Did you know I wrote a sci-fi fantasy novel called The Clim and you can get the whole thing as a nine hour audio book read by this guy over at the Patreon shop.

Patreon.com slash small bean slash shop.

Robert Brockway calls it weird, heartbreaking and very, very funny, and Daniel O'Brien calls

it quite possibly Michael Swam's masterpiece. You can find a three hour free sample

by digging through the feed for an episode called The Clim Audio Book, Mike's

SciFi novel, and if you get hooked again again go buy the whole thing at Patreon.com

slash small beans slash shop.

Hello everyone and welcome back to Tales from the Pit. I'm your intrep at host and

Pittsman Mr. Michael Matthew Swam and in case you're joining us midstream we're

doing a series which I think is going to end up being a quadrility

about child rearing because my partner Jen and I are heavily considering having children.

You know what, I'm just gonna spoil it.

We are pregnant, we are having children, we're having a kid.

I debated, I mean, I knew I going to announce it at some time during the

course of this series but I think now makes sense because this is a chaos-filled

episode, it's the penultimate episode and the next episode will be about having grown children and the whole like

You know expanse of child rearing past this But this one feels appropriate because this one's called

In It and yes, I know, congratulations. Thank you, thank you. Yep, the Dick

Works. We're about two trimesters in as of this recording.

More about that later.

But right now, you should know that I started the series talking to Abe Epperson, fellow Big Bean, who doesn't have kids and

doesn't care about that. And then we talk to Tom and Marina Riemann, who at the

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