I'm the cuck.

I'm the one sitting here worrying, wringing my hands.

You guys are fine.

Everybody got off boat.

I don't know why you've left behind definite articles.

But when you get off boat, everybody's like, wow, I'm really glad. I guess we were safe for out there. Meat, mump. It was. Fuck you. I've been shy. I've been literally shitting myself for 10 days thinking that everybody I like is going to die and turn into some kind of fucking pirates of the Caribbean attraction. Well, now, wait, the story's not over. Yo, it's dying at sea for me. Anything could happen, day. We totally waltzed on. The thing is that, you know, the cruise has gotten more and more professional as time goes on. And so the old days... Sorry, the running of the Joko part or the Holland America contribution?

The running of the Joko part.

Yeah, this is not their first day.

Not anymore.

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