I'm not superstitious, but I'm, I am a little stitious.

Hey, we're recording the podcast.

Shut up.

Good morning to you, wherever you are, because it is morning somewhere.

For November 29th, 2000, 24, super late on that one. My name is Bernie Burns. That's okay. We've got tripped a fan in our system. Sitting right over there. It's Ashley Burns. Say hi to Ashley, everybody. Good morning and happy Friday. I didn't even give you a little pithy intro today because you are in a grumpitude mood for some reason. I'm just not up for it.

I'm so grumpy right now. He argued with me about the dumbest thing today. We're talking about... I argued with you about multiple dumb things and it's the beginning of the morning. I don't know what happened. I was just like, I got up early. I got the kids ready for school and everything like that. And you showed up and you were like grumpid to fron, fron, frum, yeah, Bernie's catching strays.

He's just like, got the kids ready for school and everything like that. And you showed up and

you were like, grump, fron, fron, yeah, Bernie's catching strays. He's just like, he's just like, glad you acknowledged that. He's just living here and I'm like, what's wrong with you? That's okay. We all have mornings like that. That happens. Yeah. Well, look, it's, I'm coming down from a lot of emotional highs.

I finally caught up on Stormlight Archive,

so I'm ready to go for the new book, Bernie.

It's been a real journey, okay?

Have we? coming down from a lot of emotional highs. I finally caught up on Stormlight Archive, so I'm

ready to go for the new book. It's been a real journey, okay? Have we ever identified that

feeling of when you finish a book, that weird, melancholy feeling? Didn't we determine that there was

a book hangover? There's like a word for that? Like, there should be a word in German, right?

I'm sure there is. So you finish a book and you feel happy and accomplished, but also really

kind of empty and sad inside. Well, there's, there's something a little bit different too,

though, when I feel like when I read the last book in a series and it's like over, over,

that is a different feeling than when I am all caught up and now I'm waiting for the next thing. Like there's, there's an element of anticipation when the series isn't finished. When you, when you turn the last page on a series that is finished and you know that like that world is complete for you, that's a different feeling. Until they make a new one. So Germans weigh in.

I feel, right. Germans weigh in. Hey, you know, that's the phrase for 2024. Hey, Germans weigh in on this. Well, look, there's a word in German for everything. You compound enough of words and you get something in German that is like very specific, right? They have that for just about everything. And so, and Germans, weighing if there's a word for that in books.

If there's a word for just about everything. And so, and Germans,

wait in if there's a word for that in books. If there's a word for that in books. Yeah, like,

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