I enjoyed talking about the Dune trailer so much with Jen last week that I made her come back to talking

while Rebecca's out. So she's here against her will.

Hardly, hardly.

Fear is the mind killer, Jen.

Yeah, that's right.

So we're going to talk about the news.

Rebecca's out on break.

She'll be back next week.

Programming note, next midweek episode

coming out next week on Wednesday.

I rope the Liberty Hardy and Rensie Abrams of all the books and Red or Dead

podcast respectively to talk with me about Yaa Jesse's really wonderful

second novel transcendent kingdom.

For those of you who are homegoing fans,

it's not much like homegoing turns out.

There's some similar ideas, similar locations where people are from, but it's a much smaller, more intimate book,

but still equally wonderful.

And yeah, Jesse already was one of my favorite most exciting riders but I think she's entered

slightly a different terrain because I don't know coming out of this one she can do

anything I don't know what to expect coming from her neck so that really exciting. Had a good conversation about that. We do a few minutes of talk at the top that's spoiler free. We also do our content warnings at the top there. So you can listen along for a few minutes if you'd like to have our

here there's especially general impressions of the book before wanting to read it

yourself down the road to come back to it so you can check that out there I've got some

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