What if you had amnesia, but instead of waking up in the Atlantic after a botched assassination,

you woke up on a spaceship and are pretty sure you didn't kill these dead people around you.

Today's book is a wonderful, fun, sci-fi story filled with real science, real emotions, real problem-solving,

and a real high count of the phrase, dang it. It's Project

Hail Mary by Andy Weir. And this is the book pile. I'm Kellyn Erskine. I'm a comic, a father,

and I guess a big fan of Andy Weir because I've now read two out of his three novels,

which is an even bigger fraction of books than I've read from Harper Lee.

The answer to that joke is one out of barely two.

That's a bigger fraction than Harper Lee has read of Harper Lee.

And I'm David Vance.

Speaking of Hail Mary, I bet Catholics are thrilled that we use their sacred prayer to mean something that probably won't work.

All right.

If you have eight seconds to spare, we'd love it if you could leave a rating and a review.

Crazy Pickle Math Superstar says, I'm pretty sure they were just hoping I would read all that.

This podcast is my favorite out of the two podcasts I've ever listened to.

Okay, we clearly know that that line was for me.

We don't need to know how many you listen to.

It's fun to listen to when my mom makes me do chores.

All right.

I think that's the reason for the two podcasts.

Yeah, hopefully.

It's not a nine-year-old who's really into true crime.

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