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Hey, folks, it is Nate.
Before we get started, I want to ask you to consider two things.
I'm talking to you today at kind.
Of a pivotal moment in the history.
Of this history project that you know as the Memory Palace.
Here's the first one.
On November 19th, I have a book.
Coming out, and I am delighted about that.
For years, I have wanted to collect the sorts of stories that I do in this podcast in a book, like something that you can hold in your hands, give as a gift, and something that could live on your shelf.
As a kid, I grew up loving these old paperback collections of Ripley's Believe it or not, also things like where the Sidewalk Ends, the poetry book by Shel Silverstein.
It's collections of short pieces that you could turn to again and again.
You could find new things every time you took it off the shelf and maybe find that they connect differently this.
Time now that you're that little bit.
Older or a little bit changed since last time you read it.
And I want to make one of those books, you know, but for adults that might have a little bit of that same magic.
And I'm excited now to see that if that magic trick works.
And so I am here today, days before its release on November 19, to encourage you to order the book, to help it jump out of the gate with some momentum so other readers might find it, especially people who don't listen to the show like you do.
So that is thing one and thing two is deeply related.
This show, book or no book, successful book or flop, will go on.
And it will go on, thanks to listeners like you.