Oh, hello, welcome, everyone.

This is 372 pages. We'll never get back. I'm Michael J. Nelson. And of course, Connor, you're here, aren't you? I'm here, Mike. Well, what's happening? Well, I'm currently, I'm eating one of those square green oranges that they produce up at the Fresno sector biotech farms. I'm assuming you're snacking on one as well. Yeah, I'd pick him up from Costco. There was a split second where it's like, is he going to talk about what he's actually doing, or is this going to be a bit? But it's, yep. No, it's square green oranges, everyone. That's because your doctor asked you to eat breakfasts that only gleam with insight

about the future, right?

That is correct.

This is, of course, the podcast where we read through a book that we're probably going

to hate.

We have, of course, conquered the works of Ernest Klein and Jim Tice.

And we are currently on the G uh, the Goulart, Shatner mashup,

tech war. Yeah. I was, uh, I was doing a show at the, at the Vermont comedy club, uh,

like a Christmas show. And I was there for the first like sort of kickoff meeting last night and

just sat down. And my friend Nathan, who owns the club was just like, oh,, it's been a been a couple weeks. Like what have you been up to? And I sort of had this journey in my mind, you know, that in my mind took place like over the course of many minutes. But it's like, do I say I've been reading a lot of tech war because like, you know, like this guy knows what I do and you know knows that we do

this kind of nonsense but like I don't even want to talk about it with someone who's not fully

versed in the process of why we're doing this and like what tech war is and you know we've

read other bad books but is it that bad that you won't even explain it to a guy who understands

it I you know if it's you know it's your grandfather or something. Well, sure. Yeah. Right. You've been up to a young man. Well, of course, I'm reading tech war. He stops polishing his Medal of Honor and says get out of my house. But no, it was more of just like, do we need, I don't want to get into the specifics.

Like, you know, then you have, then the next thing I know I'm explaining, oh, yeah, like he calls things plaids and just sticks another word on the end of it. And then he's like to me confusing. And, you know, then it's like, oh, yeah, and he goes rid it with a guy who wrote Groucho Marx. Yeah, he's at that point he's narrowing his eyes and just lightly shaking his head.

Like, why are you? who wrote Groucho Marx. Yeah, he's at that point, he's narrowing his eyes and just lightly shaking his head.

Like, why are you what?

Exactly.

Right.

In too deep.

But then the kicker is about an hour after that decision not to talk about tech

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