And the Oh, Well, Dave, you are fired up. I am. You are fired up. I am. You, before we started

recording, you told me that you did something shocking. Can you share it with the audience?

But you, you've been reading reviews and I did. The ones that Renee sends us. That's true. Yeah, I did go to the

Apple Podcast page because we have been soliciting five-star reviews. We are we are

literally begging for praise and compliments, which is the name of the game.

It's what you have to do.

It does help people find the show.

It really does.

So it's unseemly, but it has to be done. Long, long, like right when my book came out,

before my book came out, when there were, I don't know if I ever told you about this, but there's an Amazon program that I forget the name of, where people who are, who love to comment on, who love to leave reviews on Amazon, are given the opportunity to give advance

reviews of books, right?

So they check off some interests and whatever and then they get sent advanced copies of books and

they get to review them.

And so some of my early, like my advanced reviews are very good and some were very bad because the people

didn't, like just weren't interested in the subject matter.

And then, so they were like,

I don't know the songs that he's talking about.

Okay, okay, so the book is not for you, put the shit down.

Nobody, you didn't pay for it.

You don't have to review it.

And then I would click on the person and literally in one case

all cat toys and then my book and then more cat toys. And then it's like you know somebody wrote a review of some motor oil and, you know, whatever, a buffet dish, and then my book.

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