And the Hello my podcast. My name is Josh Norris and there is no time I want to hear from this man more than

this moment right now in our lives. It's Patrick Dorty.

Patrick, how are you doing? How's life?

I'm good. Do you think I'm a soothing pandemic presence or something?

I think you like border this line of one I know you're going to throw a lot of jokes at me so that works

They might not all hit but you're gonna throw them at me so that gives me some level of humor the the high variance of it, you know?

You're like the Josh Allen of joke tellers.

But on the other side, you know, I know that you know about the world.

And so hopefully I learned something along the way as well.

Plus you have young kids so you have this this family affiliate with you as well.

I think you have all the bases covered here, Pat. I do, yeah, you're saying I'm a man of the world and like a man's man like a man's man like a

leader of a family nothing but wisdom and yeah I'm a soothing presence essentially and when it comes to the jokes you know you

miss 100% of the shots you don't take Josh.

What are you reading during this crazy and wild period we live in right now, Pat?

Well, I was recently reading a book called They Thought They Were Free

about how normal Germans were caught up in the Nazi movement back in the 30s and 40s.

I moved on to something slightly less heavy than that. Called a 1491, and I forget what comes after the colon,

but it's a book about the Native American civilizations in North, South, and Central America before Christopher Columbus arrived,

and how much larger and more complex they were than generally given credit for beyond even like the Mayans and the Aztecs and the Incas, the famous ones.

So it's been a very interesting book.

So obviously much more positive, optimistic and uplifting times in the world

than right now, Pat. So before we get started, speaking of light-hearted Pat, let's play a game.

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