Hey, I'm David Kern.

I'm Heidi White.

I'm Tim McIntosh.

And I'm Sean Johnson.

And you were listening to Close Reads, a podcast for the Incurable Reader on which we are discussing Harper Lees to kill a mockingbird.

We are discussing the final chapters and thus the whole book.

So we can, you know, we don't have to worry about

spoilers anymore if we ever were um we're gonna gonna dig deep next week we will answer your

questions so be prepared to post those on the thread over on close reads HQ before we get

into the conversation though tim how goes it really well well, David. Really well. Gaylon and I leave for two weeks in

Oregon beginning tomorrow. Promise land. The promise land. We've been really looking forward to like a little bit

of a break from the Atlanta heat. It's been sweltering and

humid here. And I glimpsed at the temperatures in Oregon. And it's scheduled to be

109 the second day that we're there. It's going to feel different though, Tim. It'll be great.

Yeah, they won't be as humid. Yeah, that's a huge comfort to me right now.

Think of all the fresh berries.

Wilting on the vine.

Yeah. Where are you going in Oregon, Eugene?

We're going to Ashland, Eugene, Portland, with a little bit of stop in a couple of coastal cities

because the oregon coast is really magical you know i'm actually reading a book right now

it's one of my favorite things i've read this year and it's about the final voyage of captain

cook and did you know that while on this final final voyage which took him years, he spent quite a bit of time off the coast

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