Hello?

Hi, John.

Hi, Merlin.

Hi, Merlin, my good pal.

How's it going?

Good.

I'm having a treat.

Right now?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I kind of want to say, because, you know, I mean, play it, play it, play it, say it. You know, they used to say in radio, you know. Sure. Is it a baby back ribs? Is it a big platter of baby back ribs? Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum. I'm not, I'm not going to sing the song. It's too early. I, um... What's your treat?

I'm having a thing I don't usually have, which is a soft drink.

It's loaded with, it's loaded with actual sugar.

And have you ever had Henry Winehart's orange cream, cream soda?

Oh, I have.

You know, it's made with cane sugar.

You know, that's from Oregon, or it was.

Shut your mouth. Let me find out about that. When I was growing up, it's got a lot of calories.

It does. It does. It's got, let's see, 43 grams added sugars. So. And then what I do is I top it off

with just a splurp of seltzer water. Gives it a little bit of extra zaz. You know, it can be too much, especially if it starts to go flat. You know, it gets a little, some people really like that taste, but, uh, that's what I'm having to have a treat. It's not something I have. It cuts the sugar out. It cuts the sugar down a little if you put some seltzer in there. It becomes a health drink.

Whoa.

Hey, you know what orange is, a fruit? That's right. There you go. There's a fruit or vegetables. Is that one of those things? I think it's a fruit. Yeah. Yeah. It's not a fungus. You know, the mango is the most popular fruit in the world. According to whom?

According to the Trivial Pursof-seat entertainment game that I played on an

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