Welcome, everybody, the 372 pages will never get back.

I am Connor Lestoka.

I am joined by Mike Nelson to read yet another bad book in this bad book podcast.

Mike, how's it going?

It is going very well.

I'm smizing right now.

I purposely struck a different tone on that intro.

I realize that my go-to when we're doing these is to act like people have been saying funny stuff off the off mic and then we're coming in.

I'm sort of doing like a hey, hey, everybody, how's it going?

Right.

Type of thing, which is obviously affected.

But I think last time we recorded with Bob, I realized that happened.

And when you watch yourself and listen to yourself talk, you notice those type of things.

Oh, I never watch or listen to myself talk. Horrible experience.

Yes. I mean, if there are mirrors around, I do my best to avoid those as well.

Yeah, yeah. I have a route through my house where I can avoid any mirror. I am truly like a vampire.

You've taken Prince's thing of nobody can look you in the eye to the next

to the next level. Right. Even my beloved wife calls, she doesn't look me in the eyes and she goes,

hey man. She doesn't call me by my name because otherwise I'd have her fired. Deeply weird.

Yeah, I am a weird man. Well, yeah, we're growing to read Model Land by Tyra Banks for this, I believe, 17th book and next 100 episodes of the podcast.

And we read the first six chapters of it starting today.

And there's a lot to cover in this deeply, I mean, your home life, your marriage is deeply weird as we disacknowled.

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