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Hi John.

Hi, Merlin.

How's it going?

Well, I woke up this morning, I went downstairs, you know, you and I pushed back

the beginning of our podcast as a matter of routine. I should do.

But I always assume that you are pushing back the start time because you have many things to do in the morning.

You have to get some hot dogs, you have to go to the post office. Walgreens. Walgreens, you have to go to the post office.

Walgreens.

Walgreens, you have to go to Walgreens.

I am always pushing it back because I'm still asleep and I look at my phone and I go,

oh God, it's time to do it.

I push back, pushback.

So this morning I went downstairs, I made a pot of coffee. I

realized I didn't have any cream and so I had to use vanilla ice cream. And as good as that sounds, I don't like to start my day with a with

vanilla ice cream in my coffee.

That's that's nice as an option when it comes up and you're in the mood, but I mean that's like having to eat popcorn for breakfast.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. I'm not celebrating this. I mean, there's a vanilla taste now to my coffee and that is a little

little bit like like sissy coffee. Sissy coffee and it's it screws up your

coffee workflow because there's you're introducing well I don't tell you this you're living it

You're introducing a whole new level of temperature and flavor and texture

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