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Slack.com slash THQ. Greetings to you, my beautiful, sweet human family. You're listening

to a new dad. I just had my second son. Why? Obviously, I didn't have my son, but I went

through a very long, beautiful labor process with my very beautiful, very fertile goddess

wife, who's breasts are now dripping streams of golden milk that my second son is suckling

at. I'm in the garden of Eden over here. That means that we're not going to have some

kind of complex intros for the next month or so. We're just going to cannonball right

into the episode. I'm going to take paternity leave so I can enjoy the incredible psychedelic,

primordial time-destroying experience of being a parent to a newborn. Today's guest is

a dear friend of mine. I went to college with him. Not only did I go to college with him,

I traveled through India with him and Emel Ames, the musician who sometimes shows up on

the DTFH. We parted ways, and David McClain had a pretty hair-raising experience in India,

which you can read about in his first book, The Answer to the Riddle is Me. It's one of

my favorite, I guess you'd call it an adventure travel book, meets like William Burrow's naked

lunch. That's all I'm going to say about it. Just trust me. It's really good. He has

outdone himself again with his newest book, A novel called How I Learned to Hate in Ohio.

It's a beautiful, beautiful book. I hope that you will order both of his books. Before

you do that, strap in my sweet darlings and welcome back to the DTFH, The Brilliant

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