Hello. Hey John. Hi, Merlin. How's it going? Oh, busy. Oh, I'm Merlin. How's it going? Oh, busy.

O, you all, uh, he stacked up. Oh, I'm so busy. You're so busy.

I'm not used to it. You know, I shouldn't say this, but I am not very busy in general and when I get busy it's extremely stressful to me

Yeah, I'm not used to it and and you know I I read these

I was about to say I read autographies of important people but that's a lie. I read

reviews of autobiographies in the New Yorker by important people of people.

And all these biographies make important people sound like they are just going, going,

go and go and going.

They do more in like a week than you and I could do in two lifetimes.

Yeah, important people are just, they're so busy. People in Hollywood are busy, they're

pitching this, they're writing a script, they're.

I heard this, I think I was half listening, which is really the only way to listen to NPR, and I think

they said that the sitting president has something like five campaign appearances in the next four hours

I haven't been five places in 48 hours in my whole life yeah yeah then they sleep four hours a day

and they feel rested and vibrant and away they go. I got up this morning at 7 o'clock in the

morning and I got in a car, my car, and I drove into the town. all the people the other people were also driving into the town the other people in their cars and I was appalled.

Yeah, they were using my roads first of all.

Yeah.

But uh, but all this busyness and and uh, and then I had to go there and then I

had to go there and then the person I was I was seeing was like well can you come back this afternoon

I was like no I'm busy I have I have a lot of busyness so I don't know if I don't know if I'm suited for this all this business I mean I know that that's what you have to do in order to

Get someone get the New Yorker to write a review of your autobiography or your biography I guess I have no interest in writing an

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