Hello.

Hi, John.

Hi, Merlin.

How's it going?

Good.

Good.

Are you, Merlin?

You know.

Have you been squirreling?

Have you been squirreling away some facts about curling?

Oh, I see. Um, visited Berlin.

Uh-huh. Have you visited Berlin?

Yeah. I mean, it's pronounced Berlin, but we dropped the G in southwest Ohio. You ever drop

G? We do that out here. Yeah, we do that out here a lot. Are you drop D. Yeah, you like drop D so you can do a cinnamon girl, yeah. I do drop G when I'm playing a seventh string guitar. Neither of those things is real. Nice try. Thank you. Try to get one past the goalie, I understand. Mm-hmm. There's no such thing as drop G

and there's no such thing

as a seven-string guitar.

You're talking about one of those fucking

Wackadoo Bach lutes that's like a Jimmy Page lute? Are you seriously right now going to tell me there's not such a thing as a seven-string guitar? I know there's a baritone guitar. No, I want you to Google seven string guitar.

I don't look at the internet when I'm speaking to you, John.

It's out of respect.

Out of an abundance of respect and caution.

Thank you.

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