Hello. Hey John.

Hi John.

Hi Merlin.

How's it going?

Good.

Mm. It's good here too. I've been busy. I've been recording podcasts on a little bit

winded. You are a podcast recorder.

Mm-hmm. It's alluh. It's all happening right here. It's I just yeah. Yeah. I hear I hear from a lot of people about your

podcasts. Yeah, I don't like using that word. Podcasts or people?

Nobody's found a better one.

But you know?

Yeah, it's so isn't, doesn't sound ugly?

It kind of sounds like poop.

I tried to, for a while, coin, you may recall, when we first started doing this I tried to

separate it and make it into two words pod cast yeah and I got some angry letters

from Germany oh is it a term of art there? Well, I don't know what their problem was. I never know what the German's problem is, but these guys were like, no nicked.

I guess I'm sorry.

You know, I just it, I think maybe they didn't like the affectation or I don't know what.

I don't know what.

You know, we kid kid we kid about our

listeners but I just I want to stipulate to the people of Germany there are there's

nobody who's more tolerant of the crap of the Shiza that we give them than the Germans

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