Wherein the narrator apparently has a lot on his mind, cuz he starts off the recording by trying to do a quick correction of something he recorded the day before, but ends up riffing, for like fifteen minutes, about basically not knowing what to do now that he's not working on a book.

Wherein the narrator, drinking by himself while reading about the mysterious ~President's Daily Briefing~, took the ill-advised initiative of emailing the CIA and asking to borrow one.

**Bonus Reading**

"What is the PDB?":

https://www.intelligence.gov/publics-daily-brief/presidents-daily-brief

Wherein the narrator takes a few minutes to bask in the way-overdue completion of the book he started writing, and obsessing over, almost exactly one year ago, CUBAFRUIT.

Wherein the narrator riffs about the ideas of "game" philosopher C. Thi Nguyen, and makes a drunken decision about the Jack Reacher book he's pressured himself into reading.

NGUYEN ON EZRA KLEIN SHOW: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/25/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-c-thi-nguyen.html

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Wherein the narrator riffs in no particular direction, starting off with Putin's invasion of Ukraine, traversing it quickly, and then moseying in what sounds, looking back, like just a desperate ramble, trying not to be panicked. Subjects covered: the biggest fan of the Ninja Turtles, the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre, how hatred is made a kind of convenience.

Wherein the narrator considers the societal (sorta) and personal ramifications of having things so readily and abundantly available: chicken and pornography being the two big ones.

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Wherein the narrator talks about the frustrating/heartbreakingly ridiculous lies that men tell him while he's tending bar.

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Wherein the narrator gets really frustrated with takeout orders--but also emboldened by the chutzpah of a dude who places a huge order, says he wants it for free, and RECIEVES it; whereupon the narrator attempts this magic himself.

Wherein the narrator talks about his obsession with James Joyce's impossibly complex novel Finnegans Wake, which is a 700-page tome written almost entirely in puns, and about his obsession with other writers who are obsessive: Mark Z. Danielewski, Michael Chabon, and Robert Caro.

Wherein the narrator chimes in to say his book is almost done, and that the proper new slate of episodes will begin next week, but ends up riffing and getting himself way more worked up than he intended.

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