Oh, yes, hello. Welcome all to 372 pages. We'll never get back. That is a bittersweet sound, isn't it, Connor?

Yes, it is. It's a, you know, I brought that into the world knows, who knows if we'll ever hear it again.

That's right. This is, sadly, the final episode of 372 pages will never get back.

Are you, how are you feeling about this, Connor?

You know, it's, you know, you say it's sad because it's the last one, but it means that we've reached the end of this book. And when we're done, I'll remove it from my living space and I won't look at it again. So it's it's got it's pros and cons like many things in this in this life we lead. Yes, it does. It is like I said, it's bittersweet. There's an upside, too. We have to remember that.

Very strong. Very strong upside. This is the podcast where Connor Lestoken, I, I am Mike Nelson. We do work together over at rifftracks.com and Connor thought it would be a good idea. Remember, I always want to keep pointing the fact that it was your idea.

You seem to bring it up a lot. I hadn't really noticed that. It's to give you both credit and blame. I just want to, I'm hedging my bets on that one.

But we are reading through the book Ready Player 1 by Ernest Klein, the soon-to-be major motion picture by Steven Spielberg.

And we are reaching the end of it.

If you have been listening, you have read up to this point.

I know all of you have read every single word.

Yeah.

I assume, right?

Yeah, there's, you know, I would be crazy, like I've said before, to be listening to all

this without experiencing all the pros and twists and deep, deep character development

and arcs without experience it for yourself firsthand.

Right, and we'll get to all that. Maybe just a quick up to this

point thing. Once again, for those of you who are reading along, you already know, but

virtual reality world in 24, some little punk kid plays video games to win a billion dollars

from an eccentric billionaire who created the virtual

reality world in which he lives to escape the dystopian nightmare that the world has become

in 24, correct?

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