Hello, hello, Merlin. How are you today? I'm very well, dad. How are you? I'm doing great. Everything is

I'm doing great. Everything is perfect here. Hmm. That sounds suspicious.

How are you? Not perfect. No. We'll get you there. We'll get you there. One step. Oh no, I know. I'm fine. I think, you know, I'm zen like chocolate, man.

Oh nice. I'm always in the zone. The old days. I'm always in the zone and not in the zone. Yeah, chocolate. Yeah. Hmm. Hmm.

Hmm. Hmm. How's the morning there? Are you doing good? Yeah, pretty good. Pretty good. I feel like I you always think if you wake up early, even by accident, that if you wake up early, that somehow you'll have extra time and you can you can do one or two extra little things.

But anytime that I do that, if I wake up a little early, I find I'm actually wind up being later. And I don't know why I don't know how that happens, but that's what happens. That's that sounds very difficult to explain. It's like closets though. You always find a way to fill them up. Yeah. So like if I so like here's a normally I wake up at six.

And today for some reason before the alarm 545, I just woke up and I in a way I was like, oh, this is good because I'm up a little bit early. I wind up being early. So instead of rushing at the end, I will be like I'll have some luxury time on maybe able to sit and drink a little bit of coffee at the breakfast table instead of just going through the motions of everything that I need to do to get out the door at seven.

But I was actually like five minutes late. I don't know how that happens, but it happens every time that I wake up early.

You've talked before I think on your program with John Roderick about how you have what you regard as an uncanny sense of what time it is. Oh, yeah. I think I have something very similar.

I'm not sure it might be an availability here is to because I only kind of mentally reward myself when I get it right. But I wonder if that throws off your system.

If you're if you're if you're essentially throwing out your intuitive ability to know what time it is because it's darker out because you know you've got more time. I wonder if you're less harried.

And somehow that makes you, you know, less intuitive about the time. And then you feel rushed. I absolutely think you're on to something there.

I woke up at 530. I woke up early today. I don't like that. I don't usually get up that early. For a reason or your mind just woke up.

No, I had a reason. I had a very long and complicated dream about Anne Hathaway. And it was not a simple dream. And like most of my dreams I woke up feeling very, very guilty. And so I figure I should get up and have some coffee, get a shower, wash it off.

Yeah, clean yourself. We went to Princeton together. You and I know no and and halfway in the dream in the dream. Okay.

And a very rocky relationship. It was my fault. My fault. I'll admit that. Yeah. I couldn't get into Princeton. I've lived into New Jersey maybe twice. I couldn't find it on a map. Yeah. Yeah.

So that was my morning. I've been having lots of really really strange dreams about dark-haired women. I think I might be turning into Ron Swanson.

Enjoy a good breakfast. Do you watch Parks and Rec Dan? Have you started watching that program yet? No, I've never I know the character you're referring to and that he like he likes.

Me and other things. So I like the character. I've seen him do other things in that character. But I watch the first few episodes of the show.

And we I think we've talked about how if the first few episodes don't grab you then you you know if you don't have a lot of a chorus of people saying give it a chance give it time.

Sure. Yeah. Yeah. And I walk. Well, here's me in Jason Snell talking about Buffy mode. And I don't do a very good Jason Snell voice. But yeah. The first season is not that good. Well, you can stick with it. He doesn't actually say, well, but you know, that's just my impersonation.

But no, the first season. I think the first season is very entertaining. It's more entertaining once you watch the other ones. But I don't want to commit you to say I don't want to commit you to seven seasons of our program.

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