A warning up top that unlike our usual welcome snack time episodes, there is some adult

language and ideas in this episode. So if you are listening with children that's just something to

know. Hi Joseph Fink here and I wrote a memoir with Meg Bashwinner who is the voice of the Night

Feel Credits, the MC of the touring Nightvale live show and also she is my wife and this is a

memoir we wrote together about the first 10 years of our relationship. 2009 to 2019 told year by year

with each of us writing about the year without consulting the other. As you might imagine we don't

quite remember things the same way. It comes out on May 11th and info for how to preorder it,

including personalized signed preorders are at welcomesnapfale.com and you can click on books.

But in the meantime we wanted to give you a little taste of what the book is like. So here is the

first year from that book 2009 first told from my point of view and then from makes and yes this

is us reading the audio book. We performed the audio book ourselves it was a lot of fun to do. I

think it turned out really well. So if you want to buy it on audio it's there as well. Okay let's get

to it. 2009 still feels like present tense. A decade passes so quickly. We met in the East Village

selling tickets for a downtown performance art collective called the New York Neo Futures,

working in a tiny cubicle of a box office where the inner wall was a corkboard littered with

programs for shows that had closed years before. Meg was interning with the Neo Futures and I had

recently auditioned for them and not been cast. Having nowhere else to go in New York I subsequently

showed up every weekend to their show volunteering at their box office so that I wouldn't have to pay

for tickets. The crash of 2008 had left me with few savings and no job. We were 22 and full of the

posturing performance that substitutes for personality at that age. In a person's early 20s the

human being who eventually will form naturally with time has to be hastily scraped together

from the shaky models of movies and social media. Meg was a constant smoker then and so my first

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