Hello?

Hi, John.

Hi, Merlin.

How's it going?

Good.

Good. Is it early?

It's pretty early. I've not been going to sleep on time at the right time.

Huh. I went to sleep at five at the right time. Oh.

I went to sleep at 5 in the morning, and it's too early to wake up if you go to sleep at 5 in the morning.

Yeah.

Yeah.

No reason either.

No reason.

It's not like, I mean, midichlorians.

The only reason I can think of.

Have you been tested for that, be honest?

I'm pretty high up in the midichlorians. I'm not surprised at all. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's weird. You're really smart friends. It says, oh, I just got an IQ test. I mean, IQ's like 780 or whatever. Maybe that's a C2. I don't know. Yeah, 780 and math. 780, 781, like real good. And you go like, I'm not surprised because you seem really smart. In your case, I bet you could wield the powers of the force with an almost singular level of focus. Well, the problem is I didn't get into my training when I was young. You got to get them when they're young.

That's what they say.

Yeah, that's right.

And the problem is, you know, once they realized I had so many mitochondrins, I didn't, it was too late.

If you went, if you were, if you got into the academy with the younglings, I think you would be considered, at my college, they would call you a non-traditional student,

which is a way of saying older than you're supposed to be for Jedi schools. That's exactly right. That's exactly right. But you know what? Sometimes those students are the best. They really enjoy their education. Oh, sometimes. Hell, man. Woof. They're always the hardest working because, you know, they really want it. and they're probably paying for it out of their own pocket.

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