Hello.

Hi, John.

Hi, Merlin.

How's it going?

Uh, things are going good.

I'm, uh, I'm sitting here dressed in my, uh in my Hawkeye Pierce outfit, which is to say, a wet kimono.

A baseball hat from Merrill Field Airport.

Some slippers.

Are you recently bathed? Yeah, I just got out of the bathtub. I got out of the bathtub specifically to do this podcast. My God, the things that you give up for this, John. I know. Do you want some time to find some kind of thirsty or apparel? No, no, I'm fine. I'm just, you know, I'm off gassing a little bit and just, just getting in the zone.

Is it like silky?

My skin.

Your kimono.

Oh, no, it's a, you know, it's a cotton kimono.

You know, it's just various shades of blue flowers, large blue flowers.

I, I'm not, I'm not, I really, here's what I want.

I want to live in a world where I dress in kimonos, but I do not live in that world.

It's another world I want to live in that I don't live in.

You mean like where people wouldn't look askance?

Like if you go to the bank to cash check and you're wearing a wet kimono, nobody's going to say anything.

Well, you know, I wouldn't wear a wet kimono to the bank.

Not a first.

But like a big, like a big kimono and some like wooden sandals and just sort of you know but not i wouldn't have a top knot or anything i'd be wearing a baseball hat like a normal guy but just like in a

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