Hello, hi, John. Hi, Merlin. The Skype ring was so chill this morning. I don't know what

my settings are, but it was just like really viby. Huh? Huh? Are you sick? You sound

like you got a little cold. No, you don't want to say it's fine.

For the first time in what, four years. Really? My daughter came home from her polluted

little school. Ruth. And was like, I have a stuff you know is daddy wipe, wipe sneeze.

And I said, you know what happens is that you and your mother get sick for two days. And

then I get the same thing and I'm sick for 14 days. Yeah, you're very vulnerable to these

things. There's other ways in which your don't seem vulnerable, but it seems to me that cold

type things have historically gotten you. And now that everything's back to normal, John,

we're back to normal. Yeah. Everybody's walking around, shucking in, jiving. Yeah, they are.

There's little fucking sponges. With all due respect, they're a little fucking sponges.

Yeah, they are. You know, and they bring sickness into your home. And they touch so much.

Licking door knobs. And I guess they don't have to wear masks anymore. I would have had them wear

masks the rest of their lives. Cut down on all that high school kissing. Oh, yeah, public

public display of affection. PDA, they call it. Yeah. But so here I am. And I'm just sick and how far

in are you? Well, it started probably, you know, her mom's out of town for two weeks. So she and I

have just been, you know, having a good old time. And then probably Friday. Oh, John, are you

okay to do the program? Oh, yeah, you know, I'm not some kind of Benjamin that cancels the show

when he's got sniffle. Okay. Oh, good. Oh, okay. He's back. It's everybody. It's a comedy cough,

but it's also a real one. You know, I was so scared because if you recall, I was several years

ago in the in the Aloha era. You know, I was I was having panic. And a lot of the panic was

triggered by sick by feeling like I like I couldn't clear my nose or my ears, you know, the claustrophobia

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