The Flop House - FH Mini 18 - Rattlesnake!

Episode Date: November 14, 2020

Renowned author Stuart Wellington gives us a reading from his early work: a stirring epic about snakes.

Okay, hey, it's me, Stuart Wellington, the Flapphouse podcast. Now normally on this podcast, we watch a bad movie then talk about it. But tonight, oh, you're in for a treat. We're not doing anything movie related at all. Just let you know I'm Stuart Wellington. I'm Dan McCoy, I guess. I'm Ellie Kaelin, just astonished at how smooth and professional Stewart is as a host right out of the box. Don't know why this is the first time he's doing this

since he's really got the gams, you know. Somehow, yeah. I don't know, you know, I think it's beginner's luck. Okay, so tonight instead of watching a bad movie and talking about it, I am going to introduce YouTube fellows, my co-hosts, to a little book that I wrote when I was a child, an age I don't know, nor is there any mention of how old I am.

A book called Rattlesnake, I just texted you the cover. Now this is a original work of fiction by me that is accompanied by illustrations. Now those illustrations I will be sending you over the course of the book as I read it out loud to you. I'm free to make constructive comments if you wish. I love, so here on the cover it's a flag that it's a little wavy but you can tell that it says don't tread on me. I'm gonna give you a little one topical, love it. It's really tapping into the political divisibility of our times.

Two, tread is spelled wrong. I'm gonna chalk that up to your age at the time, which is, I am assuming younger than 15. But I will say the one thing I wanted to say is very legible writing, which is not true of many children. Yes, and I like the logo. The Rattlesnake logo, which looks like it's made out of wood, doesn't necessarily look like a snake, but it does look like a Flintstones type thing, which I like the logo the Rattlesnake logo, which looks like it's made out of wood doesn't necessarily look like a snake

But it does look like a Flintstone's type thing which I like. Yeah, I don't know are there you think those are speed lines or those scales? I will say that you got you know, that's it's sort of a bubble lettering your there's not a lot of consistently Consistency to that whatever faunch you're you're trying to get across here, but But it's good. It's good. It's it's very clear. Yeah, yeah I was just talking talking to somebody about how doing like an animal print or an animal pattern is harder than you would think because it has to be like both natural natural and also like a little bit Like asymmetrical, you know what I mean? Mm-hmm

I think that's what I was trying to go for here. Obviously, you know, I guess it's up to the audience to decide how well I achieved my goal. So let's dig into this. Now this is a not a particularly long book. I think it is wait. Ooh, six pages. There's a seventh page with a number. There is nothing on that page.

So that's so your reach exceeded your grasp. The future is unwritten. Sure, sure. I just, I want to mention that. Sir, a conner told you that one, right? For, I just, I want to mention for the record, my son, Sammy's book, The Mystery of the Sinky Cheese, which unfortunately will be, the ending will be untold

on this podcast, nine pages. So I'm not saying that my son is smarter than you, Stuart. I'm merely saying he has more story to tell. I mean, I'm longer the book the better, right? I child endeavor. A nine page book might as well be warrant piece. I have to say that's a lot of commitment. Okay. So let us begin the tale of a rattlesnake. One cool fall morning, an eastern diamond-back rattlesnake inched toward his prey. His prey was a mouse that was making a breakfast of seeds and nuts that fell from a tree. Getting just close enough to strike the rattlesnake,

slowly rears its head back in strike position. Now, okay, I mean, just off the bat, there are a couple things that occur to me. Number one, strike position seems like a very steward, like a turn of phrase, like even at this young age, you had a real personality. I like that, you've,'ve uh I guess mimicked the stream of consciousness thinking of the rattlesnake by running two different sentences getting just close enough to strike and the rattlesnake slowly reads its head back a strike position into one sentence reading getting just close enough to strike the rattlesnake slowly reads its head back in strike position which

maybe think the mouse was about to strike the rattlesnake at first but then oh no no no finish that sense yeah I, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, you're like, I liked that he's you say he was making a breakfast of season nuts rather than having a breakfast season as I mean like it you know neither one is more correct than the other and I think making is a more unique turn of phrase. Well, I like just mentioning that that it came from it fell off a tree because that means we don't have to worry about a prequel to rattlesnake that explains the origin of that breakfast. There is no tree depicted in the illustration. Well, let's move on to the illustration. Yeah.

So this rattlesnake looks a little bit like one of those, it looks more like a sock puppet than a snake, but... There's something kind of seesaw the sea serpent about him. Yeah. Just as mentioned, it is the morning the sun is rising in the distance over the horizon line and the rattlesnake is positioned between what might be too many volcanoes. They could be too garbage bags Yeah, I thought it was garbage. Yeah, because there's two leaves that are either hanging in midair or somewhere on the ground behind The rail snake. Yeah, there's a lot of symmetry here. There's two, two what I assumed were rocks, twin peaks, if you will, and then two leaves

falling from the sky and then a little mouse. And then the Reynolds snake's tail, unlike a normal traditional rattle, which tapers, is just kind of a uniform thickness like a pencil eraser or perhaps an unsurping sized penis. It looks like a big ray March mellow But it is a nice picture, you know, yeah, oh, thank you. It's a good snake. It's got personality number two Moving on suddenly lunging his whole body weight forward extending his dagger like fangs He finally grasped his target.

Finally, slowly, steadily, the poison is venom enters his prey, releasing the mouse, the rattlesnake waits for the venom to react. After the mouse is dead, the rattlesnake starts the slow process of swallowing his prey. Now it's both, it's both scientifically accurate and also makes we worry that this is a young serial killer in the making. Now Stuart I mean we're gonna now the the the nature of this podcast is such that we're gonna burn you a lot during this but I have to say you know for a child again like unless this was you know done when you're say 16 and we missed judge things. Yeah. Some impressive writing because you got you've got like a dependent clause here. You've got like releasing the mouse comma. The rails make weights for the venom to react.

And that comma makes up for the lack of comma in commas and other sentences that needed them. So I also enjoy the way like you have we didn't talk about this before, but the words here are not handwritten. You have done like a little paste up here with a typewritten words on your illustrations as if, you know, this is going to be, this is ready to be sent to the printer. Oh, yeah, absolutely. But now, speaking of word choice, lunging is really good. Poisonous venom is a bit redundant, but it's very evocative.

Dagger like fangs, I love that. Yeah, there's a lot of, this is some very visceral writing, which is great. Yeah, I think I'm really trying to draw the reader in. Now, obviously, the illustration you you have those two rocks again. There seems to be some kind of pale of hay behind him. Yeah, to spring of wheat. And the rattle snake. It's the kind of spring of wheat you might see

inside of like a all-white vase next to a fireplace in an interior decorating magazine, yeah. And the snake is negotiating the space between these two rocks, like it's in, you know, that snake video game. Yeah, I mean, the rocks themselves have shrunk quite a bit since the previous page, but I'd like the consistency of their being there, even if they are not, you know, it's to scale. Yeah, it's, I mean, it's, I mean, Scott McCloud would praise me for my visual story. He would, I'm sure he would, yes. And as you'll see, at this point, the snake is already swallowing his prey. And the snake, the rendering of the snake has a

pleasing three-dimensional shading quality to it. Thank you. Okay, after he completely digested the mouse. We have some comments about this illustration when we get to that part. Okay, after he completely digested the mouse, he slithers to a hiding spot. Very soon it is night. Since rattlesnake are nocturnal, he slowly moves out of crack in the rock. Okay, setting aside some of the missing letters and words in these sentences, this drawing has a sort of uh, unpleasing aspect to it, which I'm gonna say is that it appears to be a rattlesnake emerging from a vagina, perhaps. The the the rock is has a cleft in it that makes it appear as a human buttocks. Yeah, it has a vaginal quality

And then yes the rock's top Has the arc of some buttocks although Also the you know the mouse ate this or say the snake ate this mouse and there's like now a bump And now the bump is the rock, but it does kind of bring to mind the little prince The snake who was eating an elephant. Yeah, or it could be a hat. Yeah, sure. But the left and the rock really does appear.

Yeah, I'm not doing myself any favors about it. I will have to take you to task for there's some tense issues here. After he completely digested the mouse. He slithers to a hiding spot. So, yeah, you're kind of jumping around in time, but again, pretty sophisticated. But that's okay, I mean, it's after he digested, that's in the past and slithers in the present.

It's on orthodox, but, you know, he's just trying to distract from the fact that this snake has made its home inside of the human genitalia. Yeah, sure. Yeah. Yeah. I like that you said since rattlesnake are nocturnal, that use of the singular for the plural is very like I like it, it has a given an epic quality to it, an old Bale wolf

being epic. Yeah, that's what I was shooting for. Okay, let's see. Let's move on to the next page here. There's also seems to be, and this might be getting a little too in the weeds, but there seems to be some disagreement on the page over what number this is. Maybe we're just seeing through to the next page.

But it looks like you're raising number. No, no, no, no, no, I think you're right. I think so. I wasn't quite sure what page we were on. Now, Stuart, I want to pause here for a moment and ask you what kind of research you do. Well, I'm sure there's a work cited page at the end, right? In fact, actually, there's a note for my teacher that criticized me for not

including a bibliography. Bibliography, Stuart's brain. Okay. So moving on. Suddenly, he hears the special rattle. It is the rattle of a lady looking for a mate. He moves slowly at first, then faster. He passes a bush, and there in the clearing,

next to a wood pile, is the lady rattle. Now it feels like the picture from before, now it seems like the subtext is just becoming the text. I guess you're right. But with passing the bush and all. But also, what I like is that you leave us in suspense whether it is a lady rattlesnake or a human lady when it's the rattle of a lady.

But it is a lady rattlesnake. I can't feel, guys, guys, was stewardow was little steward a horny boy. I mean, you would know better than us for snakes. For snakes specifically, I mean, I, again, I commend the complexity of the sentences. He passes a bush comma and they're in the clearing next to a wood pile comma is the lady rattlesnake. I do, I wonder though, now is this accurate to snake mating procedures?

Do they mate based on? I especially like, I was very into like various forms of reptiles and dinosaurs as a kid, but I don't, I kind of haven't kept up with that hobby, so I can't tell you if it was right. There is a sort of a Zork as aspect to this, a sort of text game as you mention each of the landmarks that it passes. It's all about world building, even at a young age, that was all about creating a universe.

And to Dan's point, if there are any herpetologists listening to this, please let us know it right in and let us know if there is a special rattle that represents sexual arousal in a lady rattlesnake. Oh, shit's about to get real, guys. Oh, as he inches toward the lady rattlesnake, he feels the presence of another boy. As he looks around the clearing, he sees the other boy. The two boys move toward each other as they lock in combat. Then they begin the death game. Again, a very short turn of phrase.

During the game, pain rings all throughout his back. He uncoils to see what had hit him. He sees a person baby. Suddenly a shot rings out. The bullet just grazes him, but hits the other rattlesnake. Oh, oh, rattlesnake, good-eaten. Okay, well. He's got some dialogue editors.

Yeah, I, you know, leaving aside for a moment, this sort of cliffhanger here, where, you know, yeah, someone is not a cliffhanger, the story. Well, someone that I'll say is dead. We know, we know that like, we don't know who this person is, who says, who rattles like good evening. I just want to ask you, Elliot, as a person who has had two person babies in your life.

Is this accurate to your experience of having person babies? Are they? In that I will just leave them in clearing snacks to woodpiles in the hopes that they will draw out rattlesnakes that I can then shoot because that's good. Got to feed your family. There's a lot of good meat and not a rattlesnake. It's like a slim gym that can walk. Can walk?

Well, you know, crawl. So, so my, you know, we're nearing the end of this. This page, this page has a real Robert E. Howard influence on it. I feel very strong. So my mother mailed me this worker fiction that I had made as a child. And at the time when I got it a couple months ago, I read it. And reading it again now, I'm still surprised by every page. That's the mark of great fiction.

What now? I will say your rattles seem to have improved on this page. You can. Thank you. I was waiting for you guys to say that. They have the distinctive stacker look to it. Exactly. You can discern the individual coils rather than in the past

where again, it looked like sort of like maybe the bottom of a chair. Yeah, like an old-timey microphone. Yeah. Yeah. You've got to, on the other hand, while the tail end of this rattlesnake, it's hard to know which is the original and which is the intruder. Well, the tail end of the rattlesnake is very well delineated and rendered. The head seems to have turned into like, it's a little hard to tell. It's got kind of a tombstone shape to it. You can kind of see the mouth, I think. I think we are to believe this is from below. We're seeing, you know, snakes don't really have like a traditional chin in the way, you know, a human might, but I think we're seeing below,

like a traditional chin in the way, you know, a human might. But I think we're seeing below, below the snakes head, the chin area, and the eyes are away from us, maybe? Yeah, it's the underside. I think it's the underside of the snake, yeah. Yeah, he's like, he's, uh, he's been shot, and he's falling back. He's like, oh, he shot the wrong snake. I just noticed, I just noticed the hole, yeah. Yeah, I thought that was the snake's belly button

and I was like snakes are not placental. They hatched megs and so don't have umbilicals or belly buttons, but I was like, maybe this is a cute snake with a little little bit of belly button, I don't know. No, it's possible, yeah, or a cool piercing or something. Yeah, the one thing that is unsturered like about this is there's no arterial spray from that hole. That's true

Yeah, okay. Well, that's because that snake's cold blooded so all this blood froze and it doesn't flow out Oh, I see yeah The rattlesnake finally found a mate Later the pair of rattlesnakes had a clutch of eggs which resulted in a group of identical baby rattlesnakes had a clutch of eggs, which resulted in a group of identical baby rattlesnakes. On that fateful day, when the boy rattlesnake was run over by a truck, the driver was not obeying the don't tread on me flag. The baby rattlesnakes were there to take

the boy rattlesnakes place. Wow. Now, there's a lot boy rattlesnakes place. Now, a lot to unpack right at the end. This is this is just like the parts into the lighthouse where the events of the family's lives are just kind of glossed over while we hear about what's going on just in the house and how the furniture is settling and the dust falls in the light. This is that the natural world it works at a different pace than each of our individual little minor blink of a story.

And like to the lighthouse, it kind of touches on the idea of the sun becoming overtaking the father. Like that's something, right? Generations taking their place. And I like it so that cliffhanger of who shot the rattlesnake is never answered. It's just some,

never answered. Some's just some never answered some yoga. I assume wearing say like a overalls with one strap undone underneath is like a peek a boo long underpants. He's got a straw and a piece of straw in his mouth kind of straightly long white beard. No mustache just on the chin just a chin does possibly a clay jug with three X's marked on. I think possibly likely and and now he's going to take it back to his to his life. It's not easy. Yeah. I mean but these are all these are all just moments in this

rattlesnakes life like we're just getting snatched at this well. I like yeah. I say on that fateful day when the boy rail stake was run over by a truck now that assumes that this was Inevitable like we all knew this was gonna. It's for told in legends like ragna rock. Yeah, and then we all have trucks coming for You didn't clarify then it's a parenthetical phrase that the the parenthetical is the driver was not Obang the don't tread on me flag I like that you felt like you needed to explain why a truck might run over a snake.

Oh, I took there's like a punkish little jape from a young Stuart kind of like, I guess he wasn't looking at the flag since he did. I mean, he didn't just, he didn't tread on that rattlesnake. He ran right over it. Yeah, that's true. I mean, it's not it's not like it's truck

instead of wheels just had four feet that were treading out. No, it's not Fred Flintstone's car. In which case, you would not want to drive over rattlesnake because it can still bite you, but in this case, and the image, of course, to describe for the readers, there is just two lines delineating either side of a road, very, uh, bevelmans in their, in how simple it is and yet, how evocative. And the top half of the, of the rattlesnake and, uh, representing the fact that it has, I guess, been crushed is just a few dots, uh, where it has been separated from the rest of its body. I will say this must be a very large rattlesnake based on, uh, you know,

comparing it to the road size. Yeah, yeah, this half of a rattlesnake crosses most of the road. It's possible it's a bike path. That's true. Maybe it is. It is an Eastern Diamondback rattlesnake. I believe they can get pretty big there. I mean, I saw Diamondback, I guess actually, you know, it wasn't Eastern.

I saw Diamondback in my neighbor's yard a few weeks ago. And it wasn't big enough to stretch across an entire lane of a highway necessarily, but it was pretty big. It was a sizable snake. Now I also like to believe. You got any pictures to back the story up? I don't have pictures and therefore we have to believe it didn't happen. I imagine that the rattlesnake in its final death throws managed to crawl into the bike

lane, maybe in the hopes that it could get some strength from a passing bicyclist. And that's why the road is so narrow. Uh-huh, yeah. We get some strength from a passing bicyclist now. Yeah, you know, bite onto the tire and let that air just puff it up. Yeah, or like you would bite one of the bicyclists, they would die and turn into a turkey leg, which he could then consume for To get his energy bar up. Yeah, and we I mean we did we did sort of address this already, but I do want to talk a little bit more about how this Book ends yeah, it does end on a cyclical note the idea that mm-hmm. Yeah, of course this

The it says the baby rattlesnakes were there to take the boy rattlesnakes place Yeah, yeah, you know just reminding us all that it's all transitory, you know, and that we're all interchangeable basically Yeah, they are identical to remind my dad about all the time I see their identical baby rattlesnakes each one At it at us the spur of a moment You just pick one up, doesn't matter which, they're all the same. One of them dies, toss it away, replace it with its son. And that's, yeah, that's how God treats people too.

We're all the same. Now I wouldn't recommend picking up those rattlesnakes, Ali. Just as a tip for you. Born a snake handler, die a snake handler, that's my motto. Yeah. So yeah, that was rattlesnake and a work of fiction by me. Obviously TM TM, nobody can steal rattlesnake from me. Not like, I think I wrote a follow-up that was basically romancing the stone, but from the snake's perspective, I think it was like a what if scenario where instead of Michael Douglas killing

a snake, the snake survived and then became the hero of the story. That's the, yeah, that is very intriguing. I don't know if I have a copy of that line around, but maybe this is just the kind of teaser that this podcast needs to, I don't know, get into the big leagues. How do you get into the big leagues of podcast and Dan? Uh, something, well, I assume it involves big league chew in some way. Yeah. And it helps. It's a person hosting is already a famous celebrity.

Oh, okay. Well, I'm not that. Well, and I'm talking, we're doing a podcast where I'm reading a book about a rattlesnake. I wrote as a child. Yeah. While standing in your storage room, while standing in your storage room, while standing in my storage room, yep, live in the dream.

Now Stuart, I like that, it sounds like even when you're young, you had found your muse, which was snakes. Uh huh, yep. And so what other snake works are you working on now? How else are you telling the story of the life of a snake at the more mature story telling tools you are now working on now? How else are you telling the story of the life of a snake at the more mature storytelling tools you are now having your kit? That's the thing, I mean like I guess the next step I've already done a snake, I've done a rattlesnake and I think the remains of the stone rip off was about a bushmaster

which is also a snake. Maybe I will have to do a cobra, maybe I'll have to do research, because clearly this book was clearly well researched. I mean, I mentioned an Eastern diamond back. I mentioned how the mating ritual involved a special rattle. I used a region-specific dialogue from the Yoko who who shot the rattlesnake

now Stuart We did mention that your Your teacher you know rate you over the colds for not for no biblia but Do you have a grade on this to do you know what you got? I have I have a post-it note that's stuck on the inside of this book. There is, it just, it's, the post-it note has the image of a rose on it with a little bird carrying it, and it says, for all you do, this buds for you.

Like, it doesn't relate to my story at all, but that's okay. Here's the note, the note says Stuart, I like the humor and the way you drew the pictures. But there was no bibliography and only two communications. I don't quite know what that means. So it was a dot, dot, dot. I think there was a second note and the note is gone. So we don't have to figure it out. I will say that. I mean, like, the criticism goes that's not the best I have read.

I mean, I think that the book itself surpasses the critique, you know, thank you. Thank you. I mean, it's rare that the criticism is better than the art that it's critiquing. Let's just be fair to the teacher on this one. It's rare that someone's like, I love that movie, but did you read the review of the movie? I mean, I would hope that there's been movies that are podcasts covered that people

prefer our podcast to, but... Yeah, but I wouldn't compare your book to one of those movies. Come on. Thank you. That's really why we did this so you guys would admit that my book is good and should be turned into a movie so Hollywood call me up so Stewart who you're gonna cast as a rattlesnake in the inevitable movie now that this book has heat on it John C. Riley obviously that. That guy's great. He can do anything. Also, he's got a kind of energy that I'm into. And I could see him like fighting for love,

fathering children, and then inevitably dying. Now, I get what you're saying, but do you think he's sinuous enough to be a snake? That's true. I mean, if we're just basing it on sinuacity, you'd have to be what? Doug Jones? Yeah. I think I mean, he's pretty much the only sinuous actor in Hollywood these days, you know? Uh-huh. Yeah. What if?

Yeah. Do you think that there's parts that are being written and they're like, Doug Jones type? And they're like, oh, and they're like, Doug Jones type. And they're like, uh, it's like the evil skeleton parentheses, 20s, Doug Jones type. Let's hear all the stories about. No, like fucking watch this movie.

Yeah, like, you hear all the stories about actors going in and auditioning for roles where they're like described as like X type and they are X themselves and not getting the roles. But I cannot imagine something going in and be like and like Doug Jones going in and be like Doug Jones type and like not getting in. Well, that's exactly what happened with the movie X versus sever. Was it described as an X type and X did not get the part strange enough. Weirdly sever played X and X plays sever. Yeah. Well, that was a little game they played.

They made a bet with each other. So, yeah. So I think Doug Jones, he could play the body of the snake and maybe John C. Rally does like the voice. Yeah, and then they also have to mocap the face because I mean, I need John C. Rally's face. There's a commercial that plays during Jeopardy every night in Los Angeles for the lottery. Do you guys have the same commercial where it is a human finger with a man's, or maybe it's for Casino, a human finger with a man's face on the end of it and he's gonna press a like a casino touch screen and it

is the most frightening thing and it's on TV every night. Just this humid, this giant finger with a man's face and then going, ah, I guess. Yeah, your children wake up with nightmares from this face finger. Oh, well, I wake them up and I say, come in here. I gotta show you something. Yeah. And then you say, think about that. Think of what hell it would be to be a finger. Yeah.

Not to change the subject too much, guys. But while we're here, I might as well tell you about this dream I had last night, where I met Chris Hemsworth at a kid's soccer game. And my son invited him to come to lunch with us. And he asked us what we're gonna have And I said he was probably seven and a half feet tall eight feet tall on this dream He's a hugely tall man in the dream and my son goes pizza and he goes I could go for a pizza sure And I'm like what am I gonna talk to Chris Hemsworth about it lunch

And this one I woke up so guys what should I talk to Chris after about it lunch? It should I have this dream again, you know? Oh, geez. Oh, well, I mean, ask it. I mean, you got to start with what he wants on his pizza, right? Yeah. That's a good, but I mean, that's going to get exhausted pretty quickly, because we'll order the pizza.

I mean, you know, to tie it in, you could talk to them about the snakes of Australia. They have a lot of the world's deadliest snakes there. That's very true. You should ask him if they if they have any If they have any pizza toppings in Australia that we don't have here in America Did they twirl the pizza the opposite direction when they're positive in the air? Probably what had they throw it at the floor instead of up at the ceiling. Yeah, sure Yeah, that's what the choreo is effective Yeah Like that's why they that's why they've never eaten pizza in Australia because like oh the floor

I don't know where to forget about it Yeah, it's like right like when somebody scores a touchdown in a football game Australia throw the ball in the air instead of bouncing on the grass Yeah, they throw it up there and when they sneeze in Australia the spit goes back into their heads there's a touchdown in a football game Australia. Throw the ball in the air instead of bouncing out on the ground. Yeah, they throw it up in the air. And when they sneeze in Australia, the spit goes back into their heads. Everything's backwards in Australia.

Yeah, and Australia, and Bizarra is called Super Band. Yeah. So Australia and listeners, I know that we have quite a few based on our breakdown. If you aren't angry at us, write us in. And let us know if we're accurate on this. Yeah. Okay, well, thanks for letting me read my book, Gaiese. Oh, it was wonderful.

Thank you for sharing it with us. Yeah, thank you for having your authors reading with us here at the flop as Yeah, you guys got the exclusive and We're part of the Max von podcast network our normal episodes are I don't know slightly more focused on this Thanks to our producer Jordan Cowling thanks to my friends Dan McCoy and Elliot Kaylen and I am author of Rattlesnake Stuart Wellington. Maximumfund.org, comedy and culture. Artist-owned, audience supported.

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