Hello, everybody. Welcome to 372 pages. We'll never get back. I am Connor Lestoka,

joined, as always, by Mike Nelson. And Mike, it's an exciting day. It is always exciting when it's time for a new book.

Sometimes then you catch up with us several months later.

We're still excited.

Other times we're bedraggled and sweating and tugging at our collar with like 12

angry men.

Like when do we get to get out of here?

So this is always an exciting time because we don't

know what we'll be like in a couple weeks exactly it's like turning a page in a choose-your-own

adventure book where uh you know at one point of our lives the words uh certified global

management accountant meant nothing to us and now it still makes us laugh many years later.

Sweet honey on our tongues.

Yes.

And then otherwise, we hear the words Bob Honey and it makes us cringe and rich.

But yeah, it's very exciting because, you know, this is the 21st time we've spun this wheel to determine how we're going to

spend the next few months of our lives and our free time, you know, what we're going to be

reading to Lauren and Bridget to get them to, you know, ask us to please stop reading to them

type of thing. Yeah. And, you know, it's summertime here and, you know, I'm beat down by the pool, reading, and everyone walking by, oh, what do you read?

It's just fun to think about describing this book to these people.

But also the cascade effect of the fact that, you know, hundreds of other people will be having that experience as well where, you know,

they'll be skipping a school play or, you know, not picking their kids up from camp because

they're sitting at home to read what we're about to unleash upon them. And that's, you know,

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