Hey, John.

Hi, Merlin.

How's it going?

God, that's early.

Did you have a busy morning?

It's not even 10.30 yet.

I'm sorry.

We're starting earlier than usual, by which I mean we didn't delay it as much as usual.

Yeah, well, I feel like there's a little bit of mission creep, and we're just getting earlier and earlier.

We're going to be recording this podcast at 7.30 in the morning.

I don't want to hurt the evergreen long live nature of our program because I think it'll

be helping people potentially for millennia.

Yeah.

But first of all, we always record at 10 a.m. on Wednesdays, unless you're traveling with the retinue. But I think we need to

officially move to 1035. Would that help? 1035. Are you on the West Coast right now? I'm on the

West Coast. So it feels like seven. 1035 on the West Coast feels like seven.

It really does.

I was just reading that Hunter S. Thompson used to wake up at 3 p.m.

And then he did just so much cocaine.

He was, to use your phrase that I've picked up here, I think he was gacked out on cocaine for a lot of the day.

Yeah, you know, I have considered, I've picked up here. I think he was gacked out on cocaine for a lot of the day. Yeah, I, you know, I have considered, I've considered a lot of different speedy remedies to my,

to my, uh, problem of not wanting to wake up. But all of they, they all contribute to my problem

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