Hey, everyone.

This is 372 pages.

We'll never get back.

Michael J. Nelson here along with Connor Lestoka.

Connor, how are you this morning?

I'm doing good, Mike,

and I'd like to extend a special 372 greetings to anyone who might be listening for the first

time, you know, people just sort of might have heard like people saying, like, this is a funny

podcast, you should listen to it. And, you know, most podcasts, you can just sort of, yeah, pick up at any time, listen

to any episode.

So if this is their first, it really starts with a bang for them today.

Yeah, it's kind of like if you are listening to a true crime podcast and it immediately

starts in the gruesome part.

Yeah.

They discovered a fifth oil drum containing dead children.

This once had been, you know, you got to build up to that.

So if you are listening for the first time, we recommend, you know, starting at the beginning

of the book, but we're also in pretty deep into this bad book of verse. So there's all sorts of, you know, starting at the beginning of the book, but we're also in pretty deep into this bad

book of verse. So there's all sorts of, you know, weird allusions to authors you've never heard

of, authors that no reasonable person has ever heard of. We're going to be comparing things to

Sean Penn's book, which if you're, again, listening for the first time, you rightfully did not

know existed. And we're living a peaceful, you know, bucolic life, not knowing that Bob Honey existed. Sean Penn, Bob Honey, the second book, did that, did we do a news report on that? Do we go to the newsroom and throw to, did that come out? It did come out. Bob, Bob Honey sings Jimmy Crack Corn. Okay.'t even know if we got a... We must have done stuff. I think we did when it was announced that it was coming out, but I don't think we did anything when it came out. I think I punked you or punked the readers into thinking we are going to read it. But I don't even know if we got a maniac who went through and read it and gave us a book report on it. Wow. Which is something because

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