Hey, everyone.

This is 372 pages.

We'll never get back.

Michael J. Nelson here. And believe it or not,

I'm on a microphone again with Connor Lestoka. Connor, how are you? What's going on, man?

We talked like eight hours ago. It's, I know, I couldn't even fake that.

I know. It's like we have the tin cans struck between our tree house or something.

Yeah, yeah.

It's Bart and what's his friend?

Mill House?

Millhouse, that's right.

I was going to say Newman.

My world is so messed up.

Bart and Newman would be a good pair.

Hello, Mill House.

Hello.

Yeah, so this is the podcast where Connor and I talk about bad books. Yeah. It's, you know, a lot of people are saying like, you know, this is your time. This is your time to write your King Lear. This is your time to, you know, get that project, you know, out of your head and onto the page now that everyone houses this free time. But it's like, we're just, we're still reading bad books.

We're still reading Dan Brown. Like, that's what the, that's where that energy that could be going to, you know, compose our symphony is going. Yeah, there's a famous, I don't know if this

is anecdotal, but one of the saints or something like St. Anselm or something, one of the early patrons of the church, he said, what would you do if Jesus came back today? And he said, I would go back to tending my garden, meaning I'm fine. And we would say, I would go back to reading Dan Brown's digital fortress. I would keep refreshing Dwight David Thrash's Amazon page to see if he had a release a 14th volume. Yes. So that's what we're doing. But hey, I stand by it. Yeah, why not? It's, you know, we're lucky that things have not changed too much for us. So glad that we can keep doing this. Because honestly, you know, if there was a, you know, this would be the first thing to go if I was in any sort of like perilous situation. Like, you know, no, I'm not going to read a bad book. I'm going to like, you know, go out and pound the pavement. I'm going to turn my mind to higher things. Obviously. So, yeah. Nope. Glad we can do this together, everybody.

But yeah, we're reading.

Dan Brown's Digital Fortress is the current book on the docket, and we're, I don't know, like a tenth of the way through it at this point in time.

We read 37 chapters for this time.

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