Oh, hey, everybody. Welcome to the Cripes cast. I'm your host, Charlie

Barons. This week, my guest is nobody. All my gosh, jeepers,

Cripes, what happened? How come there's no guest booked? Well,

you know that book that we're writing called the Midwest Survival Guide?

Yeah, yeah. That book that you've been up to like 4 a.m.

The past four nights put in the finishing touches on because

for the past nine months, when you should have been doing that, you were just

kind of dittling around. Interesting way to say that. I thought I'd

been working pretty hard on it over the past nine months. Well, you know, not

hard enough. Okay, honest to Pete, this just like that fifth grade school project

you did, you know, your state report on the on the state of Illinois.

You remember that and you're like, what am I going to do?

I got to bring up the bears and I don't want to talk about the okay.

Anyway, so it is just like that. I've been working on this book called the

Midwest Survival Guide for a while and but it was all due

this morning. And so long story short, I didn't have time to book a

guest this week, but I thought what could be fun is if I just read a passage

from the book for all of you. And then perhaps if you like the passage,

you can go to Krebscast.com and buy the book.

Jeez, Louise. Okay, first you don't get a guest and now you're trying to plug

your book to your loyal listeners. Why don't you do your job? Okay, that's

enough. Before I get into it, I just want to thank our sponsors,

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