Hello. Hi John. Hi John. Hi, Merlin. How are you? It to these increasingly early I was going to ask you how you're adjusting to these increasingly early

recording times I like them as I get older and older it's nice to it's nice to get up a little early.

I like to have the evenings free to move my bowels.

I had a very interesting experience today.

I went to my taco bus where I normally go.

But usually at night you go to the taco bus and it's just all volvos lined up out front.

It's just people in in little software designer glasses with

their with fleece pants and they're all lined up to get tacos but during the

day you go at lunchtime and, and it's all guys covered in sheet rock dust.

Wow.

Right, everybody in there is Hispanic.

The TV is playing, or I guess Latino is the preferred

nomenclature. The TV is playing some novellas and it's a it's a real it's a real downtown scene during the day well I

walk on the bus and I'm carrying my daughter and I have never felt like such a rock star in my life because you know usually you get on a bus and there's like 15 middle-aged Mexican guys on there.

You know, maybe you're going to nod to a couple of guys as you walk through.

But for the most part, it's going to be a, you know, it's going to be a pretty neutral scene.

But I walked on the bus carrying this little two-year-old and every man on the bus smiled at me with the most genuine smile of friendship and brotherhood.

And I was like completely bold over, you you hear stories that that in the in Mexican

culture and Latino culture that the role of the father the idea of the family is very strong, but had never experienced it so profoundly

as I did today, walking, carrying my little girl, I felt like I was walking through a receiving line.

I almost high-fived everybody.

With your free hand.

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