Hello, hi John. Hi, Merlin. How's it going? Good. I haven't talked to you in a long time. No, you've been busy. I was busy. I was busy with COVID.

Yeah. Oh, man. You want to talk about COVID? Yeah, I never had it before and then I got it. Okay. I finally got it after almost a year. That's how they get you. That's how they got me.

I was so embarrassed when I got COVID. Not as embarrassed as Marco Armett because Marco Armett got it really early. Back when we were all really trying really hard not to catch COVID and then he felt guilty about it.

And I was like, oh, I thought I'm a bitch. I'll never get COVID because I don't go any place, but I guess my family does. Yeah, I thought I was never going to get it because I'd been it been so long. Yeah, and then I haven't got in. Well, can we and this is not. We missed a couple of weeks recording just because it worked out that way. The second one was because you had COVID. Are you willing to? Are you open to discussing what? Why? We didn't do the one before that. And because it wasn't related.

Well, so the one we didn't do before that was because I was in Disneyland, which is awesome. It was great. Disneyland is great. Everything that they say about Disneyland being hard to do is also true, but totally worth it. Totally great. And we had a wonderful time. And Matt Matt, how is there right now? And he just posted something that said that he learned two new things about Disney World that something about the best hurricanes.

I guess that the Durant Hurricane, the best hurricanes are in New Orleans Square and that the Golden Gate Bridge has an earthquake every five minutes. No, it does not. Well, you know, what did he say? You know, laughter plus time equals comedy or tragedy? I don't know.

Tragedy plus time is comedy. Yeah, that's just why I don't have friends. Yeah, I keep getting it backwards. I know. You're like laughter.

You should have seen anybody remember laughter 9-11. I was killing because I bet. Oh, it was way too soon. Yeah, you had a lot of good material. It's so much good material. And the thing is a lot of people were like, oh, I'm sorry. I'm busy. I'm crying.

Rainbow room is where my parents met. And I'm up there doing like a solid, you know, I was like Bernard Shaw that day. I just showed up and did the work.

I think I still have some writing I did on 9-11 or probably 9-12 where I was really digging into it, you know, really thinking it through. Oh, you were already like kind of getting in front of it. Oh, I was thinking it through. And I had a lot of, I had some deep thoughts.

And it turned out none of my I turned out a lot of my deep thoughts were impressions in the sense that I saw the coming storm.

My 9-11 in terms of the first couple days was to find largely by. I don't know if you know about this. I know you've had jobs, but I don't know if you've ever had a lot of this kind of job.

It was something where I had to help my boss who was helping his boss because she couldn't get a flight out of town. And so a lot of what we did help their boss. Oh, yeah.

A lot of what we did was like sitting around in her hotel room talking about how this inconvenience, how the inconvenience all was for her.

She couldn't get back to tell a house. Oh, I know tell a house. It's a capital city. It's right there. You got a rent a car.

Capital's got balls. No, I was I was a member of the whole like, well, what if we didn't do anything?

There were a lot of deep thoughts. It's best that probably we're not widely shared amongst all of it. A lot of us had a as we say in England, a lot of us had

reckons about what was going on and why? Yeah, a lot of reckoning. That's right.

Did you reckon that you find yourself by the 12th and I would like to get back to COVID? We haven't talked at all about Hitler.

What how are you feeling on the 12th? Were you feeling insightful?

I was. Yeah, I was doing quite a bit of reckoning. I was doing some deep thoughts by Jack candy. I was thinking it all through because we

thinking laterally, because if I know you, and I think I was before I knew you, but I bet you were thinking laterally, I bet you were making

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