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up guys? What's up guys? Welcome to another episode of Bro history. It is Henry Zamota and today we will be joined by Joe Solis Mullen and

Joe's going to be coming on and he's going to be talking about his favorite books, which honestly is going to be a lot more interesting

than you think it is because it always is fun to learn about new books and Joe's awesome and basically what happened. Danny is not going to be on

today's show. Danny's traveling and I am currently in the process of moving.

So today is May 18th as I record this introduction.

Joe and I recorded this show a couple days ago before I moved and Joe actually came on a short notice as a favor because Danny and I

schedules are just swamped my schedule I just moved into my house. We are expecting the

countdown is coming so Monday this upcoming Monday so the 22nd is my wife's

due date for our first so everything is happening so

what fast right now and you know it's it's difficult needless to say, to prioritize putting out podcast episodes of Bro history.

So I told Joe that, Joe being a father understood that and he kind of jumped at first swim to just have a conversation that we would honestly have all fair anyway so I figured,

hey Joe, why don't we just record this and you're an excellent book recommender,

so why don't we just talk about your favorite books and I think people will get a lot out of that.

So Joe is awesome. And another thing I just want to give fair

warning so we're obviously going to try to put out episodes over the next couple of

weeks it's going to be hard. I'm just being

blunt about that. It's going to be difficult to find time to record with the new little one coming and with the new house. We still have a little bit of well not a little bit I wish it was a little bit we still have work to do here so we're going to try our hardest but let's just say if there's a week or two

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