Hi this is k kitty from Washington DC and you were left to know me

athlete radio Matt last night I was walking downtown Asheville and stumbled into this fancy bookstore and who do I see but you at the front and behind a black table with a

water wall out front being all sophisticated.

Yeah, you walk by the local independent store doing your civic duty of

supporting the local independent and there we were presenting not just me with

Stephanie Romine our co-author and Heather Crosby of Yum Universe, who was just on this podcast.

I guess that was last episode, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

So yes, we did that.

That was my second event ever at Malaprops and of course that was celebrating our book release.

No me. I think Cookbook came out yesterday which was as we're recording this.

That was Tuesday, May 16th. Yes that is what it more or less sounded like fanfare

everywhere. Collectively I think just about everyone around was just

whahhoo woke up. I'm pretty sure that's what they all did.

Yeah, well, no, you know, it felt like that leading up to it.

The weekend with the pre-orders and all that were crazy as far as sales and we can talk

about that stuff in a little bit.

It made me very, very excited. Yesterday we had had some, I don't know, confounding factors that kind of made things a little

stressful for me.

but anyway, we can get to that in a minute.

We also have your race to talk about, Doug, that you have, you just finished another

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