Oh, yes, yes, we know what that sound means, don't we?

It's time for 372 pages.

We'll never get back.

Welcome to the podcast.

I am Michael J. Nelson.

Doing some work over at Rift Tracks and then reading Ready Player 1 along with Rift

Tracks producer and writer Connor. How are you, Connor? I'm wonderful, Mike. This is the

getting to be the highlight of my week, getting together with you and talking about a book that we

thought we were going to hate. And it turns out that none of our, none of our expectations were really calibrated high enough, I feel like.

Yeah, we did not miss the mark.

Connor and I, you know, I think we read at separate times.

Obviously, we don't synchronize our reading.

That would be odd.

But it's everything we can do to to hold back until this

podcast. So this podcast is hopefully fun for you, but also a great relief, a great release and relief

for us, I think. Yeah, I think that's what people have, the people who have been emailing in have

have been expressing that, that it's very cathartic. You get some of these emails that sound like it's, it's close to the people who have been emailing in have been expressing that, that it's very cathartic.

You get some of these emails that sound like it's close to the people punching holes in the walls.

They're emailing us instead of doing that.

So I'm glad we can be there for you.

A little steam valve for everyone.

I like it a lot.

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