Dads on Books

Music 0:01
(I'm Mike Walker.) I'm David Patrick. We are DADS on Books!

DADS ON BOOKS! Two minutes later! But, we're DADS on Books. We're addicted to books, we sit on books, and we even talk about books. Welcome to another episode of… DADS ON BOOKS!

Mike 0:22
Hi, I'm Mike,

David 0:23
and I'm David...

Mike 0:23
And this is DADS ON BOOKS!

David 0:30
Grrrrrrrr.

Mike 0:31
Someday, we'll have a really cool audio master of our intro that's on every time, and until then, you'll just get us being Cookie.

David 0:42
And we'll also hire like, a voiceover talent, an orchestra, and…

Mike 0:47
I want a trumpet, because that's what I played when I was a kid. Well, I actually've been playing a trumpet forever, although, sometimes it's 10 years in between playing. But every time I pick it up, it's so funny. It's really like riding a bike.

David 1:01
Well!

Mike 1:02
Yeah. It's kind of Kookie.

David 1:03
If what

Mike 1:04
That's

David 1:04
you're—

Mike 1:04
my word this week is kookie, so...

David 1:08
And what you're saying is, if I pick up a Zither, which I've not played in about 40 years, it'll be just like I never put it

Mike 1:15
Absolutely.

David 1:15
down.

Mike 1:18
I'm trying to think of something catchy to say about a Zither, and I can't think of anything, because it's

David 1:26
Because...

Mike 1:26
already kookie.

David 1:28
And it does it rhyme with Hither, so there's nothing you can say.

Mike 1:31
You're

so... David Patrick.

David 1:37
Since 1967.

Mike 1:39
Well, thanks for coming and visiting us at the dad's on book studio. I'm outside of Chicago in River Forest. David's in Dallas, Texas. But really in

David 1:51
Keller.

Mike 1:51
Keller,

David 1:52
Texas. Keller, Texas, outside of Fort Worth near Dallas.

Mike 1:56
Yeah, so DFW is nearby. Maybe, uh, Lovefield. Is that still a thing?

David 2:01
Lovefield is a thing, but I'm actually about 20 minutes from DFW Airport.

Mike 2:05
Okay, cool. I know where I'll fly into

David 2:07
them. I'll pick

Mike 2:08
you up. Cool, and then we'll discuss a book. Kind of like this book that we read this week. By Louis Sachar, do you think that's how he says it?

David 2:18
I was hearing Sachar.

Mike 2:20
That I was too. I was like, I don't have a Sachar, Sachar. I had like 15 different ways to say it. So those are two of them. And then Louis, but could be Louis don't people say that sometimes?

David 2:36
They do, but only like in New Orleans and France.

Mike 2:39
Oh, okay,

David 2:40
So I'm gonna go with Louis because he's

Mike 2:42
Louis.

David 2:42
from Long Island and lives in Austin. So

Mike 2:44
yeah, that's a big jump too.

David 2:46
Yeah, that is.

Mike 2:46
Yeah. So this week we are reading or we read the sideways stories from Wayside School. Which on the cover of this new berry metal winning, author of holes book. It says watch Wayside School on TV, which we did not do, but maybe that'll be in Dad's on TV in, you know, five years when we

David 3:11
Expand our media empire.

Mike 3:13
Yes.

So when I picked this book, it was because I remember Ruby reading it. And I just thought I had no idea looking at the cover. What in the world is this about? And why is my kid laughing out loud in the back seat of the car?

David 3:32
Oh, wow.

Mike 3:33
So I was like, you know what? Maybe this is a good one for the podcast. So that is what led us to Wayside Schools.

David 3:41
And I had never heard of it. My kids never read it. I never read it. I think I was too old already. Or I was actually right at the target audience when it was published. But I have never heard of it my entire life. I just thought I'm going to trust Mike. And can I tell you my first impression?

Mike 3:56
Absolutely.

David 3:58
I loved it.

Mike 4:00
Well, that doesn't sound like a first impression.

David 4:03
no, but it was. No, what? Yeah,

Mike 4:05
Okay.

David 4:05
okay, you're right.

Mike 4:06
Okay,

David 4:06
Yeah, no.

We'll get more into the the content later. But I just I can't help it. I've been sitting on my hands for 10 minutes waiting to say that.

Actually, four minutes and 49 seconds. But still

Mike 4:20
that's funny. Well, tell us some of your thoughts. Even if they weren't just the first impression of picking up the book and going, why does that woman have a snake tongue?

David 4:30
uh, yeah, exactly. And so we have the same copy, uh, so as you're describing the cover, mine's exactly the same. And I, I just, I saw all kinds of weird stuff and I just, I didn't look at it too much. I just now noticed a fourth tongue, and now that I'm looking at the cover, I'm like, oh yeah, that was this story. Oh, I remember that one. I just looked at and thought, this is weird. I'm, I'm jumping in.

Mike 4:51
Yeah.

David 4:52
But I also got the book like two days ago.

Mike 4:54
Cool.

David 4:55
And for those of you who've listened to all of our episodes, and I know that all of you have, Mike and I decided after the last episode, which was the book with no pictures, let's actually get a book aimed at a little bit of an older audience. And I just also, for the first time noticed, on the back of this book, in tidy print, it says ages 8 to 12. So this is a chapter book, and there are some pictures, but it took me a while to read it. And once I picked it up, I couldn't put it down. It's just so crazy and wacky and goofy, and you just don't know where it's going to go. And when you think you do,

Mike 5:29
No.

David 5:29
you got another thing coming, see?

Mike 5:31
Yeah.

David 5:31
And I also have two and a half pages of notes.

So don't worry, kids, for you listening at home, I am not going to cover all the notes.

Mike 5:40
No, you're not.

David 5:41
Just loved

Mike 5:42
it because we have like we got to keep the short.

David 5:44
I keep it moving, kids.

Mike 5:45
You know, yeah. So I agree. I only knew about it because of Ruby,

David 5:51
Mm hmm.

Mike 5:52
and I had seen it before, and I was like, Oh, you know what? That's a weird cover. And I'm like, that's a lot of stuff happening there. I'm not sure what's happening. So I just jumped right in as well. And the first story about Mrs. Goreff, I was like, Oh, okay, this is, this is starting out intriguing.

David 6:15
I wrote the word dark.

Mike 6:17
Yes. Yes.

David 6:18
And I wrote it later.

Mike 6:19
That first story is very dark, but I mean, that's kind of what draws you in is like, Oh, there's conflict right away.

David 6:29
Yeah.

Mike 6:30
Like, oh, my gosh, like what's going to happen next?

David 6:33
Well, yeah, exactly. And now that I'm listening to us talk about it, my first impression was, wow, this is dark, but it was also silly at the same time.

Mike 6:42
Absolutely.

David 6:42
So it didn't scare me. I trusted the author, and then it was literally many, many chapters later is when I thought, Wow, it is not as dark as that first chapter. I remembered it.

Mike 6:55
Yes, totally, totally. And it's interesting. You say that because I had done a little bit of research.

David 7:02
Okay.

Mike 7:03
After reading it, although I also only finished it yesterday, but I had started it maybe a week or two ago, when we first started talking about it. And when I finished it, I was like, okay, I've got some time to kind of dig in and see what other people thought. And there is a set of people who I don't know if they actually read the whole book, but they said the same thing. Like, it's just really dark. And they referenced the first page or two of the book. And I'm like, but, yeah, it's dark, but it draws you in at its and ridiculous.

David 7:45
And one of the things I've always felt about any movie or TV show or book is it has to be realistic within the genre that it defines itself or is in.

Mike 7:55
Absolutely.

David 7:56
And this book is perfect with that.

Mike 7:58
Yes.

David 7:58
I did some research too. And I did. So my timeframe was a lot different years as I said, I got the book about two days ago. I read the book in two days. And I usually, our trend has been, I don't like to do research. I don't want to know anything about it. And I certainly don't want to know people's opinions, but I was curious about the author and I did some research

Mike 8:17
tell me more.

David 8:18
So he is from Long Island. He went to Berkeley for college, so across the country. And this is in the mid seventies. And he was offered. If you go be the assistant to a preschool teacher, you're going to get a class credit for it. And he thought, well, cool. I don't have to study or read or take an exam and I'm saving money because you know, back then it was like 30, 40 bucks, I think, for a credit hour. So

Mike 8:44
yeah.

David 8:45
Yeah. You know, but

anyway. And the names are the same people, the same kids from his class, but not the stories. None of it. He said, I have a pretty boring life. I had to create all that.

Mike 8:58
which totally makes sense because yeah like I'm sure there were some funny stories but it's funny to you when it's happening

David 9:07
Mm hmm.

Mike 9:07
but then when you think about it's like, oh I don't know if anybody else will think that's funny but I can craft that in a way or take the idea of something and make it into something that is intriguing and really meaty for someone to read.

David 9:26
Yes, that's a great way of putting it any creates this entire world, and I absolutely love when someone creates a world that I want to see what's happening I want to be in. I want to be a part of and that's what he did and one of the things I was thinking about this is there's so many great details and examples, but you know me I used to not go to movie trailers I don't want to know anything ahead of time and there's even a chapter in this where. There are very few illustrations maybe one for each chapter at the chapter heading there's at least one of them where that illustration blows the ending for you

Mike 10:00
which one wasn't.

David 10:01
don't want to give it away to our listeners if they're people listening to this who have not read the book but I will say it if you don't want if you really don't want to know don't listen for the next 15 seconds

Music 10:13
I

David 10:13
it's Terrence. He's the kid who likes to kick the ball out all the time, because there is a whole page where they were talking about oh they ran out of balls I know what I can kick I know what I can kick I know when I can kick. The picture shows the kid flying out of the park so you know they're going to kick him but if you're reading it and you don't know that it's that classic oh my gosh I want to find out what are they going to kick when are they going to kick oh the kick him.

Mike 10:38
Yeah so I don't think I looked at the pictures when I was reading it and I want to say that that was a conscious choice, but I think it was more of I just want to get to the next story because I have to finish this book in the beginning and then it was like who cares about the picture I have this is fun.

David 10:59
yeah so

Mike 11:00
I just want to get to the story and not worry about the picture but now that you say that yeah that but all of them have a little bit of that in them maybe the cool thing is reading the stories and then going back and looking at the pictures and seeing how it kind of fits in with the story.

David 11:17
Yeah yeah yeah that might be a good thing to do with the book that isn't a picture book and is it all about the illustrations.

Mike 11:23
Yeah

David 11:24
I think books for younger kids sometimes the artist is more important than the person who tells the story

Mike 11:31
almost yeah

David 11:31
you know

Mike 11:32
because it really it sets so much of the tone

David 11:35
yeah.

Mike 11:36
And in this the tone is completely set in words.

David 11:40
Exactly but there's so many things I love about this book and Mike and I have already picked our book for the next episode

Mike 11:48
indeed we did.

David 11:49
Yes we did because we're planners and on top of it and stuff

Mike 11:53
and I finished it

David 11:54
yesterday

Mike 11:55
started it yesterday

David 11:57
you finish it

Mike 11:58
I finished it

David 11:59
good for you

Mike 12:00
I stayed up to the wee hours

David 12:02
I saw you post and stuff at like 12 15 am

Mike 12:05
yep

David 12:06
saw that you're doing your

Mike 12:08
I

David 12:08
homework

Mike 12:08
was

David 12:08
good for you that makes one of us okay can you cut that out.

No that the point is I will talk more about this in the next episode how Mike chose this

book and I chose the next book and they are actually you really similar. I chose the next book before I read this book and I was literally walking in my girls rooms going oh yeah this one but I have no idea what I was going to say but.

Mike 12:34
Book 'em Davo

(musical interlude and dance break)

David 12:42
again there are so many great jokes and so many details in this book and I don't want to mention many of them because I want people to. I don't want to take the experience but I will say this I know where I was going okay this book and you would you said this before I read it you said that it is one book but they're all kind of separate vignettes. And not really spoiler spoiler alert there's basically one for each kid in this classroom but it is one classroom it's one school and it's very consistent one of the things he does in this that I love. Is he will do a call back to someone else and something that happened to them that we read but he doesn't bang you over the head with it

Mike 13:23
yes

David 13:24
there's one where there's a particular person who is missing her to front teeth.

Mike 13:29
Rondee and I didn't even have to look that up

David 13:33
man I'm impressed dude by the way you're welcome I I put that out there for you so you can show the audience how smart

Mike 13:40
you are. Thanks I'm so

David 13:41
smart you're so smart But, uh, he, he, he mentions Rondee in a later chapter, and he doesn't say things like, "Hey, remember, she's the one who's missing, he just says, and Rondee who's missing two front teeth."

Mike 13:56
yeah.

David 13:56
and he keeps going". It's subtle, but it's there, and it's just really cool.

Yes.

Mike 14:13
And you're like, "Oh! Right, the girl with no teeth".

David 14:16
Yes,

Mike 14:16
Sorry,

David 14:17
exactly.

Mike 14:17
no front teeth, but I

David 14:18
Yeah, yeah, yeah. She's not gummy, she's Rondee.

Mike 14:20
Right.

David 14:21
And there's another thing that I do want to mention that I wrote down that really I thought was very cool. As silly, and wacky, and kooky as this book is, there are a few moments of deepness and profoundity or whatever the name is for profound.

Mike 14:38
Profondity?

David 14:39
Profondity?

Mike 14:40
it, it, it, found

David 14:40
It, it, it,

Mike 14:41
that,

David 14:41
it,

Mike 14:41
uh, yeah. Go on.

David 14:43
That's the one. It violates the Seinfeld rule.

Mike 14:46
Which is?

David 14:47
Seinfeld was no hugging, no learning.

Mike 14:49
Well, we can't hug because it's a podcast and we're in different cities.

David 14:52
And I can't hug people in the book. But the point is, in this book, there's some learning.

Mike 14:56
Absolutely.

David 14:57
And one of my favorite examples of this is there's one episode where this one girl does something really bad and she does not get caught, which is not coming in this book. And as you're reading it, you realize, okay, I'm finishing reading it. I see a three line paragraph, not even, it's barely a paragraph. And is she gonna, she's not going to get caught because there's no way. And all it says is she was happy because of what she did and it said, but for the rest of the year, she couldn't stop thinking about what she had done and that was it.

Mike 15:30
Yeah.

David 15:30
And I literally was like, wow, that was really cool the way he did that.

Mike 15:34
Absolutely.

The one that I want to draw attention to and actually it was, then he saw Rondee's toothless grin. It's about DJ and the last line I'm going to read. I hope this doesn't break copy of the right laws.

David 15:51
Make it less than seven words. I think you're fine.

Mike 15:53
It's, oh, it's more than seven words.

David 15:56
Okay, you're fine.

Mike 15:57
DJ looked up at him. He said, you need a reason to be sad. You don't need a reason to be happy.

David 16:04
Oh,

Mike 16:05
and it's after this, you know, a few pages of him just smiling. And everyone's like, why are you smiling? And he just goes on smiling.

David 16:15
And it makes somebody

Mike 16:17
Yeah.

David 16:17
mad.

Mike 16:18
And then you're like, oh, yeah, that is so, so cool. You need a reason to be sad. You don't need a reason to be happy. I love it.

David 16:27
That's awesome. And in addition to being such great advice, that is something that one of these kids would say. You know?

Mike 16:33
Yeah. Because they're that age where they say profound things that

David 16:37
Yeah.

Mike 16:37
you're like, how did you do that, you haven't you don't know anything

David 16:43
You don't.

Mike 16:43
stupid kids.

David 16:44
I have. Yeah. No, I love that about kids because they're young enough. They're old enough to come up with something like that, but young enough to not know that it's profound. It's

Mike 16:54
Right.

David 16:54
just

Mike 16:55
They

David 16:55
it's

Mike 16:55
just say things and you're like, oh my gosh, that is just

David 16:58
awesome.

Mike 16:59
crazy. But I do love the stories in this. It's so whacky.

David 17:06
Yes.

Mike 17:07
Oh, wait. kookie. It's kookie. But what I really love about it is kind of the surreal world that it's in. I read when I was doing research, someone said something about it being like a celebration of the surreal and it's akin to Vonnegut and Kafka. And I started thinking, oh, yeah, this is kind of a great lead into that world of just surrealist writing that is, you know, kookie.

David 17:43
Absolutely. Well, and it is he creates a parallel universe here. It's a parallel world.

Mike 17:49
Yes.

David 17:49
And there's something

Mike 17:50
school is 30 stories high with 30 classrooms.

David 17:55
Yes.

Mike 17:55
It was supposed to be one floor of 30 classrooms, but they built it wrong.

David 18:00
Yes. Oh, I'm glad you brought that up.

Mike 18:02
Cracks me up.

David 18:02
And the builder said, oh, I'm sorry.

There's no lawsuit. It was just, oh, sorry,

Mike 18:10
my bad.

David 18:11
And what's cool to get into language, my girls like will be driving in the car and we'll see some weird building. Like I say, do you think the builders did blah, blah, blah? Like, I'm like, wait a second. They've not read this book. They call them the builders.

Mike 18:24
Right.

David 18:25
There's just like the builders and he said the builder apologized.

Mike 18:29
That's.

David 18:30
I just thought it's hilarious. I love it. There was another word thing that I thought was hilarious. Oh, I know what it was. Generally speaking, you know, this book was written in 1978

Mike 18:38
Yep.

David 18:39
or published in 1978 and he wrote it based on his experience in college of this pre K class. I think today's kid books, correct me if I'm wrong, authors are kind of a not, they may be they're almost afraid to have a good guy someone you're stupid.

Mike 18:54
Yeah.

David 18:55
But these kids do that.

Mike 18:57
Yeah.

David 18:57
And it's not mean. It's not ugly. It's just realistic.

Mike 19:01
I agree.

David 19:02
But they're realistic. They're realistic. And I noticed it a few different times. Someone you're that's stupid. You're dumb. And there's no, "Oh, don't say that. That's mean." They don't the teacher doesn't even say that a lot necessarily

Mike 19:13
what

David 19:13
because

Mike 19:13
she

David 19:14
that's

Mike 19:14
comes in calling a monkeys.

David 19:16
Exactly.

Mike 19:17
Put another great surreal whatever surrealistic moment. When she comes in and just starts like a class of monkeys, I was like, whoa, that's like where are you going with this one? And it was like, oh, this is great because she just really got those kids interested in how kooky she was.

David 19:44
Mm-hmm. Well, and it was also our buddy Louis's way of getting us.

Mike 19:49
Uh-huh.

David 19:49
And telling us the audience, how kooky this is going to be, because what you just said is like the opening lines of chapter two.

Mike 19:56
Yeah.

David 19:56
So after he finished chapter one and go, my god, is this the original Grimm's fairytales where spoiler alert.

Mike 20:02
Everyone dies.

David 20:03
Consulate Gretel get eaten by the witch. In case you haven't read that, 400 year old thing.

So sorry, spoiler alert.

Mike 20:12
My bad.

David 20:12
But, um, yeah. So you didn't spoil our alert, because what you gave away was like the first line of chapter two. And it's like, oh, okay, good. Not going to be dark like this. We're going to be just fine. Everybody calm down.

Mike 20:24
Yeah. yeah.

David 20:26
So

Mike 20:27
Um, so I would really like

to discuss chapter 19.

David 20:33
Okay. Now again, I know you're talking about that looking at my notes. But how much do we want to discuss chapter 19 without blowing anything for our audience who was not read this book?

Mike 20:45
No. So Jenny came to school. We're now on chapter 25.

David 20:53
I see what you did there. Brilliant.

Mike 20:55
Thanks.

David 20:56
Chapter 25.

Mike 20:57
Jenny came to school on the back for Father's motorcycle.

David 21:00
Oh, yeah. I love that one.

Mike 21:02
It's so funny, because you're sitting there reading, and it's all of five pages. Oh, really, only four.

David 21:09
it's

Mike 21:09
Uh,

David 21:09
actually long for this book.

Mike 21:10
Yeah. And you're like, oh, man, what is going on? What? What the heck? And then it ends with sort of a surprise ending that you're like, oh, my God. Why did I not see that coming?

David 21:25
Yes, because the surprise ending is like the most obvious thing in the world.

Mike 21:29
Yes.

David 21:29
Exactly. And it's, it's what you think might be. Ah, yeah, I love that one.

Mike 21:33
Yeah.

David 21:34
What did I wrote? What did I wrote?

Mike 21:40
Love

David 21:41
it. It reminded me. I think I saw one of the matrix movies, but I don't remember much about them. But those guys coming in the way they were. I

Mike 21:50
was like, totally, I thought the same thing.

Mr. Anderson.

David 21:56
I was like, it's the matrix,

Music 21:58
the

David 21:58
guys.

Mike 22:00
It was right there with you.

David 22:02
And again, this is before the matrix.

Mike 22:03
Yeah.

David 22:04
This was 1978.

Mike 22:05
Oh, so

David 22:05
he wrote this.

Mike 22:06
the people who did the matrix probably read this book

David 22:09
Well,

Mike 22:10
and based the whole series of movies off of chapter 25. Right?

David 22:16
Yeah.

Mike 22:17
Yeah. Yeah. Jenny.

David 22:18
Jenny, that was the one where I probably felt most, uh, I forgot if it's sympathetic or empathetic with the character.

Mike 22:25
Yeah.

David 22:25
Like, there were a lot of them because of the wacky stuff. But for her, I really felt like, like, I would have a knot in my stomach and go, okay, what the heck is going on? You know what I mean?

Mike 22:35
Yeah, absolutely.

David 22:36
That was, that was a brilliant chapter. That was so good.

Mike 22:38
I'm actually looking back to see if there was something that, um, I think it was like the two men were in the room. Oh, no. Maybe there was one man in the room that two men walked in. But it was like, I just heard him say... Mr. Anderson

David 23:00
the person comes in "Does she know?" Asked the newcomer.

that's a whole sci-fi novel.

Music 23:11
*laughs*

David 23:13
In a world, where the newcomer doesn't know if she knows...

wow. Thanks for recommending this book.

Mike 23:21
So much

David 23:22
I

Mike 23:22
fun.

David 23:22
don't know, I'm a page or 2 in, I'm like, "I'm so buying this." Because I got this from Keller Library, but it's on loan from the Decatur Library.

Decatur? Decatur? Yeah, not Georgia. There's a

Mike 23:35
Oh,

David 23:35
Decatur.

Mike 23:36
'Ducatur'. I thought you said 'tucatur'.

David 23:39
*laughs*

Mike 23:40
Cater, you cater brought her.

David 23:42
No, Cater is the name of the girl, Chapter 31.

Mike 23:45
Oh.

David 23:45
Cater.

Mike 23:46
Yes, Chapter 31, book 2.

David 23:49
Exactly.

Mike 23:50
But there are actually, I believe, five, five total books. So four sequels to this book, I believe.

David 23:57
I have three listed in the back of mind, but maybe there was a fourth, and this was republished before the 5th or I don't know.

Mike 24:04
But I think I read somewhere, there was one more, but it's just, it's a kooky, kooky world at wayside school.

David 24:16
It is. And I wrote in Redpin first book. I really wish I had read to my kids when they were younger. First meaning of the books that we've done that you've introduced to me. Then I wrote in green. It's 'Nair Too Late'. When is it too late? 'Nair'. And then I looked the back and it said ages 8 to 12, I'm like I got a 10 year old or 12 year old,

Mike 24:40
Get

David 24:40
so get

Mike 24:41
on

David 24:41
on

Mike 24:41
it!

David 24:41
it! No, but I'm gonna read these with my girls.

Mike 24:43
But, make them pass it around, and everybody read a chapter.

David 24:47
Oh, that's brilliant!

Mike 24:49
That's the great thing is that these chapters are so short.

David 24:52
Yeah.

Mike 24:53
That's what I really loved about it because I was like looking at it, it's kind of thick, you know? The art of war.

At 124 pages.

I was like, "Oh, I gotta get through this." And then I noticed... Chapters were really short, and I'm like, "Oh, that's great, because usually when I read something, I get sucked into it." And I can't put it down. This is perfect because you can read a chapter, and okay done with that, because it wraps it up and the next story is gonna be something new, so I can totally close the book, go to sleep, wake up the next day, do my thing, and then I'm not like all night going, "Oh, I've gotta read the- Oh, what's gonna happen at the end of the chapter?"

Yeah, so I think it's a great thing for kids to read out loud. It'd be awesome, yeah.

David 25:50
Well, at the first, I'm like, "I should go to Amazon." No, I've got two, not one, but two local bookstores that I love.

Mike 25:57
Nice.

David 25:58
And if they don't have them, I won't order them from them.

Mike 26:01
Awesome.

David 26:02
So, Mike, thanks again, I love that you brought me into this world, it's just a great book.

Mike 26:08
And thank you Ruby for bringing us both into this world, because it is just cookie.

David 26:16
Okay, okay. Okay, thanks, Ruby.

Mike 26:19
So, thanks for listening to Dad's on books.

David 26:22
Dad's on books.

Happy reading, everybody!

Mike 26:27
And remember, if you'd like to send us email, you can find us at DadsOnBooks@gmail.com

David 26:36
And we do read every single one of our emails that comes in every day, the one email per day, we read them.

Mike 26:43
Yes, we've gotten one so far.

David 26:46
Who is it from, Mike?

Mike 26:47
Thanks, Mom.

David 26:51
Keep them coming, people, I'm bored.

Mike 26:53
Yeah.

David 26:56
See you next week, kids.

Mike 26:58
Happy reading.

David 26:59
Happy reading.

Mike 27:01
Mr. Anderson.