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Hi. Hi. That was completely perfectly synchronized. Wow. Usually we really talk over each other with the highs just like starting immediately with this podcast. Yeah. Yeah. Hi. I'm so happy to see you. Everybody, we're so excited to be with you again, our little readers. This is our book club episode for May. Also, our non-readers, because some people have said they still listen to these even if they haven't read the book. And that's the ultimate compliment. I love that so much. And we actually do aim to make sure it's going to be entertaining to people, even if they didn't read the book.

Obviously, there are spoilers, but if you're not planning on reading the book, then you don't give a shit about spoilers.

So everybody wins.

Our book this month was called This Story May Save Your Life, Might Save Your Life.

Might Save Your Life, I think. Yeah. Might Save Your Life, I think.

Yeah.

And it was about podcasters.

Yeah, very close to home.

Very close to home.

They were also Angelinos.

Yes.

How did you feel about that?

Well, I will say, I actually, for me, it was so interesting because there were so many little Angelino

things that I wanted to be like, no, you guys, like, this is actually crazy.

So to get into spoilers, basically when she's talking about how she got her husband who was isolating her, moved her to this one particular area of L.A., Mount Washington, I was like, whoa, that's, like, he's totally isolating her from everyone. Like, you don't just casually move there. Where is that? Far as fuck. I was going to say, I was picturing it being very, like, desolate, deserty. Where is it in L.A.? Oh, no. It's, like, mountainous. Okay. But it's far. It's like very much on the outskirts.

And I love-far to an L.A. person is also very relative.

So true, but it's not easy. It's, if I had a friend that lived in Mount Washington, we wouldn't be friends.

Got it. Okay. Because it's just too much. It's just too much. And I will say, though, and I said this in the book club chat, and then I realized, like, oh, people might have actually taken this a little bit more seriously than I meant it. But one of the big things about being in Los Angeles is that when you refer to freeways, you say, I took the 101.

I went on the 405.

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