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When you hear that catchy, catchy music, and you flip your calendar to Thursday,

you know it's time for The Bocase with Kate and Charlie, and I am the Kate Part.

And I'm the Charlie part, the secondary part, the part that comes after, but it's nice to be here.

I invite our editor to put some violin music under the wary size of his own introduction.

So I know that if you are a loyal listener, you get excited about the fact that we talk to

independent booksellers. We try to do it more or less at the end of most

shows, but we haven't done it lately. And you also know how much I enjoy throwing my father

under the bus. In fact, you can hear the sound, whee! As I toss him under the bus, and why am I

tossing you under the bus dad? Maybe because you think it's my fault that we

haven't booked enough booksellers in recent weeks. And you get a little perturbed with me about that.

Yes. Is that the reason you're throwing me under the bus? You know, it could be. I booked the

authors. You book the booksellers. I've offered to book the booksellers, and you always say, no, no, no, no, I'll get right on top of that.

But I'll forgive him because he's nice and because he does this podcast with me.

As long as he occasionally lets me pick him up by the shirttails and throw him under the big public bus, I think it's a pretty good deal.

Oh, boy.

Okay, that's it.

We're done.

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