Hello. Hi, John. Hi, Merlin. How's it going? Are you disassembling your microphone with

a tiny screwdriver? There's a bulldozer. There's a bulldozer across the alley.

Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. That sounds like a butthole, sir, for some. And so I'm doing what I

cause the alley and it's really, really loud. I've been, you know, I've been recording the last

couple of weeks from Hawaii, old school, which is. Is that true?

Mm-hmm. Huh? Sorry, I was doing a bid, I apologize.

Ha! I actually knew that. No, that was good. Thanks. Okay, yes, yes, and.

Oh, it got me in it. It wrote me in. Uh-huh, uh-huh. That's how you know it's working.

So, so I'm, so I was in a, I was recording from my bed, which is what, which is what I do in those

situations. I'd like to record from bed. Mm-hmm. And, uh, yeah, I just put the, I

probably, you propped up like a patient. Yeah, propped up like a patient. Mm-hmm. I've got my

little, my little preamp. I've got my microphone. I got two turn tables. Mm-hmm. I got, uh, behind the ones

and twos. Uh-huh. Mm-hmm. I got, uh, I got everything I need. I got a paddle ball game.

Mm-hmm. Favorite chair. And, uh, so, so I, I'm all in that mode anyway. And there's bulldozer

cross the alley. I figure why not just record from bed. So, but it's a little, I see. You're always

going somewhere. Yeah. Well, except for when you're laying in bed, did you work? And then I think,

well, you know, shit, I could, uh, I could just record from bed all the time. I used to, I used to

record from wherever the hell. So that, that, that picture, that photo I've seen of you in bed with

a microphone talking, that, that's not a, that wasn't like a promo shot. That was an, an action shot.

I was talking to you. You, you did that. You're talking to me. I was talking to you in that picture.

Huh. It looks important. Mm-hmm. But, yeah. It does that kind of, with all respect. Because,

obviously, you're, uh, somebody who loves podcasts on a sion of the industry. Yes. You're

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