Hey, you there, Sean?

Yeah, I'm here. I'm here.

I won't even play any mandolin on this whole thing.

You can play a little at the end.

Let me know.

Just give me like a cool, like, hand sign when it's time to do an interstitial.

Like maybe like the not the okay sign.

That's rude.

Like in the studio, you're like behind the class and you're just giving me a thumbs up.

Like you ever listen to the song Maggot Brain by Funkadelic?

Yeah.

You know that fucking solo that he nails at the beginning?

Apparently the, uh, the producer was like, he's like, what am I supposed to play on guitar here to start this song off?

He's like, I don't care what you're playing, man.

Just play it like your mama just died.

And then he just fucking hits that solo, like the first tape.

Just fucking nails it.

That's what I want you. I want you to be that producer giving me a thumbs up

from behind the class when you want an interstitial. Yeah, but if you mess up the solo, I'm going to

give you a thumbs down. Stroke or no stroke? That's no excuse. Yeah, that's fine. I just watched

Gladiator the other day, so the stakes of that are really high. I had to watch Gladiator 1, you know, to see what all the hype's about with Gladiator 2.

Yeah, I enjoy that alternate history of the proletarian revolution in ancient Rome.

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