Greetings. Greetings, one and all. This is 372 pages. We'll never get back. I am Michael J. Nelson. Tell him who you are.

I'm Connor Lestoga. Mike. Oh, hi, Connor. Yeah, good to see you. Good to talk to you.

Yeah, nice to talk to you. Wish it was under better circumstances. Yeah, I was going to say, yes, indeed.

It seems like every time we talk, there's something bad that we have to talk about.

Yeah, it's like we just only run into each other at funerals.

Yes.

But no, we're making our way through.

This is the podcast where we talk about bad books.

So that's probably the reason

why now that I think of it. And we're making our way through a very, very, very terrible,

bad, horrible, awful book called Ready Player 2. It is the Alexander's Day of Books.

It is the no good, very bad, horrible best-selling book.

Yeah, but there's been a few developments.

Well, a notable development.

Why don't we just launch into that before getting into the meat of this thing?

And we have all the, we have the departments again, right?

Of course.

Of course.

We're going to do real or fanfic.

We have mail from listeners. You have dumb sentences. Dumb sentences galore. And I believe there's something from the dark web that we dug out. So we'll have to. Oh. Yeah. Explore that. Great. I'll hit you with that as a surprise at some point in time. Great. Well, I'll start and then you can, because I don't have the, there's an email involved

here.

But I had a meeting with our, regular Rift Tracks meeting, for those who don't know,

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