Hey, everyone.

Michael J. Nelson, Connor Lestoka here with 372 pages.

We'll never get back.

And right off the bat, I have to say, Gray's anatomy is still on, Connor.

This can't be possible.

Is that something you woke up in the middle of the night thinking about, just like a start?

You sat up, bolt up right?

It's still on TV.

It's still on. No, still on huh no i uh i thought it was

over as you know in our pre-conversation i was sure i had seen a tearful last episode promo

but no that was just i guess the last episode of the 80th season of it it's like a biennial uh

like groundhog day or something where once every

every two years or 18 months or something you or I will see some sort of it will cross our

radar obviously that neither of us watch it or have anyone in our lives that watch it but we will

become aware that it's still on TV and we will let each other know about that and it's like at this point it's, you know, that stupid thing where what's the longest running show on TV? It's the, you know, nightly news or whatever. Shut up. Yeah. But now Gray's Anatomy making a good run at it. Yeah. I wonder if it has a today show or whatever, you know. I wonder if there are jaded guys like me about The Simpsons where it's like, that hasn't been good since season 11. I'm sure. I'm sure there are. Anyway, this is the, not a podcast where we talk about Gray's Anatomy. This is where we talk about bad books. We're in the middle of Ernest Klein's, well, we're nearing the end of Ernest Klein's Ready Player 2. Yeah, this is the penultimate episode about it. And I say it's not about Graz Anatomy yet, but, you know, give Ready Player 3 a chance because there's a, you know, there's no telling what he might wedge in there. If they start taking, like, if he runs a Patreon or something and the $5,000 tier lets you pick which planet he's going to go to next.

Like, we could have the Grey's Anatomy planet.

We could have the, you know, Nickelodeon Hey Dude planet.

He's running out of stuff that you can really dive deep into here.

Do you think he would be so desperate that he'd do like a sports planet at some point?

Oh, man. Just lose every desperate that he'd do like a sports planet at some point. Oh, man.

Just lose every fan that he had.

That would be like, you know, a Neil Young's, what was it called, the Transformer album

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