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Hello?

Hi, John.

Hi, Merlin.

How's it going?

Oh, I'm going to have to do a little, I'm going to have to do a little hot plug here. You know? Yeah. Here we go. I'm going to hot plug. Here we go. I'm not supposed to do that. Yeah. It'll be fine. Oh, wait a minute. Hold on. Hot plug. Did I hot plug it?

I did. I got it. You sound good. It didn't used to work. It used to hurt your computer to do that. Oh, yeah. It depends on what you're plugging in. And one imagines how hot it is. Right, right, right, right. Well, that was the thing that was always confusing about it. some of the things were not hot at all, but still you hot plug it and then you lose all your memory.

I've known people. Right, right, right, right. Well, that was the thing that was always confusing about it. Some of the things were not hot at all, but still you hot plug it and then you lose all your memory.

I've known people who like to dare the fates and to hot plug things that oughtn't be hot plugged or hot unplugged, unhapugged.

Do you ever lose any data? You ever know anybody that lost any data?

Oh, I've lost data.

You have?

Oh, yeah. I mean, back in the day, it was a real big deal.

But like today, people like, oh, I'll just pull up this USB thumb drive because it's an SSD

and who cares. But...

I say that all the time.

It's going to work until it doesn't work. That's what I say. You know what I'm saying? I still have that hard drive that I couldn't get to work and some nice person wrote me and said, hey, I work on those. I'll fix it for you. Send it to me. I'm in Scotland. And I was like, I just don't know about sending this broken hard drive to Scotland and back. I mean, you know, there's probably at least one concerning thing on there that you

wouldn't want a Scott to see.

Don't give your info to Scott.

I don't, you know, I don't, hmm.

Wait, now, are you thinking about going off on Scotland?

Or data?

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