Hello. Hey John. I'm

I'm Merlin. How's it going?

It's going pretty well. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. I've just been on the internet this morning arguing about

the Beatles with some dingolings. Hmm. I want to hear about that. I thought you were explaining

the universe to your daughter today.

Oh well I started doing that and then it made me think that I needed that what was more important

was to straighten out some dingolings on the topic of obedience top of the beatings.

Yeah, I was trying to, you know, I got the globe out.

She said, where does the sun go?

And that seemed like a reasonable question. So I got the globe out and I got a

baseball and I said here's the earth and here's where we live and the moon goes around the earth like this baseball. But the sun and

then I took a headlamp and I put the headlamp on and I stood far away from the

globe and I was pointing the headlamp at Seattle and I said,

when the sun shines on Seattle, it's because it's a big fiery ball that's far away, but then the globe turns and you're you don't see the

sun because it's on the other side but then the baseball of the moon can always see the sun and so the baseball and then I'm

shining the headlamp on the baseball. I'm like see Seattle's in the dark but the

baseball can see the sun.

And then she said, why do we live on a ball?

And I felt like that was a really good question.

And the more I thought about it the less I even had a

pithy answer for why we live on a ball and eventually I said we were born on a ball.

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