Wherein the narrator, after eight months of research, tests the extent of his knowledge about the 1920s before jumping into a new project.

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Wherein the narrator meditates on a recent New Yorker article about "Moms for Liberty."

Wherein the narrator, still on the topic of spooky things for the month of October, explains his fears of needing to poop in traffic, the way Elmore Leonard and Louis L'Amour shot people, and recounts some facts from the ongoing research around his newly-finished book: stuff about the slave trade, witchcraft, and why JSTOR is the intellectual's thriftshop.

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Wherein the narrator, talking about the new HALLOWEEN movie, digresses into how he thought, as a kid, that every "author" was a single man named "Arthur," and also took a really long time to learn anything.

Wherein the narrator commences 2022's EHPOKY COMBERSACION series on Halloweenish topics for the month of October, including night terrors, a restless pitbull, and the new movie BARBARIAN, which is great.

Wherein the narrator meditates on what a terrible detective or lawyer he would be, had his life gone that rout, and then enumarates on how terrible a restaurant worker he is at present -- and the workplace bully who's keen to remind him.

Wherein the narrator riffs, belatedly, about the new Leonard Cohen documentary and signs off on the last of those I'm-still-switching-apartments episodes.

In which the narrator talks with the best-selling and award-winning novelist Meg Gardiner about her latest book, HEAT 2, a collaboration with filmmaker Michael Mann that sequelizes and prequelizes his 1995 crime epic, HEAT, starring Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, and Val Kilmer.

Here's a link to my favorite interview with Meg Gardiner, on THE STORY BLENDER podcast:

https://www.thestoryblender.com/past-recordings/meggardiner2022

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Wherein the narrator, gabbing from his car while driving down memory lane, riffs on his last night alone, in the Little Havana apartment, plus Lemony Snicket, minimum wage, and celebrations.

Wherein the narrator buckles down and reads from his study guide for a forthcoming beer test, and digresses at will because it's very difficult and he would rather not -- it also keeps reminding him of things.