Welcome to Literary Friction.

I'm Octavia Bright here with my co-host Carrie Plitt.

Good morning, Carrie Plit.

Good morning, Artelia Bright.

How you doing?

I'm doing great.

It's the morning.

I'm ready to go.

I've had some coffee.

Yeah, sounds perfect.

So Carrie has once again let me have the keys to this Chevy. So she's buckled up beside me and I'm driving

again. I don't know how long I can keep this metaphor going. I can't actually drive. I don't

know where the gear stick is. But anyway, we're really... Should drive an automatic. I should drive an automatic.

Yeah, maybe that's a good idea. That's such an American thing to say. We drive stick here, babe. Yes. But you don't say stick. No, that's also true. I'm just translating for you. I've been here for 10 years. I'm just rousing you. Anyway, anyway, anyway, welcome to Minnesota number two. We're really pleased to be back with another one for you guys. Thank you for all the amazing feedback that you

gave us about Minnesota 1. It was a great relief to us that it went well. Please keep it coming.

We want to hear what you want to see, hear, not see. We want to hear what you want to hear

and all your thoughts. Maybe not all your

thoughts, but the majority of your thoughts. If you want to write your thoughts to us, we will read them.

We won't necessarily respond. We'll try. Yes. We are listening. Like Frasier Crane,

we're listening. Carrie, do you want to give us a rundown of what we can expect on the minisode today?

Yeah, totally. So a big hello to our regular listeners and also anyone who is just tuning in for the first time.

So for the next half hour or so, we're going to follow a similar structure to last show, which is that for the first half we're going to be answering a question.

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