Hello.

Oh, hi, Merlin. How are you doing?

I'm good. Apparently I'm breaking news.

You want to break news? This time it was my turn to be on the show floor at the podcast.

Oh, you know, you were reporting live from the show floor. Did you get a chance to interview

young Ben Shapiro? No, you know, Ben and I didn't spend any time this

together. Really? You didn't like, you didn't like, you know, stand next to him at a

urinal and talk about how chicks are dicks or whatever. So here's the weird thing.

Is I just to show you how wide reaching, you know, Ben Shapiro's influences.

I'd never heard of him first. He's basically doing a national reach round.

Well, I never heard of him before. I didn't know who he was.

Wow. And I have a brag.

Everyone else seems to know who he was. So I was at, so taking a step back,

I was at the podcast movement conference in Dallas, Texas last week.

Did they call it the PM for short? You know, they do. And when I was a little boy,

they didn't want people saying stuff like that. They shouldn't name it.

What did you call, I think we talked about this. What did you call a papoo when you were

growing up? A papoo? Oh, no. We called Farts Noises. I'll tell you, but it's a little

personal. It seems personal to talk like it like, like this seems really personal to

talk about that. It's extremely personal. I don't know. I don't, I'll talk about

poop anytime. I got an IBT. What am I going to do? Right.

What are you going to do? Throw your interiq aspirin at me. So my grandfather,

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