Episode 37 – I Laugh a lot When I Write

372 Pages We'll Never Get Back

Arts, Books, Comedy

4.8 • 595 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2019

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Our favorite unreliable narrator who is also a toilet salesman/mallet assassin is back to bring his book into the homestretch! We’ve got brand new onomatopoeias, lipstick smeared on teeth, and of course, boatloads of alliteration. There’s also a literal boat, which our hero uses to abandon Hurricane Katrina relief effort volunteers to their death. (this … Continue reading "Episode 37 – I Laugh a lot When I Write"

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone.
0:17.0	Hey, everyone. This is 372 pages. We'll never get back. I am Michael J. Nelson. Connor is here too.
0:27.2	Connor, how are you? I'm good, Mike. I had a fun trip, not this weekend, with the last one.
0:33.2	Right after we just recorded the same day, I flew out to Reno, Nevada for a friend's bachelor party. And it was one of those, like, you know, flights that gets in at like 2 a.m. Eastern time. So I was, you know, exhausted the whole time. But it was also a JetBlue flight. So there was TV on it the whole way. Oh, nice. I've never done the JetBlue. Oh, it's, yeah, it's, you know, they didn't kill anyone's dog.
0:58.3	They didn't drag anyone off the plane bleeding.
1:01.5	So it was disappointing in that respect.
1:03.6	But they did have TV.
1:05.6	So as I was, as I was drifting off, doing the whole like nod thing, just because it was late in my time,
1:12.5	I happened to glance over at what the guy next to me was watching and saw that Sean Penn
1:17.7	was on late night with Jimmy Kimmel.
1:21.8	And it was that sort of like that state of mind where it was like, am I really seeing this?
1:25.7	Like this is a little on the nose life.
1:28.7	But it, yeah, he was he was on there to promote the, uh, the paperback release of Bob Honey
1:34.0	who just do stuff. So the thing that we mused about before your trip, it came true. The person
1:40.6	next to you were they elbowing you and going ah you must you must love this i didn't
1:46.2	have the book out i hadn't i hadn't been reading it so there was no opportunity for that but and and i
1:50.8	i was you know i still fell back asleep then so i didn't have a chance to to know what he was
1:55.6	talking about um on the plane but i you know i i assumed you know i gave him credit i assumed he
2:00.4	was coming out like you know snapping his fingers, you know, I gave him credit. I assumed he was coming out,
2:01.2	like, you know, snapping his fingers and making jokes with the band and sort of just entertaining
2:05.5	everybody and doing some self-deprecating, you know, takes to the audience. Yeah, they kind of like
2:11.6	Paul Newman used to go on Letterman and give the audience the double guns and do terrible jokes about
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