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Welcome to the plodcast. This is episode 161.

Great to have you with us. Thank you for paying attention.

People sometimes thank me for the things I put out,

and I thank them in return. No, no, thank you for paying attention because that's the hard part.

So I want to begin by talking about my latest book that just came out, Ride Sally Ride.

One of my grandkids just recently finished reading it and he commented that it was awfully cheerful for a

dystopia. Yeah, okay. This book, Ride Sally Ride, is set a few decades in the future.

The Old America is hanging by a thread. Basically the Old America is a legal fiction by this point.

The Red States and the Blue States are still technically together, but they're about ready to blow apart.

The description is it's a book about True Love and the crack up of the United States.

So this is a crack-up that spirals into absurdity at a number of different

points, which is precisely where we are.

I set the book a few decades in the future and some people looking at it are considering what I was saying.

What do you mean a few decades?

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