We're back. We're back. It's a distraction. I'm Drew. That's raw. How are you doing Roth?

I'm good, man. You know me. Feeling good. How are you?

That sounded so genuine when you said it. Yeah. Do you want me to do it again with less energy? Would that be useful? No, you know, no, I'm doing good too because it's, it's just boiling hot now, like around here,

like, like, there's a little bit of spring, but at some point, like, they just, God just flips

the switch and it's instantly July and you're just, your balls are stuck to your thigh and all that

fun stuff. But I realized, and this is from one of the commenters of Defector this week,

like, they were like, hey, he knows anyone else's like your SAT getting worse as the years go on?

And it hit me your right thing. It's my old man before he died. His SAT got worse every year.

Now, he was living up where I was, I was always telling him, don't live where it's fucking cold,

but whatever. He, they wouldn't do that. But also, I had a shit winner too, and I kept blaming it

on the news because why wouldn't I, correct? Yeah. But I do think, I do, I do think I got the

seasonal affect. I would not have been ingesting quite as much cannabis, uh, as I was ingesting all winter long. Yeah, I don't know what I would not have been ingesting quite as much cannabis as I was ingesting all winter long.

Yeah, I don't know what I would have been doing if I didn't have the winner that I had.

But I can't put it all on seasonal affective disorder.

I don't want to pivot too quickly to what we're actually going to talk about in our guests.

But I will say when I hosted with Kelsey, when you were doing the

grand tour of the Northeastern liberal arts scene with your family, she and I were both really

kind of bullish and kind of, you know, talking about how much fun we were having now that baseball

was back and we were feeling so much better. That was one week ago. And I am now back, like, it's basically the same mood that I had in February. Like, I've watched the Mets score one run in the last nine days. And at this point, it's just like, fuck me up. The sun could be going down at 4.25 p.m. again, for all I know. Yeah, but that's, that's on you. Isn't it? I mean, is it, though? I feel like it's more Mark Vietos. I feel like he deserves a lot of the responsibility. I think it's extremely on you, but baseball is back, and you know who else is back? Mike Schur, Michael sure is back on the podcast. And not only is Michael back on the podcast, but he has a new book. It's coming out in like three weeks.

It's called Big Fan. And he, before the podcast, he did tell us that it is, in fact, a novelization of the Patent Oswald film from a few years ago.

So congratulations on getting that gig. I told you the opposite of that. I told you it wasn't that. You must have misheard me.

Oh. I'm someone who did a fourth, I did a book report in fourth grade on the novelization of Robocop.

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