Hey everybody. This is Connor Lestoka, and this is 372 pages. We'll never get back. I am joined by Mike Nelson, whose name I somehow managed to mispronounce after 18 years of knowing him on the first take of this introduction.

It's really not a tough one either. That's the thing. Yours? I'm sure yours is just destroyed. What's the worst pronunciation you've ever had?

Lastowwaka, just inserting random letters. Lastow waka, like Konar, people used to even say before that was a

carner oberst uh you know normalized it for everybody but i am when i used to do phone i was a

i'm sorry this i think is a new job i was a collection agent for a while

phone collections you know your your bill is overdue you You deadbeat pay us, that kind of stuff.

Seems like the least effective way to get that to work, by the way.

It wasn't how we did it.

Anyway, you had to say, by law, you have to say your actual name.

You can't be like, you know, this is a mad dog here, you know, which I wanted to, of course.

Right.

But so I had to say Michael Nelson by law.

And then everyone would go, Mike O. Nelson?

I'm like, I don't, it's not an Irish name.

I've never heard of the O. Nelson's.

They probably thought that was like, you know, uh, you know,

the, like if you're a cop, you have to tell me. If, if they misheard your name, then that's, you know,

they read it on, you know, Reddit slash sovereign citizen to get out of, uh, drop serve, drop serve.

Anyway, all right. Well, there's all sorts of ways to get out of petty lawsuits and money you owe people.

We'll talk about that on our sub-padcast on the Patreon.

But we're here today to announce our 30th book that we're reading on here, The Dirty 30.

And that's just a stark number.

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