Hello. Hey John!

Hi, Merlin. How's it going?

Good.

I just walked in the door.

Oh, where were you? If you can say. I went to the swimming pool. Hmm.

And I did some swimming.

Wow.

Yeah, it's not it's not a thing that I'm I'm not a very good swimmer frankly.

Are you graceful in the water?

I'm I'm, I am a graceful bobber.

I'm a good bobber.

But you know, when I start to swim, it's a combination of like yeah two things you wouldn't think go together boredom and panic

You have no idea

How you can be pretty much my whole life.

How you can be on the verge of panic and yet also bored shitless.

But that is swimming to me.

That's a whole body exercise.

Yeah, that's right. It's a body and soul.

I spend the whole time like, you know, choking back just a freak out, pure freak out.

And you know, I've swam my whole life, there's no reason I should be such a bad,

like the psychology of swimming is just, I don't know.

Are you, are you naturally buoyant? No no I think like a stone and I had a couple of experiences one time in Greece. I swam out around the you know there was a big there was a big rock big real big rock and I

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