Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello, Merlin. Hello. Hello. It's a podcast. Yeah, it's a podcast. Hey, it's a podcast me. Merlin, man. Hey, everybody.

Today, I want to talk to you for real about an issue that's affecting us. Yeah, tell us more. Tell us more, man. Yeah, man.

A lot of things out there. I don't think what they seem right now. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You're so right. Yeah, man.

You haven't meet a puppet in front of you. That wouldn't a puppet. A lot of fake puppets out there. What? What? Keep your head on a swivel.

I don't know. Oh, man. False puppets. Um, I'm still. Whoa.

I have, I have a, I have a liminal space somewhere between sleep and meditation. Worry. Um, it's, uh, it's a practice.

And sometimes I just like to sit with that for a minute and then that makes me late. To be in the liminal space. Huh?

To be in the liminal space. Well, if I've got two fresh limbs, yes. Uh, yeah. Well, earlier today you sent me a message that said, let's, uh,

No, no, what it said was it was four, four total five characters. Four new rules and a question mark. That's right. What I

mean is that put this in a fancier box that meets 11 30 to say was, Hey, man, can we push, push the recording of our show till 11 30.

But no, it just said 11 30 and I saw it when I rolled over at 10 45 and looked at my phone to see what

Bucking Merlin again with this like 11 30. I got it bullshit. And so what did I say? What was my reply? Um, let's share my eyes.

There's still crusty. Let's see. I think you said, uh, no punctuation because, because we don't do that anymore.

You said sounds good. Sounds good. Did I capitalize S? You did. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe that was a auto. Yeah. Yeah.

You're probably, yeah, you're, I think you're also supposed to include an emoji that doesn't confuse or concern me.

No, no, no, no, no, this sounds good. Sounds good. Or you're just not supposed to. Okay, or K, I think. Oh, did I tell you this?

No, I have a friend. I have a friend who works for like, for, that's right. It's a girl. Whoa, um, works for a founder led startup.

Um, and the founder is from a, uh, Eastern European country. This is going to get that person in trouble. No.

And when, uh, and when, uh, my friend would send messages to the, to the CEO, the leader of the startup, the leader of the startup and founded.

Uh, often they were letters, uh, did we talk about this already where he would reply, he would reply, act.

Oh, maybe. I mean, it sounds, hang on. That was deep nice. It sounds like more of a Ken, but it could be me. Um, we've had at least three episodes where we've talked about, um, founder led control works, control words. Oh, sorry. It was at least five where we talked about founder led startups.

And listen, I don't want to take you off this critical act issue, but act. I would never work in a startup that wasn't led founder. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's how you know it's good.

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