Hello, I'm David Kern.

I'm Heidi White.

And I'm Ian Andrews.

And you are listening to Close Reads, a podcast for the Incurable Reader, on which we are discussing a more toll's novel, a gentleman in Moscow.

If you come this far with us, you know that already, though, because we are here to discuss the second half of book three which means

that we are well into the second half of the novel itself of the book itself Ian was just saying

as we were getting started here before we officially entered the zone that is the show

how much good stuff there is here so we're going to talk about that here in just a

second. Ian, how are you though? Doing great. Yeah, I'm excited to get this is a cool job, guys. I get to

get online and talk about friends. That's so fun. So thank you to all your listeners for being

willing to listen to us, do this, which is what we do to do even if you weren't listening.

I mean, I just do it for the money because I'm...

Yeah.

Wait, we're getting paid for this?

There's so much money.

I mean, a little bit.

I love it.

So, Ian, how are you feeling about the Seattle Mariners right now?

Dude, pretty, pretty elated.

Although confession time, they broke my heart so many times as a child that I kind of... It's hard to trust again.

You've been guarding it. Yeah, I've been guarding, that's exactly right. I've been guarding my heart.

My heart has grown calcified. It's been calloused over. How many more sea words can I think of to describe the hardness of my heart towards the Mariners? And now, it's complicated. You know, to love it all

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