Hey, everyone.

Michael J. Nelson here. This is 372 pages. Hey, everyone.

Michael J. Nelson here.

This is 372 pages.

We'll never get back.

This is the podcast where we talk about bad books.

And we have never aired in them being bad.

I'm here with Connor Lestoka.

We work over at Rift Tracks, and then we do this thing.

Connor, how are you this morning?

I'm good.

That's a good claim to make.

We've never aired in picking a bad book here. Yeah, I mean, there's something you could screw up some time and go, whoops, we accidentally read Finnegan's Wake or something. But we haven't done that yet. But there's guys, you know, there's guys like, who is a guy who played Fredo, John Cavill, Cavizal?

It's not Caviz, but yes, close. Yeah, I don't, I can't remember. Yeah, but, you know, never made a bad movie or, you know, you could maybe there's producers who are like, you know, I've all I've made are hits, baby. It's like, all we've picked is garbage. We've done a great job of it. Who goes to us? If that Oscar winner, John, whose name we can't remember, I'm sorry, John,

that if he had lived, because I believe he died right after his very productive period,

if he had lived, he'd been in like Night at the Roxbury or something like that. Yes, he was just, damn it, I almost made it.

Yeah, those Peter Falk or those roles in Happy Madison movies.

I'll describe the book that we have and describe the episode that we have for today.

Oh, man, it's been quite a ride.

We've picked Ready Player 2 by Ernest Klein as this next book.

It is so far, it's the sequel to the first book we ever did

on the podcast. And we recorded the first one, I think two days before Thanksgiving. And I,

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