Hello, everybody. Welcome to 372 pages. We'll never get back. Emphasis on the three, for some reason. I'm Connor Lestoka. This is the podcast where we listen to us talk about bad books that we have read me and mike

that's a you know that's a convoluted way of of saying something that we've said what a hundred and

37 times now the introduction to this podcast you get you know the deal if again if you're just

listening for the first time um you got a lot to catch up on.

And you'll quickly understand what's going on.

But yeah, your strange emphasis reminded me of we're just doing a movie right now where I had to rewind a couple times because a weird old guy is just saying the word sour puss.

Yeah.

Right?

Just how would you say that?

It's just that's pretty standard pronunciation. Come on. Don't be a sour puss. Yeah. Right? Just how would you say that? It's just, that's pretty standard pronunciation. Uh, come on, don't be a sour puss. This guy is, we only have this, the only thing we have to worry about is sour puss. What is he saying? Sour what? Weird emphasis. Anyway. Yes. And that is the name of a restaurant in this world.

Come on down to the sour puss.

Anyway, yeah, we have quite a book.

We're in the, well, we're nearing the end.

Three quarters of the way through Edison's Conquest of Mars by Garrett P. Service.

A cereal printed in, I think, a Boston newspaper, possibly others, in 1898. So the second oldest book we've ever covered on this here

podcast. Do you think we'll ever get older than that? Oh, man, were there even books before this?

I tapped out. I, yeah, I there even books before this? I tapped out.

Oh, yeah, I think, you know, we could read Gutenberg's Bible, I guess, and that's about it.

Yeah, that's a yuckfast.

Yes.

I know, I had to read books.

I'm sure I've talked about it earlier than this in my least favorite class I ever took in college that was like

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