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This is episode 162. We're recording on Thursday, June 16th. I'm

Rebecca Shinsky. I'm here with Jeff O'Neill. We're coming to you from

Book Riot.com. Happy Blooms Day. Oh, right, yeah, that's a thing.

The Blooms Day. 616, the Blooms Day, 616.

Have you read Ulysses?

I have not, and I don't think I'm ever going.

No, okay.

I totally understand. I just finished a book about the trial of Ulysses, which is, you know, how Ulysses came to America. It's super interesting. Ulysses amazing, but it's impossible and crazy and whatever, but you know I think it is, it's, it's a book. There's no other book that has a day, is there?

Like there's a, I'm trying to, I'm trying to, I'm trying to, we have Towle Day for.

Towle Day, okay yeah, May 25th for Hitchhiker's guide.

Okay, that's another one, you got me, there's one more.

Yeah. Um, I guess, you know, what's another one. You got me. There's one more. Yeah. I guess what's the one that you guys always talk about at Empire Records? What's the thing?

Oh, Rex Manning Day. It's interesting, you know, that in these these we all consume these books and movies and but there's very few specific dates attached to things.

Yeah, there's I when whatever the day is that Marty McFly goes to in the future? Oh, October 25, 1985.

I think that's what it is.

And then when he goes like into the future

is sometime in like 2015, I think.

Oh yeah, and then is October 25, 1955. I think it's October 20th, 1955. I think it's October 20th.

And because I remember last year people being like,

this is the day that Marty McFly came to in the future.

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