Hello, hi, John. Oh, hi. Hi, Merlin. Oh, how are you? Good. Sound good. It's not really

good. Down, down, down. Yeah, you sound good. Sound very Merlin-y. Thank you. Yeah, of course.

You know, you know, you know me, right? Uh-huh. Uh-huh. I don't like talking about the show on the show.

You know, you know, I don't like to flirt too heavily with the notion of continuity between our

episodes. And I don't want to, I don't want to reopen a wound, although I think the wound never

closed. Can we talk more about dropping the thread? Oh, let's talk more about dropping the thread.

Well, I got lots of other things too. Um, I, uh, well, you've got some thoughts. What are your thoughts?

I watched a documentary last night about Nirvana influencing Britain and Britain influencing Nirvana.

I could talk about music, but the thread thing has been dogging me. Oh, really? Yeah. But now you

maybe, why me and it's Eric all over again. Now you got me thinking about it. And I mean, it's not

like I didn't notice before. But now I'm taking what I'm talking about here is on a previous episode

of this program. I don't want to speak for you. Jump in, but you said something along the lines.

You can fast that you have a situation you're dealing with. Yeah. Where you, you, you, you, you,

find or discover that you've lost a thread. Lost that you've, that you forgot. Well, in this

instance of this program, that, that, uh, from time to time, you start, uh, telling an anecdote,

you pivot and let's be honest, we pivot hard. You pivot. And then, and then some amount of time later,

you, you kind of feel like you, you forgot why you started talking about something. Is that

is that close? Well, it's not from time to time. It's only just recently. And it's, it's now,

it's happening now, but you're aware of it happening often enough that it's become a pattern

you're aware of. Well, because, um, I, I, thanks to you, honestly, I podcast, I podcast, I podcast,

I podcast, I'm sorry. Thanks to, thanks to you. Yeah. I podcast. I've been thinking about this a lot

because, um, I've got, I've dug, I've dug back into the book about the long walk.

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