Hello. Hi, John. Oh, hello, Merlin. How are you today? Well, I'm a little early. I'm two minutes early from our appointed time.

You're amazing. Thank you. You're amazing. Well, you know, it's raining out. Oh, you know, that always

throws me off.

It does it.

It changes my schedule completely.

Do you have specifics on that?

See, I would allow just the concept of rain as being a kind of an existential rejoinder.

What's rain mean for you?

Well, when I wake up and the first thing I hear is rain, I'm going to need an extra five minutes.

Just because rain.

Well, yeah, just because rain.

I mean, I have to sit.

I have to listen to the rain.

I have to, you know, kind of snuggle a little bit more with my with my own uh blanket i think sometimes sometimes the rain is telling one something but not always and so part of it is realizing listening

especially if it hasn't rained in a few days or weeks or whatever, is the rain trying to tell me something?

You know, listening, am I right?

Shh, listen to the rain.

You know, we should listen to...

Touch rain.

To rain.

Yeah, that's right.

Touch rain.

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