Hello. Hi, John.

Hi, Merlin.

How are you?

I'm fine. How are you?

Feeling somewhat muted.

You're feeling muted?

Yeah, just, you know, a little reserved.

You're feeling a little bit low ebb.

Midnight storm.

You're listening to Daddy-O records.

I'm sitting here reading the lyrics to Della Sol's hit song, The Magic Number. I think that's uh out of print now i don't know

if you can't even buy that who what didn't they have a giant problem with clearing their samples

oh is that but oh i i blame gilbert o' Sullivan see that's an example of a clear situation where sampling produced a masterwork and all should

kneel.

I stand,

I stand corrected.

You can buy it.

I just remember there's a time where it was, it was kind of hard to get.

Yeah.

But that's a hell of a record.

That was, that was an amazing summer.

You want to, you want to think about this for a second?

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