Hello. Hey, John. Hi, Merlin. How's it going? Oh, busy. Busy. Ooh, you all, uh, you 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, you know, I, I read these, uh, I was about to say I read autobiographies of it of important people, but that's a lie. I read, um, I read reviews of autobiographies in The New Yorker

by important people of important people. And all these biographies make important people

sound like they are just going, going, going, going, going, going. They do more in like a week

than you and I could do in two lifetimes.

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

pitching this. They're writing a script. 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, yeah. And they sleep four hours a day and they feel rested and vibrant and the way 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.

I saw this.

And 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 all this busyness and, 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

busyness. 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, I have no interest in writing an autobiography.

You're going to need an office for that.

And as long as we're talking about it, I'll just say that a lot of those people, probably Benjamin Franklin, notwithstanding, a lot of those people have handlers. They have handlers, they have schedulers, they have assistance, and they've given themselves over, and they just, you know, basic Bill Murray, right? What time and what do I wear? They just show up and somebody points them somewhere, clips a mic on them, and they start talking.

Yeah, you're exactly right.

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