Well, hello everybody. Here we are again. Saturday just keeps happening, doesn't it? Welcome to our little corner of the podcast universe books with your host, DL White. That's me. This is the book cast my platform for sharing short fiction and updates on what I'm reading and writing. I'm an Atlanta based author of romantic fiction featuring black men and women. I'm also a big, big fan of books and the writing ass writers who write them.
So this podcast is usually book heavy unless I'm talking nonstop about something I'm writing or just have written. If you hear for the writing content, hang in there. That train is pulling into the station very, very soon. If you're new here or you're a seasoned listener, a BPH file or just looking for a good read, I hope you enjoy today's show. I'm honored to have your ears for this time. I can't wait to share my love of reading with you. Today is Saturday,
March 18th. Yesterday was St. Patrick's Day. That was fun. I have a really cute, uh, like Clover green t-shirt that I wear. It's called Saint Petty's Day, which no one ever really catches, but it's like my own private joke that I got from a good friend. Uh, Jen Jasper. She runs a t-shirt brand called God's Not Petty, but I am, and her t-shirts are hilarious. Um, I literally have to stop myself from buying a hundred dollars worth of t-shirts
every week. Any who, it's Saturday, it's March 18th, I have my coffee and I am ready to talk books. But first two things. I have uploaded new audiobook codes for Leslie's Curl Carland Die, and the Guy Next Door. Now, you know, if you are a follower, a reader, or what have you, that's book one and book three in the Potter Lake series. Book two is a holiday short. It is like a novelette. It's super short. I read that myself.
So when I do the show notes for this episode, I will put a link to the episode where I read second time around. That's book two in the Potto Lake series, but it's also a Potto Lake Short and it's too short to pay somebody to read that for audio. So, um, congratulations, you But book one is Leslie's Curl and Die, and book three is the guy next door. I have uploaded Spotify codes to that head to my website. It's books by dl white.com/codes.
Tap on the book cover of the book that you want and snag yourself a code as long as they are available. Thing number two is there's not gonna be an episode next week because it's going to actually be my birthday. Next Saturday is my birthday. I'm turning forty nine forty five, as we say, right, right. Yes. Thank you so much. Turning 49, I will not be, uh, home. I am not packing my microphone. Dl let me just tell you this to your face, to your ears. Do not pack your microphone.
I want you to get up and I want you to make some coffee, and I want you to sit out on your balcony and stare at the ocean rushing in and out. I want you to read a delightful novel. I want you to pull out your iPad and start taking notes and planning out your characters for your next release, and dig deep into this new book that you're thinking about that you're kind of excited and almost obsessed about a little bit. Don't record a podcast on your birthday past. You is telling future you
don't do it. So next week, I'm probably just gonna pop up a little throwback episode. Um, I do have some kind of filler things that I uploaded like way early in my podcast career. That sound terrible, but hey, we don't wait until it's going to be perfect. We just do it and improve upon
ourselves, right? Right. So, um, I'll throw up something next week that will be fun to listen to, um, that will, uh, post in my stead and then I will be back on Saturday, April 1st to talk about my vacation, to just brag about how much I got written, to talk about how much I read, and, uh, mostly to talk about my beach view. I am very excited. I don't know if you can tell, so let's get into the books, but first I'm gonna have a sip of coffee.
This thing alive and then it's natural Habitat is valuable to us. All righty. This week I read three books. Still a little low for me, but I'm getting better. I'm getting better. This was, um, a really a really busy week. I had two whole days away from my desk and, uh, it's just not good for my reading life, you know what I'm saying? Like work is really biting into my reading lifestyle. But I'll tell you, I read the Thinnest Air.
I listened to basically read by audio, um, the Thinnest Air by Minka Kent. Let me tell you something. If I want something that's got like some teeth and some grit to it, um, I always reach for, um, a Karen Slaughter, but I've read all of her books. Minka Kent is, um, someone I forget about often, but that woman can write her tail off. She writes a darn good book. Um, the Thinnest Air, listen to it. It was really good, really like threw me for a loop, had
me going. I love when I can't, uh, pick out the, um, I like, I can't pick out the killer. Um, the, the Twist always really throws me love a good twist. I also listen to Night Song by Ms. Beverly Jenkins. I'm having kind of an unofficial Beverly Jenkins reread era and I'm not mad at it. Um, I'm, next up for me is vivid by Ms. Beverly Jenkins. And I'm not gonna lie, I'm looking forward to it.
Then I listened to Kill Knight by Victor Mythos, and this is an author that I looked up because I wanted a legal thriller that wasn't John Grisham Hush up Dr. Raymond, because I have already read all of John Grisham's legal thrillers. Thank you so much. So I kind of bounced around looking for authors that are sort of like him. Victor Mythos is nothing like John Grisham, but I think I have read all of his past novels, and this was like a little two hour audible original as part of like a little
collection. It's not bad, it's just something to pass the time. Uh, I listened to it, . It was, it was pretty good. So that's what I got through last night. This week of course, I said I am gonna listen to Vivid by Beverly Jenkins. I also started The Buildup by Tati Richardson. This is a release, it's a romcom featuring black characters from Karina Press. I started this yesterday. I am already about 50% and loving it.
It is so li I don't want like, I don't wanna say cute because when people say my books are cute, I'm like really cute. I try not to compare my books to other people's, but y'all be reading other people and be like, oh, this book was hot. This book was grown and sexy. This book was so good. And then you listen to my books and they're cute and have an element of humor in my books and I don't really get, like, I don't really get gritty.
I don't really get down and dirty when I write my books, but sometimes I'm like, when will my books be hot? When, when will my books be grown and sexy? When like, sometimes I read my books and I blush, like, at what point do I graduate from cute to girl? This book is hot. I don't think I'm ever gonna get there because I can't catch up to Alexandria house. I ain't no Stephanie, Nicole Norris out here in these streets. I'm just saying. Anyway, the buildup, it's cute.
It is really good. It's so down to earth. It's set in Atlanta, which I love. Um, and Tati has this voice that's like, so it's very storyteller. It's easygoing. She is not yelling a book at you. She's bringing you along in the story. Um, this is really good. I hope it's gonna come out in audio. I would love to listen to it, but I have, um, an advanced reader copy, so I'm reading it. Let me just do the blurb really quick.
A truly unfortunate first day of work leads to an unexpected love in this sparkling debut from romance and color podcast co-host Tati Richardson. And I do wanna tell y'all I am gonna talk about podcast today and romance and color is on my auto listen list. Rumpled and Ragged was not how architect Ari James envisioned kicking off her first day at a new firm and few things can top the horror of her new and extremely hot colleague walking in on her at the worst moment ever.
Learning that she'll be working with him on the project that's supposed to get her career back on top makes it harder than ever to focus on her big comeback with a partnership at his firm on the line. Nothing is going to stand in the way of Porter Harrison absolutely killing it on
his new project. Not his obnoxious rival, not his unpredictable brother, and definitely not his new coworker whose gorgeous curves he accidentally saw and now can't get out of his head, though neither of them is looking for love. Once their creative juices get flowing, Ari and Porter's connection is obvious. But when their shared goal has always been winning at work, building a solid foundation for a relationship might end up costing them
everything. Ooh, them stakes is high, the stakes are high. Um, there's lots of flirting, there's some tension. There's, um, some comedy of course, because in real life people are funny in real life. Like weird things happen in real life stuff happens. And like if you don't laugh, you'll cry. This is definitely one of those books. I want you to go to your nearest pre-read mechanism and snatch this up. It's going to be a hit The Buildup by Tati Richardson.
She is also co-host on the romance in color, C o L O u R podcast. Um, that's also a super good podcast that features black authors, um, that, uh, I, I listen to every week. I am also going to pick up, uh, let me see, what else am I gonna pick up? Um, black on Black on our Resilience and Brilliance in America by Dr. Daniel Black.
Um, Dr. Black was recently, like yesterday, so Friday the 17th on books our Pop Culture, which is a podcast in a YouTube show hosted by Reggie Reeds and a black man reading aka a Aki Missouri, aka a Jared p Woods. Listen, go watch slash listen, li listen, listen to that episode. I need, I need more coffee. Dr. Black was showing out, absolutely showing out when he talks about our, our, our, our names. He talks about using
the use of the N word. He just, several times he almost threw himself off the podcast because he was just doing too much. It is such a super fun episode. It is enlightening, it is intelligent. It is resilient. It is all of the, all of the, all of the big 25 cent 50 cent piece words made me actually go and see if my library had this book and they do, but I was like, let me look up the audio book and see if I want the audio instead, because I would always rather listen to a book.
I look up this audio book and is narrated by JD JD Jackson. Now y'all know good and well, I want the audio, so I'm definitely, definitely, uh, picking this up in audio. Super excited about getting this into my face, into my ears. I don't know when I'm going to read it, but I got it from the library, so sometime in the next 21 days, but that's on the list for this week and I am checking my list to see what else I have coming up. I think. Yep, that's pretty much it.
Vivid the buildup and black on Black. Next week while I'm on vacation, I am digging into Not So Perfect Strangers by LS Stratton. Really excited about that cuz it's been, I'm gonna say about a year since I read like the really the first draft. I don't, I don't think it was the first draft. It was like the first like sort of finished draft. Here's where I'm going with this and I was really excited about it. So I have conveniently forgotten a lot of it and I'm excited to dig back
into that. And then Lone Women, uh, I think I'm gonna try to get to on vacation. I'm probably gonna try to listen to this Black on Black while I'm on vacation. And a couple other things that are popping up. No, I know what else. I was going to, um, read the Irresistible Husband series, which is a three book, uh, simultaneous release by Sharon C. Cooper, Cheryl Lister, and, um, my Good Good Girlfriend Delaney Diamond. Um, that's like a three book series.
So I always say I don't have a tbr r I deleted my TBR because there was 500, 500 books on it that I was never gonna read, but I always say is Tbr r are books I'm reading while I wait for my faves to drop a heat rock. And so I am always just reading whatever until Delaney Diamond or Sharon or Cheryl drop a book. So now my weekend is going to be full of reading. It's going to be a very romance weekend.
I'm gonna finish up the buildup today and then I'm gonna go right into the Irresistible Husband series Hold please. This is actually the second edition of the Irresistible Husband series. Um, the the first set came out in September of 2020. It was Do Me by Cheryl Lister, love Me by Delaney Diamond and show Me by
Sharon C. Cooper. And the next version is, um, marry Me by Delaney Diamond, choose Me by Cheryl Lister and Kiss Me by Sharon C. Cooper to say I'm excited to read these would be an absolute understatement. So I am digging into those this weekend. I won't get them all read this weekend, but I do wanna get them all started this weekend. Um, I'm very rarely reading, um, like 900 romance books at a time, but, um, I'm gonna dig into those and get those read at some point over, you know,
the next few weeks. Very excited about that. Happy Release Day friends. So, um, you guys should run out and, and grab that at your favorite online retail. I don't think paperbacks are available yet, but it's definitely online in ebook.
I want to talk a little bit today about podcasts because I am everyday finding a new podcast to listen to and like, I don't know how people keep track of the podcast that they listen to, but I, I literally have a spreadsheet because that's the kind of person that I am. When I post the show notes for this episode, I'll post my links. This is a list that I keep of all the podcasts that I listen to or subscribe to.
Also the YouTube channels that I watch, um, on occasion, people I'm subscribed to, mediums I'm subscribed to cks, I'm Scri subscribed to, and I just keep adding to it when I find a good one that I want to listen to. So, so I'll share that list and if you have suggestions or if you find that you are not on the list and should be, I want you on it because I, I share it so that people can find other podcasts that are relevant to what I read, what I listen to, what I watch.
And that's typically black books, books buy for about allies, books buy for about people that are all about us getting to live the same life everybody else will be living. And sometimes, you know, sometimes the book is just really gosh darn good. It's just really well written. If you're talking about a book that's just gosh darn good, I might wanna read it. It's time for me to update my spreadsheet and I'm gonna share it just because I'm not gonna
gatekeep really good podcasts. But sometime ago, I wanna say, this was when I started having a really long commute to work, I discovered podcasts. And this is just people talking about things I'm interested in. Is it money? Is it crime? Is it news business, self-help? Is it slice of life? Is it entertaining? Is it books Specifically talking about podcasts, about books, black books. I listen to, I listen to
a lot of podcasts. You guys like this, this, this spreadsheet has 110 lines to it that's including the headings, but I mean, that's like a hundred and I'm gonna say a cool a hundred lines of podcasts. YouTube shows, cks, medium blogs that I look at and I subscribe to for information, for entertainment, for content.
When I look for a new podcast these days, I'm specifically looking for black creators, black hosts, because I typically find that black creators and black hosts are talking about books that I wanna talk about, books that I want to read. And even if they aren't, they're coming at it from a perspective that I live in, that I get, that I understand. And I wanted to share some of the ones that I have on my list. Like I, I have a routine. I I am heavy into a
routine. I get up every day, I pull open my phone, I check my Facebook memories, , I check my Twitter feed to see who has replied to me in the dead of night. I check Instagram to see, um, how many bots have followed me that I need to block and remove from following me. Nothing drives me more crazy than having bots following me.
But then I pull open my, um, podcast app, and right now I'm using Overcast and I, I really like it so far and all the new podcasts that have uploaded overnight rolling at the top. And I just listen until I am out of podcasts and sometimes I find a new podcast or I find a pod that has an episode I wanna listen to, and I just add it to the list and then I kind of move them around. Um, so let's talk about what I am listening to right now.
I I just discovered a new podcast called Butt Naked Books, and I was laughing , I was laughing at this episode. I had just listened to their inaugural episode, which just launched, um, on March 16th, uh, , they said, it sounds like he's saying, Brenton said, it sounds like he's saying butt naked books. And it, it really does. It's called it's dot dot ellipses of course, but Make it Books great inaugural episode. A little intro into both of them, and then they start talking about the
books that they love. They talked about, um, cloudy with The Chance of Meatballs Home by Tony Morrison, parable of the Talents by Octavia e Butler, roll of Thunder, hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor, seven Days in June by Tia Williams, which is an amazing book, um, the Secret Lives of Church Lady The Fire This Time by James Baldwin. Um, so I was like, I'm so excited about this podcast because it's black hosts talking black books that I'd be reading black
books that I read. Um, I'm very excited because lately I feel like I'm gonna stop listening or adding podcasts to my cue that are talking about books I don't read. Like, I don't typically read romance written by authors who aren't black or who aren't of color. And, and I'm putting that in air quotes. So basically the author isn't white, it's probably somewhere near my radar. There's a lot of podcasts that talk a lot about books. I'm just not,
I'm just not reading. Um, and while I agree that like some books are just really good, I'm, you know, I I I have a finite amount of time to read and I feel like I spent so much of my life reading whatever the New York Times bestseller list handed me that now I wanna have full control over what I'm putting into my face, what I'm putting into my ears and what's driving my writing life. Now that I am an author, um, I'm responsible for what goes in between my ears and I write
black fiction. I wanna read black fiction, I wanna read black nonfiction. I wanna read authors that are, are going to speak to my experience from a learned shared experience. Um, and I just don't find a lot of that in podcasts that primarily focus on books by authors who are not black. So that's the direction I've been leaning in, but those aren't like the only podcast I listen to. For example, I really love the Categorically Romance podcast.
They do on occasion have a black author if they write category romance from Harlequin. I really enjoy this podcast even though not all of the authors are black. Of course, I listen to the Romance in Color podcast. Um, I also love the Spa Girls podcast. This is an author podcast. They, um, always have, you know, authors or people who write software or apps or useful things that
are pertinent to authors. Um, I also have just recently discovered the American Writers Museum has a podcast and they have a backlog of episodes that I really need to listen to. There's one on Octavia Butler from August, 2022. I need to listen to. There's one on Maya Angelou from two 20, um, 2021. There's one on Walter Walter Mosley from 2021.
They do have some historical ones like I listened to, um, David Blight talk about his book on Frederick Douglass a few weeks ago while I put together my standing desk. Excellent episode. Um, they also have a portion of their podcast called Dead Writer Drama, where they talk about writers who, um, have past and kind of the, like the petty drama they've been involved in. There was one episode I really enjoyed on Z Zora Neal Hurston versus Langston Hughes. That
was a really fun one. Um, I have also been listening to the Redacted History podcast. They just did one on Woodrow Wilson and his wife Edith. And how when Woodrow was sick and Edith was basically running the country, can you imagine it would never happen today? Never happen. Also am listening to the Written in Melanin podcast. Um, and I'm just rolling through what's here on my currently listening list. I've separated my podcasts on this spreadsheet by,
um, money crime news. So, um, all of your like true crime podcasts and stuff are gonna be in here. I listen to hashtag Sisters-in-law every Saturday morning. That's basically a politics podcast. One of the hosts was an attorney on the, um, was that President ? Why can't I think of that dude? Richard Nixon, she was an attorney on the, uh, Richard Nixon case. 48 Hours An American Greed, of course have podcasts. I listened to those, um, when they pop up. Um, business Wars, uh, is one from Wonder.
You haven't listened to Business Wars in a little bit cuz it's very scripted and sometimes I just like, you know, I'm, I'm more of like an American greed. I I really like mess. So I'm more of in like an American greed, American scandal kind of listener, but I keep it on the list. Dateline of course, has a podcast, um, forensic files. Scam Goddess is a fun one. Um, I have a couple that I listen used to listen to for work. Um, the ambitious Admin and the Leader Assistant podcast.
Of course y'all know I'm an executive assistant for Beverage Giant, um, located here in Atlanta. And then I have a bunch of slices of life podcasts that I listen to. Uh, I'm a big fan of Fu Ramma. So, um, another lousy Millennium goes through the entire Futur Ramma series episode by episode. Absolutely loved it. I did hear that Fu Rama was releasing a new season and they are recording now, y'all, I'm looking at my bobbleheads on my desk.
I have NSYNC Bobbleheads and can you tell me why JC Shaza is turned around and he's looking out the window? Excuse me. Hey sir, I don't know. I don't know how this happened cuz I am the only person that's ever in this room, but he is literally turned around. So I moved him. So now he's paying attention to me. I swear I am sane. I love anything from Wondery. The Dr. Death podcast, um, is really good. The Dr Death series, this is actually Happening, is a
harrowing podcast to listen to. Um, it's ge generally firsthand accounts of people have who have gone through trauma. Um, code switch from n p is a good one. Death, sex and Money is a never, ever, ever Miss. Speaking of Never Miss. Also the Stacks book book podcast is a never mix, never Miss Books or pop culture is also a never Miss Frontline. I would prefer to watch Frontline on YouTube. Maintenance of a and, um, if these books Could Kill are also great podcasts.
I have like so many podcasts on this list. I don't wanna go through all of them because it will just, it, this podcast will be hours long but terrible. Thanks for asking us. Also a Never Miss. I love that show. The Black Guy who Tips three guys on. I I am a member of the Patreon Gang Gang and so that's the podcast that I listen to every Saturday afternoon.
I just kind of sit in the comments I watch while they record the podcast, participate in the conversation, always a fun time, unacceptable Behavior by Jason Graham is a fellow writer and, um, he has a great podcast that he talks about, you know, relationships and um, also writing books. Then I have a list of writing books and blogs. Um, a whole bunch of helpful ones here, if that's what you're looking for. I love, um, of course the Spa Girls Self-Publishing Insiders.
Six Figure Authors was a really good podcast that ended, uh, last summer. They don't have any new episodes, but they have a super good backlog if you've never listened to them before. Between The Reads is my favorite book podcast. Um, never Ever Missed Black and Published is a new one that I have started listening to Black books or pop culture. Of course, brazenly Shady just released a new episode the other day. I haven't got a chance to
look at listen to it. Um, crime Writers of Color is, uh, crime fiction or interviews with crime fiction authors who are, uh, of color, excellent podcast hosted by Robert Justice, who is also an author. You wanna grab his debut novel. They can't take your name. The audio book is voiced by JD Jackson, if you know what I'm saying. It's a great book. Um, Delaney Diamond Presents has a monthly podcast with, um, the, the, they pick a book of the month in her reader's lounge
author. Um, I was on that, um, I'll pop that up. One of these, uh, weeks here for a throwback Thursday episode. Faded Mates is always really fun. Um, what Society is a Fun podcast? Stephanie Norris, that's an author podcast. She just, when she updates she talks about, you know, what she's writing, um, what's coming up from her peach reading with as, um, I was also on this podcast.
It was, um, fabulous. Um, real Ballers Reid is a podcast hosted by men, I believe they're brothers if I'm recalling correctly. Pretty good podcast Sisters in Crime. Staying on Code is a brand new podcast hosted by Adra Russell, who also hosts Between the Reids. Staying On Code is, um, using nonfiction books to talk about black, how we engage in conversations about being black. Um, I am looking up the description right now cuz I am not going to disrespect Masis Audra about the show.
Staying On Code is dedicated to uplifting the black race host. Audra Russell uses non-fiction books written by and or about people of the African diaspora to inspire candid discussions about being black in America. Guests run the gamut from authors and book influencers to bookstore owners and community leaders. So, um, it's been super good, very educational and informational so far. So, um, definitely add that to your podcast Roundup. They're also on YouTube.
So then I have some cks that I have been subscribed to Aggressively Wide, which I talked about last week. Ronnie Laurens happy for now and her new podcast is for authors. Um, the name of it escapes me, but I'm gonna add it to this list and look forward to it in the show notes. SAE Jones has a work in progress, um, and I think every Friday his dog Caesar does a post. And I live, I live for Caesar content because there's a person inside that dog,
I'm pretty sure. Um, Caesar Cesar is a person. Um, Robert Jones has a subset called Witness. I super miss Robert on social media, but witness is a way that we can still hear his voice, um, I guess really through writing and I get his perspective. And then the Rand Stack is, um, one of my friend's writer, Randolph Terrence, uh, writer comedian really starting up his, uh, ck and getting in some writing. Um, a book is coming, I hope eventually at some point My medium subscriptions are pretty short.
Dr. Raymond Williams has Ballasts for the Mind. You wanna subscribe to that. And then my, my friend Nia Forrester has a medium blog that she updates super infrequently. And then I have a long list, well not long, it's about, I don't know, 20 YouTube channels, set all that to say I'm gonna be going
through and updating my list. So, uh, bookmark, if you have podcast that you listen to or podcast that you host got a podcast idea and it's about to launch, let me know and I'll add it to my list because this is a Alyssa, I make public. This is what I'm listening
to. This is, you know, podcast that I have found to be interesting or n noteworthy and I just kind of wanna keep a good list of pods that are good pods that focus on books by four about black authors, black characters, black lives, black fiction. So probably gonna spend some time maybe this week or next updating that list so that it's current. Phew. Well I just rambled on and on about things. Hopefully that wasn't annoying or confusing. Trying to think. So I don't miss anything because I don't
have an episode next week. I can't, I can't come back and be like, Hey, I forgot. I think I covered everything y'all. So it's 9 54. I got that out in under an hour. It's only gonna take me another hour to edit , thank you for joining me for another episode of the Book Cast. Again, as a reminder, I'll be on on vacation next weekend. I have promised slash ordered myself to not pack my microphone. I will not spend time in Audacity audit, editing audio to upload.
I will not be at bus sprout scheduling an episode to run. I will probably pop something up, uh, like a throwback episode for you guys to listen to. So that'll be fun. I will spend some time planning and writing, so please enjoy this weekend. Have a superlative two weeks and I'll see you back here on Saturday April 1st. No fooling. I really wrote that down to say no fooling cuz get April 1st, whatever. I'm funny, you know, a podcast I didn't mention that I totally need to.
Otherwise I am going to shun myself the Frosted Tips podcast from Lance Bass. Here's the whole reason that I looked at my bobbleheads and I noticed that JC was not listening to me and so I had to turn him around because I was gonna mention the Frosted Tips podcast at Lance Bass and then I got distracted. So Lance Baz has had, I think this podcast started in January.
Maybe he has been having boy Banders or former boy banders on the podcast to talk all about their lives before, during, and after being in a boy band. It has become one of my favorite things about Monday morning, a new podcast this week he had an extra with Debbie Gibson. I can't describe the love I used to have for Debbie Gibson. I was all about some Debbie Gibson fantastic episode. Monday's episode was with Johnny Gill from New Edition.
It's just been, it's been fun. Uh, there's a couple people on like Joel McKay, I guess he's from Glee. I don't know that guy. I didn't listen to that episode. I'm sorry Lance. But all the other ones I have been all up in it. There's guys, um, he recently had the remaining member of L f O on to, he was talking about Rich and Devin and meeting Lou Pearlman and like all that stuff. If you're not in boy band land, you have no idea what I'm talking about.
But if you are in boy band Land, I am sure you're like, oh my goodness, I have got to listen to that podcast. You've got to listen to the podcast. The first episode is with JC Shaa. Need I say more probab. But um, that was a fantastic episode. I think the second episode was with Joy Tone also from nsync. So dip it up, listen to that. Lance is also voicing the Last Soviet, which is all about this cosmonaut that I guess got stuck in space while there was some Cold War going
on. Um, he is a cosmonaut, so he was going to go into space during the last, um, NSYNC hiatus and something happened and he wasn't able to go. But now he is, um, talking about his experiences. This last episode is his experience of being chosen to go into space and his training. He had to have heart surgery to be able to be eligible to go up into space. Ended up not going, which really sucks. But I'm a love in the podcast. Seriously, I'm done. That's all I have for you.
Thank you so much for dragging yourself through this episode or really enjoying the episode, whichever your perspective is. I am off to get into my books to edit this episode, to enjoy my coffee and my Saturday The Sun's finally out. It's not raining in Atlanta anymore. And I am happy. Thank you so much for joining me. I appreciate your ears. I appreciate your time. I appreciate you listening to this podcast. We'll talk soon.