Hello, everybody, and welcome to 372 pages. We'll never get back. I am Connor Lestoka, joined by Mike Nelson.

Mike, we're reading Gump and Co, Gump and Company, and we are past the halfway mark now.

How do you, how's it going for you?

Ass, Connor, ass is all I have to say.

That's pretty much every other word, so I might as well open the podcast with it.

Yes, absolutely.

It's full of asses, assing around, kicking people in

their big old asses, door jams, hitting you in the ass. It's as assy as it can get, I would say.

And can I just say from the start, I'm done with bidsness. I'm really not happy when every time

I read that word in everyone's mouth.

It's it comes up a lot for how often, you know, he's actually engaging in bidness.

But even, even when the bidness is, is hog farming or something like that, it, it does get mighty tiresome.

It's grating. But yeah, but I'm happy to be past the halfway mark. Run, Forrest Run, I would say. And I don't even know what that means, but I'm going to say it. Well, we have everything to share with everybody today. We have dumb sentences of the week. We have some emails. And we have, of course, real or fanfic, which has proven to be quite fun, if not super

difficult for you, I think, that this iteration of the book.

Didn't I, I thought last week was fairly triumphant.

Or am I hovering at the 50% mark?

I think that was a, you might have had four to five last week and maybe three out of five

before, so your average continues to tick up.

Okay.

Much like the penny stocks and junk bonds sold by Michael Milken in the 1980s.

Yep. And his pal, Mike Mulligan.

For sure, yes. Steam shovel owner.

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