Hello. Hey John. Hi Merlin. How's it going? Pretty good. Pretty good. A little bit sick. It's a little early in the morning.

Come on. I thought we were over this. You know I thought so too, but I but I you know I went to the Oregon coast. I was walking on the beach in the

winter in the night. And the sick mites got me. It blew up my nose. The flu cusums. But it's not the flu that's right. But it's not so bad. I feel like I feel like I'm kind of through the worst of it.

You sound pretty good considering.

Yeah, I woke up at, I went to bed at like, like 4 o'clock in the morning and I said, is you know which is not doing too good but but uh... but i but i but i felt

i felt confident it's a new year this is this is this is this four o'clock in the morning

thing is not going to be the regular pattern.

And I was like, listen, I'm going to sleep till 11, and that is going to be seven hours of

sleep, and that is fine.

That's a good, that's how I'm going to run tomorrow and then I woke up at 745 in the morning

just just woke right up bolt upright yeah and I was like I woke right up and I was and I was humming a song by whole

M its world. And it was no good and I was like I

I hate you forever for mentioning that because now it's in my head too.

I tried to go back to sleep but I made my bed I'll lie in it I made my bed. So gross. But you know a busy day busy I got a lot of stuff going on.

What are you doing what are you so busy with? People are barely back at work and you're out there is this is part of the new

political regime is this part of the new political

regime is this your new media 3.0 career what's going on? It's my immediate

3.0 career I decided I decided that the last week of last year that I was going to hire somebody.

Oh, you ready for this?

I can't wait to hear. There's so many things you could use help with I

decided that I needed help and that for so long I've been waiting for help to arrive and help you know help would come

around help would come help would be outside the fence and it would be kind of

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