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Get it now at instapaper.com or search for insta paper in the app store. Hello. Hi John.

I'm Merlin.

I'm Merlin.

How are you?

I'm good.

You sound some subdued. Hmm. Well, it's so early.

Hmm. We're recording on a different day than usual and it's exactly the same time we usually record, which is 20 minutes late.

20 minutes after we agreed to meet.

Yeah, but the fact that it's a different day makes it feel really early.

Hmm.

Do you do anything differently to prepare for the show for

our recording? Do you do any kind of stretches or have any special angle once you apply?

What I do to prepare for our show is I wake up earlier than I normally would that is the preparation that I have I'm so sorry

No, no, it's perfectly fine. I should wake up before

noon I should wake up before noon. Well I should be a good father. You're a great father.

You know what I have really mixed emotions about this first of all I am sorry

you are sorry that's your primary emotion though that's a great word is poorly I

love when people say poorly yeah yeah yeah they say it on Deadwood a lot. I think it's the way people

used to say, I think maybe English people still say it, I'm poorly today. Oh, I'm poorly, yeah.

Or like, you know, I'm feeling poorly, you know, feeling poorly would be like the way my grandfather would say it.

Well, it's like the fashion that swept our great nation to respond to the question, how are you doing doing well instead of good

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