Hello.

Hi, John.

Oh, it's you, Merlin.

You sound great, and you're coming through the right A-V.

Yeah, yeah.

Well, you know what I did when the phone rang? I was like, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. What, get all the buttons. And I was like, how does this button? Oh, right, right, right. I have to put that button. So I was ready. I was ready. I was 100% ready. You know, the answer here, John, automation.

You should make some little robots that control your world.

Well, here's the problem.

Yeah.

I believe I was talking to you earlier about the Apogee Quartet that I'm using.

I use an Apogee device just on Friday, and I didn't even know it was an Applegy device until I looked. Oh, congratulations. I used the dingus that turns a guitar cable into a USB. I did not know about that dingus, but I'm interested. You know what it is, John? It's real clean. You know what I'm saying? It's real clean. You don't have to mess with other hardware. Sure, you go straight into the board. I can play my pop songs. Woo! I even hooked up a MIDI keyboard. I got it all going on. Well, the thing about this... Tell me about your apogee. This is the one, and just to be clear, for our listeners. Hello and welcome. Hi there. Please don't address the listeners. They, this was sent to you by I, Heart Sign Radio. Yes. When you did your, your podcast with Jeopardy Man for a while there on their network. Yes. Because they said, you need to, well, they say, go to the next level,

probably,

right?

Let's go to the next level.

You got to heart your radio more.

This Apogee Quartet,

it's got the real good,

like analog to digital converters.

I don't even think people use that term anymore.

But whatever it is,

it's an interface.

And it has this curious thing i've talked to you about the big knob uh philosophies right the big knob you know remind me because i think i might be real into it well there's a there was a

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