Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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The dust shack is all the way off on this week's overdue unplug your bookmarks get ready for over two. The raw cut of this episode has footage to dots we've shown in theaters how do they cram footage into an audio podcast? We'll be reading zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance i'm about to almost halfway through right now and it is not the book i expected so buckle up i get or no it's a motorcycle so don't buckle up yeah they don't have to get on the bike and go right for next weekall right everybody we will see you then until then try to be happyso like andrew what is the setup of this book what the

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