Hello.

Hi, John.

Oh, hi, Merlin.

You'll never find as long as you live.

Someone who podcasts with you.

Tender like I do.

You know, the part that I like is, because I'm listening to it.

I got this Philly Soul list.

I've been listening to you a lot.

Which, you know, I've been gathering string about that since, oh gosh, since John Oates was knee knee high to a grasshopper. Sure, sure. But I've returned to it. Did you say, your oats? I'm Oats. I was kind of thinking of Michael Keaton. Like, I'm Batman. Have I never told you the I'm Oats anecdote? I'm writing it down. I want to hear that? Oh, wait, okay. I, oh, I'm going to guess that involves you and Sean. Are you flipping back through the pages? I've got a lot. Okay, fucking, you piece of shit. I'm going to, you're going to have to look at this with your eyes now. Okay. Because you think I'm being a smarty pants and I'm not. I was literally, and you know what? I'll take a shot on my Spotify so you can see what I was listening to. And you know, believe me. I love Philly Soul. No, I absolutely. When have I ever doubted you? No, not that. But I was, I was saying, the point is, like that's one of those songs where, I don't know if you were a radio kid

the way,

I was singing, the point is, like, that's one of those songs where, I don't know, if you were a radio kid the way I was a radio kid around that time, because I was a little older. But, like, man, I listened to the radio all day. Like, any time I could have AM radio on, I was listening to it. Music stations usually.

And... The music stations.

Well, as opposed to like WLW, listen to the Reds, which we listen to as well.

Or WCKY with easy listening music, you know, over on the FM.

I listened to easy listening music.

I'm writing this down.

Oh, shit.

Now I've got to take another photo.

This is...

Is this infinite recursion?

I'm writing this. Okay, every time I want to prove that, okay, but see now I'm going to have to hold up a newspaper after all this time. Anyway, but of course, there are the songs you hear. Like, it feels like thousands of times that, like, I will, I never need to hear Rock the Boat by corporation ever again because I heard it enough baby the boat over 1976 I heard that song plenty enough times

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