Oh, hello, everyone.

Hello, and welcome to 372 pages.

We'll never get back.

I am Mike Nelson, and you are, sir.

Connor Lestoka.

How's it going, Mike?

I'm doing well.

How are you?

I'm good.

We had a day yesterday in Burlington, Vermont, you know, 30 minutes from the Canadian

border that 68 degrees, I think, was the high. Oh, well, aren't you special? I believe we

once again touch zero again here in Minnesota. It's, you know, I asked you the day before

if you were getting the heat wave and it just, you know, it was not a, uh, it was not like a leading question to like, I thought you had looked ahead and was, you know, I just, I'm under, you know, I've lived here for two and a half years and I still, I'm working under the assumption that we're pretty much, you know, me and you are experiencing the same thing all the time, 900 miles away from each other, but

I guess not.

Nope, I am, uh, I am killing polar bears with my bare hands on the hour here in Minnesota.

Um, so for those of you who wonder why and what the hell we're talking about, Mike Nelson,

Connor Lusoka, 372 pages, it's a podcast, right? And what we're doing is we're talking through

and reading through with our audience and ourselves, the book Armada by Ernest Klein. And this is

the second in a series of podcast we did Ready Player 1.

And we're so enthused by it that we went on to his follow-up book.

Do I have that right, Connor?

Yeah, there was a word then there that I might have slightly objected to.

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