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Hello, and welcome back to big mood, little mood. I am your host, Daniel M library. And with me in the studio this week is Miles Clee, a senior staff writer for Mel Magazine, as well as author of the novel Ivy Land.

And a collection of stories, true false. Miles, welcome to the show. Thank you so much, Danny. It's great to be here.

I think if you so much as also someone whose job is like assembling tide pools occasionally of people getting mad at you on the line.

In like the gentlest way imaginable. And then sort of just like picking out starfish and looking at them and be like, oh, that's interesting. And then moving on.

Yeah, I guess the other nature metaphor would just be like poking various bears and seeing what happens.

Bears and starfish. That's that's kind of like the milieu that I associate you at. So I am very excited for that reason to have you here.

Especially because this is a rare week where there are no horrible problems. I think that anyone's facing you.

No one's no one's facing like a life or death issue or like I have to stop talking to everyone I'm related to, which is a really nice break.

So I feel like we get the luxury this week of really exploring the space as they say.

Little problems count too. Yeah, yeah.

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