**Please note: this transcript was automatically generated. We're working on going back over this to add speakers' names and clear up misspellings as we have time ... but as we all know, there is precious little of that** Okay, just teach them how to multiply Quick by nines with their fingers. I've heard that's all it takes to reach more likely to bore them by talking about. That's an alternate solution, I guess. Yeah. And I can be like this mr ham guy, he's boring, he really is, he's really into this stuff. We're not. I'd like that's fair. No, I'm not. I'm not cool. I am a complete, really huge dork. I like science fiction, I love history, I like other social studies topics. Um there's nothing cruel about me. Don't lead with that though. Mhm. Okay, mm hmm. Mhm. Hello and welcome back to our Tfb. This is Travis and today chris, other chris and I are talking about our brand new book, The Girl with the dragon tattoo by Stieg Larsson. If this is your first time listening in just a quick refresher, what we do around here is pick a book that's been made into a movie, read the book and chat about it. Book club style, then we'll watch the movie and get back together and talk about that too. Later on today, we're doing neither of those though. Today, we're just easing into things by talking about our expectations for the book and films and stuff. A general content warning if you are sensitive to discussions of sexual assault, we do mention that topic today and it's a constant theme in the book as well. You might even say it is the main underlying theme. So please do what you need to do to safeguard yourself. Even if that means just skipping this book altogether, We promise we won't hold it against you. Okay. Once you're ready to go, let's get back to my conversation with the chris is already in progress. It'll be good. I've learned very quickly when I did student teaching that I was not a teacher. That might confirm this for me. Yeah. And like the kids couldn't figure out how to use the calculators to do their math problems and I just I had no patience for it. Yeah. Like I can teach you this like how do I add these numbers? Like sucking, push the number come to me a few years because I keep thinking would be nice to do teaching or like, but I would want to teach like high school history, why this might disabused me of any teeth desires to keep doing trying that or I might like it and be like, okay, this is what we do, You should know either way at the end of this, whether that's something you want to pursue correct and if I'm even feeling okay about it, I'll probably keep pursuing it because I'll just be like, this was a really unique situation. So it's not, it's not the norm for a teacher, right? What you going to do? Right? Right. Get through it is all Yeah, fun times. So we got a new book, right? Yeah, we did. Um I basically know nothing about this book. Nothing. I generally know there's a girl in it. Okay, because it's in the title. Yeah. Alright fair enough. I understand there's like hacking type activities. Yeah, that's all I got. So do you do you know about like um I don't know like like sort of the nordic noir genre? Okay so you haven't so you're not aware of like like Wallander or anything like that where it's like like grim dark like winter nine months of the year like fucking murders and like now see I heard have heard of that but I have not read a lot about that genre or anything and I have read a lot either mostly seen like adapted to tv series. Yeah. Yeah. It's it's it's been pretty popular like the last I don't know how long but like yeah you catch stuff on like on BBC PBS like those kinds of and like you know there are also the the Swedish tv shows and like there there was like uh I think an Icelandic one not too long ago that I can't remember the name of. Um But it but it really is like yeah nordic nordic noir, like a very specific kind of like bleak fucking dark icy kind of murdering feeling right? Right? But like born out of real life right? Like I mean I don't I don't know how much murder there actually is but like but but I mean if you think about the fact that like I don't know like like Death Metal came out of Sweden right? Right. I don't know like it seems like people have kind of a uh like a tendency towards that kind of thinking I guess regardless of, you know how nice it actually is to live there. Yeah, yeah, so something about that then is going on here. Exactly. Well, I feel like I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel here for getting to know your questions, but since what I know about this book is there is a girl with the dragon tattoo. What's the crazy tattoo you'd have all over your back slash shoulder? Nothing. Perfect. I have zero tattoos. No, but what would it be if you're being weird, grim dark activist lady? I don't know, I figure probably some obscure tom would page or something. Mhm It will be about justice or I don't know stuff like that, making the world better. That would be mine. Is it ironic to get jewish tattoo buried in the cemetery? That's not actually true. It's a popular misconception a long time ago. Yeah, can be buried. The prohibition was against tattooing for morning purposes and stuff, which used to be a thing like in the asian world and then it just kind of got spread into a general, we don't have any tattoos even though you could, but people just didn't correct it like rabbis and stuff because I didn't want testing that and then lately it's like, well, so many young people get tattoos that we have to tell them that it's actually okay. As long as it's not for these specific purposes or things like that. But I mean once you're dead, you're dead. They would just cover like if any of your tattoo is going to show it like any kind of, which we don't really do like viewings and stuff, but if it was going to happen, they would just cover it up. So even if it was a tattoo of like a um Azusa or something. Yeah, I mean you're dead, it doesn't really matter. So you're gonna, your body's gonna decay. That's the whole point of jewish burial. You go back into the earth. Super traditionally distant. Like in a shroud, ideally just in a burial shroud and some dirt. Yeah, but it's not brutal enough for this book. It needs to be like sky burial. 20 pieces. Pretty eco friendly burial. That sky burial plus then the vultures like you, you make your way out following in the middle to the middle. Actuary mingle with the community. You know. Exactly. You can be shipped into somebody's car, yep. Giving back. That's right. I like that. My highest and best use, I heard they have trouble with that in India because I don't have enough vultures anymore. What? Yeah, keep trying to do sky, they want to keep doing sky burial, but they don't have enough vultures anymore to guarantee it'll work otherwise you just have a stinky place in your neighborhood. So because yeah, it's just, it's because of like overcrowding and habitat destruction and like chemical issues with eggs and stuff like that too. They've had troubles with that over the last decade, a couple of decades and it's hard for them because you know, being Zoroastrians, there's not a whole lot of other options you can do for burial that's acceptable for your religion. So always wish them luck. Yeah. Well at least after you're dead probably doesn't bug you too much. No, I would imagine that probably pretty chill with it at that point. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, um other chris um I, I feel like if I, if I, I got a tattoo, I don't think I ever would, but I think if I got one, it would have to be something ironic. Yeah. Like, um, I don't know. I think it would, it would probably be like a purposefully bad like chinese character tattoo. Like, like backwards or upside down or like, or like just a tattoo that says tattoo. Oh, I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. Like just something stupid like that. That like, I don't know. Yeah. The problem with it is that like people who don't know me won't know that I'm in on the joke I guess. But yeah, so I'd have to think of something, anything like that. Like people that would just think you didn't get it right. I got you. But like I, you know, I occasionally do see some like pretty hilarious ones on the, on the internet and I'm like, well, they definitely didn't know or like, or like they definitely put that into google translate, right? Yeah. Well what was, it wasn't an Ariana grande who tried to get seven rings tattooed on and instead was like a type of oven. Yeah, it was a little grill. She, she cheating? Yeah, yeah. She missed one of the character research is important. It is. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. I think I'm with both of you and that. I have no tattoos and I don't really plan on ever getting one. Like, I think I told you guys back in the chat that I had found like a web page where you could put in your own image and they get you like an advanced rub on tattoo. Yeah. Like I had a design, I thought about doing once, but then I was not even motivated enough to send in for a temporary tattoo to try it out. And so I'm like, it's probably, I'm, I'm bailing out on a temporary tattoo. The permanent one is probably a bad idea. Yeah, Yeah, understandable. I don't know. Maybe I'm gonna love this book so much that I have to get a dragon tattoo. Yeah, maybe we'll never know until we read it right? Get get the full uh, Yakuza Hozumi. Oh, that'd be something that would be pretty cool. At least a half sleeve or something. Right? Shoulder pieces. It would look totally badass on me like pasty white dad Bond guy. Like that guy is pretty cool. Well hey, then when you're running in a something a race or doing something intimidate here. No, I think they would probably know right away. That guy is opposed her. Mhm. Ah Anyway, so have either of you read this book or seen this movie before? Either version of the movie, I've seen both versions of the movie. Yeah, many, many years. Right, so I saw the back when netflix streaming is new, we watched all three of the Swedish movies. Oh yeah. Mhm And then I think I saw almost the end of creative theater right over a few years ago, but I know I'm safe, that's where I rented it for myself. Mhm It was a while ago. So like I have an idea of what to expect over all the details. Okay, that's fair. Other chris, have you read or seen this? I haven't, I haven't read it, but I, I did see the Fincher movie in the theater when it came out so many, many years ago, Many years ago, I guess it was 2011. So yeah, that's pretty long ago now. It's over a decade. Oh ship you're right. I was about to like, so that's like nine years ago, but nope, nope. No, it's not, nope. Oh boy. Yeah, well I have done none of those things. Okay. I remember thinking I should go see it because I like David Fincher and I know my parents have both read the book but don't know just I haven't been interested until now. So it'll be completely brand new to me. Mm hmm. Which is good. Right. Yeah, yeah, it is good. So here's some details I came up with about the book and the author. So the authors full name is Karl stig erland Larsson Born in 1954 And died in 2004. One thing I found out is that he changed his name to Steeg dig with the E in there because he already had a friend with the same name stig Larsson who was already a published author. Alright, you can have stick. I'll be stig. Uh I knew he had died before the series was finished, but actually he died before the book even came out in the United States. So, so like the three books he written had written didn't even come out before he died. I never got to enjoy that sweet. I guess not. He grew up with his grandparents, lived with them until he was nine because his parents were working in a smelting plant and you know, because Sweden he had to ski to school. Sure goddamn. I'm sure if he had had grandkids he would have told them about that as many many times, sucking. Skied to school uphill kids in the both ways somehow. Um he applied to the joint colleges of Journalism and Stockholm but failed the entrance exam. Mm hmm. But in, you know, classic fashion, he said fuck you and did it anyway, activists. Journalists just to show him he was involved in founding the Swedish expo foundation to quote, counteract the growth of extreme right and the white power culture in schools and among young people. So that is rising. Yeah, Yeah. And he also edited the group's magazine called expo mhm. Says he had a heart attack in November 2004 thanks to fast food and heavy coffee. Use cell claims into my picture. Yeah. It seems like a cool guy. I'd hang out with him. Yeah. Um Yeah, like, like I said, he wrote three books in this millennium series, which I gather is the name of the magazine in the book. I think it is. And then a lot of Kind of sketchy details about there being a 4th book that was incomplete and outlines for more. And he maybe even told his friend he was planning for the 6th, but all the other ones were written by other people. Mhm Yeah. To the book, the original Swedish title I won't try to pronounce but translates to Men who hate women. Okay, okay. Published in the United States in 2008. And he at least claims it was inspired by an event where he stood by while a lady he knew was gang raped. Goddamn Yeah. Well, he was 15. Um though there are people who question if that was a real thing that he really went through or just a story he overheard. So either way the lady in question is name was Lizbeth. Um so seems to be at least partial inspiration for the character named Elizabeth in the book who was also a rape survivor. Mm hmm, mm hmm. And also talked about there being parallels between Millennium and expo the magazine that he ran. So um seemed pretty well received one awards. Um the Glass Award in Sweden for best crime novel, the Anthony award for best first Novel and was even ranked by The Guardian as one of the top 100 books in the 21st Century. Wow, that's pretty cool. That is Yeah. And I bet he would have enjoyed to Be Alive to see that probably have been pretty cool with that. Um so yeah, the Swedish movies came out like The first three books were made into films that all released in 2009 in Sweden With New me. Mhm And Mikael Nyquist. Mhm. Being the lead roles on all three and the first one at least Is still certified fresh and made over $104 million dollars worldwide. So not a small film. Yeah, but the United States remade it anyway, because Funk, that reading is hard. So yeah, that came out as we said in 2009, David Fincher directed. But this time it had Rooney mara, has Elizabeth and Daniel Craig as the other guy and it features Stellan Skarsgard. So Daniel is probably gonna love this movie. She loves her scars. Garden. Oh plus the soundtrack has the Trent Reznor and atticus ross. Which I like those guys. Yeah it's it's pretty pretty solid. Yeah the american version made $230 million dollars in theaters and won an Oscar for film editing. So also well received. Um Also I should note that Rooney mara won the Saint Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Award for best Actress. So how does someone like how does ST louis Gateway Film Critics Association award anything to anyone like what is that? How how many film critics do we have? Probably five. How does that work? Did they just email her like by the way you want, did she show up to collect? Is that the whole idea they just tried to give, just wanted her to come. Yeah we'll pay for your hotel room for one night. If you come out fantasy invite. You know if it was still open then it would have been appropriate to have her state at the Millennium Hotel Book to life connection yep. Yeah. Oh man. Um And then there's some other detail about the Sequels like I probably should have done more research here. But I guess David Fincher was working on a version of the girl who played with fire but then Hollywood shit and it never happened. Okay. And then they start to the fourth book. Yeah, 2018. The girl in the Spider's Web. Yeah. But this time with Claire Foy and I guess probably something to do with like book rights since someone else owns the rights to the books he wrote. Yeah. First of the one the other people wrote, right? I'm willing to believe that's what it was. Not actually researching, confirming it. But now that that makes total sense. I'm with you. That sounds right. So I didn't see that one either. But I think you can watch it on the amazon Prime. So yeah, I watched it a few months ago. Yeah. Was it cool. I like I like clarify. Yeah, she's pretty good. She's good and stuff good. Like Rooney mara also. Mm hmm. Even like knew me. How do you even say his name by the way? I thought But is it I don't know. I've never really learned how to say her name properly. Why? Why don't we check the Wicca the weaker. You should see her pop up and stuff. To what? I haven't seen her a little while. I just probably wasn't watching the right project. Yeah. Look at you doing actual research, right? Yeah. But I've I've just I've just heard that's what I've heard. So settling age old debates here. Sure. The power of looking things up. Yeah. Internet internet research if you can call it that. Listen, I've learned other Googling something and clicking on the first link. Its research. Alright. So do we have any general expectations for this book? Is it going to be really grim? I think so. And I'm hoping I will be engaging. Like engaging if there's a way for a book to be gray. I I'd expect this book to be gray. Okay. Makes sense. Yeah. Whatever that means. That means to you. Okay. I did see some notes that people said the english translation is a little bit prettified. Which I don't know if that means because of the content or like the vote cam. I mean like Swedish and english aren't like super far apart. So it's not like mm hmm. Yeah. So it's it's not like um it would be hard to do a super direct translation I think. But like But yeah, if they're if they're saying it's been prettified, I have to say it's probably because the original is like using very direct speech or something. Like I I think that that is a characteristic of the genre that it is kind of like matter of fact. Um so if if people are complaining about it like being too Uh two pretty then that would that would make sense in that case I think mm Okay. Yeah, I'm ready for this to be totally funked up. I don't know. I think it will be a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think he'll be surprised. Well, yeah, I don't think he'll be surprised that it's funked up I guess. Yeah. It's gonna be like an episode of metal clips the whole way through. It's as brutal as possible in every aspect. Okay. So we'll do three sections then. So part one would be reading through chapter 11. Okay. And corrupt C 100 169 pages in my e book copy. Nice, Nice, nice. Good times. Mm hmm. All right, well, it's been a little while. Do you guys have anything else? That's good? You will stop sharing this now. You don't have to see it. Not everybody at once. Yeah. Alright, well, hmm I said not everybody at once. Dammit dammit. Other chris you were about to go. Let's see. Ah So we just, we just watched a couple episodes of a show from a couple of years ago called Southside and that's really funny. South side. Yeah, it's about, it's about guys that live on the south side of Chicago and like uh some, some characters I guess. Like it's ah it's really good. Hmm. Um So is it HBO maybe it's on the HBO does seem to be available there. Yeah. Yeah, but that's that's worth checking out. I think um if if it's the kind of thing that might interest you. Like definitely a more like uh black perspective on life in the south side of Chicago and like that kind of humor. Did you guys watching content also? Yeah, we did. Did you have strong opinions about it? Other chris? Um So like the songs were definitely lin Manuel Miranda. Like, like obviously who else would have written that and like uh I don't know like aside from that, like nothing, nothing super uh like notable about it for me I guess. Like it was it was fine. Yeah. Yeah, I liked it. We've enjoyed the soundtrack a lot over the last couple of weeks since we saw. It's very, yeah, I mean like the, you know, like he has a specific way of using like internal rhyme and like just rhythm. Like it's it's it's very recognizable as him I guess. Yeah, he really likes the I don't think it's really a reprise but bringing back other motifs Sometimes from other songs, sometimes from the same one in the Bruno song in particular. Like it's like peak Manuel in a song Miranda and I should say, oh hey, I'm off tomorrow. Okay, no school, no school tomorrow. Sorry, interrupt. That's good. Just got the notice. It is good because I was worried about it. Yeah, You can sleep until eight, yep tomorrow Because like I mentioned like really tomorrow, like tomorrow will be the first good day where there will be plenty of sun and it will be in the low 40s. So there's a good chance the roads will really start melting and stuff, which will be helpful because I like, so I tried getting out and I made it out of the neighborhood but down on the lower road because we're up on a hill, like it's always a lot slushy. Er and I almost got stuck as I tried to move over to the side to let a car by who didn't need to go by then I couldn't move forward. Oops, just spun in place so I'm like okay, let me back up. So that worked and I made it up the hill and got out. But then the other roads were like this, there's still snow, snowy, ice covered, so I think I'm gonna go home. That's what you get for helping somebody. Well today, it was just some of my own things. It was okay, right, Is that your thing? That's good, You don't have to go to school tomorrow, partially, partially. We watched each, you know, internals yesterday, which I actually liked. Like I know it didn't do very well and I understand why because the characters are kind of obscure for a lot of marvel's movie fans, but I thought it was really good marvel movie otherwise like I don't, I'm like okay, there's a lot of people to pay attention to, but oh well, like does involve that much work and I thought it was pretty good fit in with all the other ones and it'll be fun to have some of the characters pop up in like the Guardians of the Galaxy movies or something like that, I think that's what will come into play more. Yeah, an upcoming lifecycle that they're building out. So it was good, it was fun to see Angelina Jolie in the marvel movie. Yeah, so yeah, I think those characters were interesting in that you could see some parallels between dc characters. They were trying to because they're Jack Kirby characters. So we had a really great moment to like, sorry to spoil it for people haven't seen it. There's a kid who mentions one of the characters kind of reminding him of like Superman and we're like, so Superman is a comic book in the marvel universe. I just, I wouldn't think of it that like that way, I mean like, like I assume they will. Yeah, but I just assumed they live, they all existing universes where these genres don't exist or these like Okay, so so uh like two things to say about that one is um that like yeah, going going back to something like Watchman or something like that, where they're like, we don't have superhero comics, Everyone reads pirate comics. Um But then um but I would say actually like talking about marvel comics um marvel comics exist in marvel comics. Like like yeah, like like I'm thinking about like an issue of of Gwen Pool that I read a while back, where she meets dr strange and they go tripping through the Multiverse a little bit um and and he like mentions that he's uh I think that he actually mentions that he's being played by Benedict Cumberbatch and how like, like that's a pretty good choice or whatever. Like you know, like commenting on it basically like in this other universe where we're just comic books like yeah, I have an ultimate Spider man where he showed up on the set of the Spider man movie with Sam Raimi and yelled at Tobey Maguire for being shitty. He told Sam Raimi that uh what was it? Uh Evil Dead was good, but nothing since then. That's hilarious. So yeah, you're right, okay. But yeah, I liked Internals also. I thought it took a little while to get to the point. Yeah it does, but when it did it was really enjoyable. Yeah, I thought so. I had problems keeping everyone uh straight for a little bit but I was like didn't we just watch a Disney movie about a whole family with superpowers and it's totally easy to keep them straight. Like they just needed an intro song exactly that would have solved their problems. They needed the girl from Brooklyn 99 to come and sing us a song about all the internals. Like like I don't know a lot about these specific characters or the forces at play in their universe. I'm not a big comical person and it's not in most of the major, but at least at the very least I was like oh celestial, isn't that what star Lord's dad was? He was one of those, but I think he's one of the bad ones type of deal and I'm like okay, I've heard of this and now we're finally getting based on the movie universe, some more details about this. And I thought kind of, the whole, the crux of the dilemma facing was actually pretty serious and interesting for a marvel movie because it's natural forces that, you know, they can explain that they're dealing with. And I'm like okay, that's a really hard choice to have to make. Yeah. Yeah, but people should see it. It's well worth the watch, especially now that it's free on the service agreed. So it was also like one of the only marvel movies I can think of where the after credits scene like who the hell is that? Why do I care about that? All right, well, I'm gonna have to check it out I guess. Yeah. And if you're a big comical person, that guy makes sense. So if you have one around, you'll be like cool, awesome. They explained it for me, but it also links it with, I was also told it also links it with Guardians three, so that'll be helpful. Oh okay, that would make sense and the holiday special that's coming up. Mhm or whatever, right. Alright, cool. Well the thing I was going to bring up uh an audiobook I'm listening to called the immortal ists bye Chloe Benjamin, uh I'm getting close to the end, although I don't, you know, if I have quite figured out the point they're trying to make. But The idea of it is it's a story about four brothers and sisters Who in the 70s in New York go to like a fortune teller and all found out exactly when they're going to die, okay then how they all react to that um and go on living their lives and stuff. So the the first couple is like they stepped through each kid and tell their story and the first couple of them run away from home and go to san Francisco in the Castro district and that guy joins the ballet and stuff and then his sister gets into um sleight of hand magic and like mental is um that kind of thing. So it kind of steps through all their different life stories and I haven't quite gotten to the point where it is going to pay off what all they are doing. But each one of the stories on its own right is pretty interesting and it focuses a lot on, you know, family heritage and jewish tradition and you know, um other marginalized parts of society like uh huh gay men in san Francisco and minorities in particular and immigrants and stuff like that. So it's all very interesting, just hasn't quite connected to the whole yet, but the lady who's reading it is doing a great job too. So I'm very interested worth checking out, especially if you have an audible credit sitting around. I do. I just got one. So I think I'm okay. The last few books I've gotten with it are nonfiction. I'm due for something like this. Bye Maggie Hoffman. Yeah, she's great terms. The current learning about is learning about longevity in rhesus monkeys. Oh, but I just started her section so I don't quite know what her deal is yet Because the current book I'm listening to is Neil Ferguson's early 2000s. Hope is the House of rothschild. Hmm. But they only have the first book on audible. It's a two volume set, so I'm only going to get to listen to the early years they teamed through in the 19th century and then the 2nd volume would cover like The late 19th to 20th century. Mhm Well that's pretty good. There's a lot of details, a lot of details because Neil Ferguson is detailed. He's not always liked by everybody, but he does good history. That's the important part. That's always good. Yeah. And it was interesting to read because here's this kind of gentry ish british guy doing it. Was doing who did a super detailed look into the Rothschilds and actually got to like look at some of their family archives and stuff was like the first non jewish person to be allowed to look at him and stuff. Right. Any base, most of his work to instead of just stuff that are even published about them, other people, he did it just like on their letters, like their personal correspondence and stuff, wow, so it's pretty, it's a pretty interesting look, apparently getting to read about there, read their correspondence, which wasn't always easy because they had tendency, especially the Meyer Amstel and his initial son, his immediate sons there who started it all, they liked to write their letters, they would write in german by using Hebrew characters. So if you don't know german well and you don't know the hebrew alphabet well, it's hard to, it's very hard to read. No chance. No, like not even like Yiddish, it's just, it's just german written with Hebrew, so I guess they kind of made up some of their spellings and stuff. Hmm, yeah, get another one downloading, That sounds, will be interesting. I always pick these books that are like 25 hours long, so that's one of them listening to Krypton american every now and then. That's also super long. Yeah, well, Stevenson, so they're, they're gonna, they're gonna be redoing all of the terry pratchett discworld. Perfect. Yeah, with, with like cool people reading and like certain people like uh they have like uh yeah, they have, they have different people doing like um different different, some of the different characters anyway and each, I think maine, I mean sort of series is read by the same person. So like, you know, one person is doing the wizards and one person is doing the witches and like um I wondered and like it's it's it's all like uh like pretty famous english british actors. I tried to get some like a year ago that they've had, here's some of at least some of his some of these books on audible, but they had all been pulled and it said like I couldn't get them anymore, even though I had one in like my list, like my my want list, like, nope, you have to be in the UK using audible to be able to buy this. Okay, I guess they just had some issue, but that makes perfect sense. They were working out I guess a deal to make new ones and make them have better ones or something. Yeah, they, they like I saw the I saw the cast before and it looked like it was going to be amazing. Let me let me pull that up really quick actually, I'm going to allow this. Okay. Yeah, because I got a I gotta I gotta name some names I guess. Yeah. Alright, so confirmed names. Uh so Bill Nagy, uh he's he's going to be during the voice of terry Pratchett in the footnotes. Uh Peter Serafinowicz is the Voice of Death, Perfect, Nice. Um and Dear of Armagh uh is uh narrating I think the the witches series and Colin morgan, the guy from Merlin is doing um the wizards, I think oh um and Andy Serkis is reading Small Gods. Oh, that's cool, That would be fun. Yeah, so like uh and you know, that's just who we've got like so far, I guess. Like it sounds like, you know, each, like I said each different sort of sub series is going to be read by somebody else. Well that's good, that'll be fine. Yeah. What about crossovers? I think like I bring the one lady over if there's witches in the other story, you know, I I kind of wonder if if it'll be like, yeah, one person reads one chapter, another person reads another chapter, like depending on sort of who's the main point of view. Yeah, that sounds really cool. Yeah, I'm like, I'm pretty excited about it. Like I don't I don't usually go in for for audiobooks and like, terry pratchett in particular, like his his writing is such that, I don't know, I like to read it because I mhm. Every once in a while he writes something that I have to read multiple times, like just go back and read the same sentence or the same paragraph again, because it's so goddamn clever, like. Yeah, and a lot of his jokes work better on the written page anyway, like seeing the words. Yeah, I feel like I would miss some of it if someone just read it to me and be like, oh just fly right through my head. Yeah. But yeah, I'm pretty excited about that, so What are you finishing that 1? Yeah, let's see. Well, I think they got one of them out now. So there they're going through this, this site says uh let's see. 40 unabridged books, four million words, 100 and 35 days, jesus 420 hours of audio. Yeah. All right, so are they starting with the color of magic or I don't know what order they're doing them in? I don't know, Fair enough. I'm doing whole storylines, storylines at once but or groups of storylines I should say. Anyway, sounds cool. It does. Alright guys, anything else to add? No, not from my end. Alright, I'm hitting stop on this recorder then. Okay, mm hmm. I did it hooray! Okay, that was our session for today. Quick Reminder. If you're planning to read along with us your homework for next time, is to read up to Chapter 11. So once you're done with Chapter 10, you're good In my print copy of the book. That takes you all the way to page 161 which is a lot, but in our experience, once you got into it, it didn't nearly seem that long as always listening back to these recordings while I edit them, gives me a chance, not only to cringe at having to hear my own voice, but it also affords me the opportunity to rethink, revise or restate something. I might have messed up earlier. So let's close today with a segment known as on 2nd thoughts just throwing out a general apology for any mispronunciations already made or soon to be made while trying to say names and words in Swedish. I wish I was better at these things, but I'm really not to the Ariana grande stands the grand Iniesta's. I wasn't trying to make fun of her for accidentally getting a seven rings hibachi grill tattoo, you know, with the amount of mistakes I make even a casual twitter post. I would be paranoid to the point of paralysis, putting anything permanent on my body if I couldn't run it through a spell checker. But that's just me, today's episode received a local Film Critics Excellence Award, which was summarily turned down by chris chris, hamm, chris, other chris, Jacobson. It was edited by me, Travis row and was sponsored by No one in particular until next time. Keep sucking reading. Mhm chris proved to me his resourcefulness the other night when we're trying to figure out the pronunciation of a street in France and he used his um google street view, which is in japanese for some reason, I still can't figure out why the bucket does that to get the instead of it's a very unique situation to be in that. You could even try that. But like, yeah, I don't know how like uh you're, you're not looking at stuff in the United States. So you must want it in Japanese, you must want that google. I don't know what the funk they think about me. Yeah, they don't know. Now lately lately I've been getting Youtube ads about like korean Mcdonald's and yeah, we web tunes. Yeah. So you know, you know like, right, like it would be interesting to know what korean Mcdonald's are up to bakery items, items. Yeah, but they're trying to get me to buy like bakery items and coffee. I love bakery items and coffee, right?