Hey, everybody, welcome back to 372 pages. We'll never get back. I am Connor Lestoka, and after a brief hiatus whereupon we trucked through time and

cat burglar day building in British Columbia, we are back to discuss a brand new book.

And back as always is Mike Nelson, who has returned from his own vacation.

Mike, how are you doing?

I'm doing good.

I'd like to say to everyone out there, including you, Connor, damn it, boy.

That's how I'd like to greet you all.

Right.

That includes men, women, whatever.

Damn it, boys, all of you.

Yeah, it's a y'all type of thing.

It's inclusive of all. Boys is a, is a, is a universal term when used in the context of a dammit. Yes, yeah, it, it, it solves a linguistic problem the same way that, uh, y'all does. I like y'all a lot. I, I wish I could use it. I feel like, it's kind of like smoking a pipe. It's not really something I can do and pull off.

Yeah, it's stolen valor is sort of how I feel about it.

Exactly.

But yes, I have returned from the road.

Frankly, I went out looking for answers, Connor.

I was shaken up by, shake it up by the book.

The things that that book posited about the universe just, uh, made you think my core. Um, there were, obviously there was religious and philosophic overtones that, uh, that rocked me a bit. And I, I, I went out looking for, like many pilgrims. I hit the road.

It was sort of like Charles E. Harris was your Robin Williams and Dead Poets Society. He made

you question what you had believed up to this point. Oh, captain, my captain, Charles E. Harris.

Oh, savages, my real savages.

Yeah, and like a lot of pilgrims out on the road, I, you know, I learned a lot.

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